John Stevens

John Stevens is a calligrapher, designer of logotypes & illustrator of expressive letterforms with 27+ years experience. He has worked for well known clients in book & magazine publishing, packaging, type design, graphic design, television & film.

In addition to the graphics application of his work, John has practiced calligraphy as an art form, producing one-of-a-kind commissioned pieces that are included in many private and public collections throughout the world. He has had several solo exhibitions, and has participated in many group exhibitions throughout the world (most recently, Japan).

Denis Brown

 

Denis Brown was born in Dublin in 1968. Ireland's rich heritage of ancient calligraphy in manuscripts such as The Book of Kells, was inspiration for Denis Brown as a schoolboy. Denis studied calligraphy at St. Benildus College Dublin in 1981 and from 1985 to 1986 studied Visual Communications at the College of Marketing & Design, Dublin. Later, his rigorous formal training in traditional calligraphy was at London's Roehampton Institute with Ann Camp. Now his work explodes from, and extends, those traditions in the form of innovative modern works of art. Widely travelled with his work, he has won awards and commissions on four continents, and is internationally recognised as a world leader in the field of letter arts. 

Donald Jackson

Donald Jackson is a British calligrapher born in Britain 1938 and calligrapher to the Crown office Great Britain. Jackson was commissioned in 1995 to scribe the St Johns bible on vellum (calfskin) and started work with his team in 2000, a two column format was decided on to tie in with modern script.

Jackson's other works include 'The story of writing' and 'The calligraphers Art'

Roman Typography

 Of all western typography Roman is a style most widely used. Others being Blackletter and Italic. Traditional Roman types are serif based on the style of ancient Rome and is typical in typography today, the serifs were added to give the stonecutters a baselineat the edges of each character stoke.

Nicolas Jenson is noted for developing the Roman typeface we understand today, constructed when he moved to venice this Roman typeface was developed in line with typograpical principles, as opposed to the old manuscript models.

Edward Johnston

Edward Johnston regarded as the father of modern calligraphy most famous fro designing the sans serif  'Johnston typeface'.  'The capitals of the typeface are based on Roman square capitals, and the lower-case on the humanistic minuscule, the handwriting in use in Italy in the fifteenth century' (Typegoodness.com)

Johnston type was most recognisable in the London Underground network Commissioned in 1913 by Frank Pick.

Eric Gill

Eric Gill Born in Brighton 1882, studying under the type designer Edward Johnston Gill became engrossed with typography and type design  designed the British equivilent to the swiss Helvetica 'Gill sans'.

"The shapes of letters do not derive their beauty from any sensual or sentimental reminiscences. No one can say that the O's roundness appeals to us only because it is like that of an apple or of a girl's breast or of the full moon. Letters are things, not pictures of things." (Eric Gill, Identifont)

Although Gill Sans was not Gills only developed typeface it was the most notible developed in 1928 based on the lettering of Edward Johnston designer of the London Underground typeface.