Scripts and Script Typefaces and Back Again
with
Carl Rohrs
Script typefaces can start as calligraphy, a quick sketch or a dashed-off handwritten note. Let's look at some scripts' beginnings. Once it becomes a face, is that the end of its creative trail? Can't it still inspire more handwork? There are calligraphers, sign writers and lettering artists who think it can.
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About Carl Rohrs
Carl Rohrs has been a commercial lettering artist and sign painter in Santa Cruz, CA since 1977. Teacher of Lettering & Typography and Graphic Design at Cabrillo College since ‘84, and U.C. Santa Cruz Extension. Teacher of modern calligraphy — and occasionally sign-painting and gilding — at workshops and conferences since ‘86 all over the US and Europe, as well as Japan, Australia and South Africa. Studied with Father Edward Catich, Hermann Zapf, Karlgeorg Hoefer among many others. Team teaching partners have included Julian Waters, Georgia Deaver, Susan Skarsgard and sign legend Mark Oatis. Former and current editor of Alphabet, the Journal of the Friends of Calligraphy.