L*E*T*T*E*R*S
& LITERATURES
a joint presentation by
CHARLES BIGELOW and KRIS HOLMES

“We’ll talk about calligraphy and typography for oral literatures that
became literate at some time. Such as Kiksht Chinook, colloquial modern
Irish, medieval Provencal, a little K’iche’, a smattering of Old English and
Ancient Greek.”

Charles Bigelow is the Melbert B. Cary, Jr. Professor of Graphic Arts at the
Rochester Institute of Technology, the recipient of RIT’s Frederic W. Goudy
Award in Typography, and a former MacArthur Prize Fellow.

Kris Holmes is an internationally known calligrapher and the designer of
more than one hundred type faces, including Lucida Grande, the standard font
for Macintosh OS X. She is the President of the Bigelow & Holmes Studio.

Tuesday, February 26 at 4:00 PM in the Poetry Collection, UB Libraries
Special Collections Research Room, 420 Capen Hall, University of NY at
Buffalo North Campus, Amherst NY.

There will be a display of their work.