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Beth Lee offers calligraphy services through her business Callibeth. Her website is www.callibeth.com and her email is callibeth@gmail.com. She provides an alternative to traditional calligraphy styles.
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- 1. Beth Lee Not Your Aunt Agatha’s Calligraphy
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- Whence did the wondrous mystic art arise,of painting speech and speaking to the eyes?That we by tracing magic lines are taughthow to embody and to colour thought.Written by William Massey in the 18th-century
- Whence did the wondrous mystic art arise,of painting speech and speaking to the eyes?That we by tracing magic lines are taughthow to embody and to colour thought.Written by William Massey, in his 18th-century essay, “The Origin and Progress of Letters.”
- Writing is magic. We know this. That we can take a stick or a feather or a can of spray paint and make marks that stand for an idea that some future viewer may understand: that’s magic.
- That said, when I tell some people I am a calligrapher, I can practically see Aunt Agatha’s spidery black writing in a thought bubble over their heads. Everybody knows an Aunt Agatha: she never married, but at least she had her calligraphy. Image smudged to protect Aunt Agatha.
- But calligraphy is so much more than this. Until the invention of the printing press, calligraphy was IT. Everything was written digitally, that is, with the digits of the hand. Marks were scraped into wax tablets, inked onto papyrus, animal skins, and then paper.
- Even stone-cut letters followed the brush strokes of handmade letters. Hand lettering is a record of a performance, and even the untutored eye sees evidence of the gesture and tool that create the letter forms.
- The Carolingian hand, developed in Charlemagne’s time to facilitate unification and communication within his empire, carries the basic forms of most of our lower-case letters. This page from a Latin Gospel was produced at Tours in the early part of the 9th century.
- As time passed, scribes worked to fit more and more words on the expensive parchment. Letters became compressed, eventually becoming the blackletter style we now associate with Germans and bikers.
- The first printing presses mimicked the letterforms made by quills, but as time passed, the tools and materials had their effect on the form: type fonts became less gestural and more constructed. The type in the first Gutenberg bible is a far cry from today’s ubiquitous Helvetica typeface.
- At the height of modern design, typography and calligraphy were sharply divided. The Helvetica “a”, at left, was designed for maximum legibility, largely hiding its method of construction. The “a” on the right, by contrast, was made with a pack of toothpicks.
- Now that so much of visual design is created digitally, that is, with pixels and Bezier curves, we evidently hunger for the non-digital look. Books and articles abound on the subject of the handmade in graphic design.
- Typography and calligraphy are still intertwined. In 1998, the monks of St. John’s Abbey and University commissioned an illuminated, hand-lettered Bible. Consisting of nearly 1,150 vellum pages and 160+ illustrations, it was completed in May 2011.
- Donald Jackson has led the scriptorium of more than a dozen artists. He created a text hand that was made into a font which was used to typeset each page. These typeset pages were patterns for the calligraphers who hand lettered the text onto calfskin pages, using quills and antique stick inks.
- It’s a fascinating project. Holy Rosary Catholic Church will be hosting an exhibition of the St. Johns Bible project from November 10th through 25th. Call Holy Rosary for more information.
- In my own work I use digital programs both as tools of creation and to prepare work for production. Here are camera-ready invitations, scanned and digitally centered (smudged for privacy). Some printers require a JPG; others require a vector file.
- This was an amusing project. Although it looks like a medieval vellum manuscript page, it is actually a piece of architectural drafting film, inkjet printed and trimmed. I even cut out the holes in the parchment image.
- Calligraphy is one of the book arts. Three of the four books shown here were commissions. Two on the left were for wedding anniversaries. The top right was a rejected design for a graduation gift. The bottom right book is an artist’s book.
- This is a logo for a children’s summer camp. The lettering and illustration were made with one pen, and this helps to hold the 3 disparate parts of the logo together.
- Personal projects are my favorite. Here is an image of the mosaic floor of the 6th century synagogue at Beit Alpha in Israel. You see the Greek influence: signs of the zodiac surround the Sun chariot. This image forms the basis of the piece in the next slide.
- This commemorates a trip to Israel which included Beit Alpha. I replaced the signs of the zodiac with names and symbols of members of our group. Woven in a Croatian interlace are three strands of words listing the places we visited.
- Besides the sheer joy of mark-making, it’s this discipline of turning over the meanings of words, thinking about multiple meanings and their connections, and making the response gesturally that is so absorbing. It’s a valued antidote to the Twitter-paced deluge of words we encounter every day.