The Art of Calligraphic Mapmaking

Step-by-Step Graphics*
November/December 1987
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The Epic of New York City

Edward Robb Ellis
Coward-McMann, 1966
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Raritan

Spring 1984
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Choosing Your Retirement Hobby

Norah Smaridge
Dodd, Mead, 1976
pages 62 and 63: “Calligraphy”

Easier than drawing or painting, calligraphy or “beautiful writing” is making
a comeback, especially among seniors. “No one is too old, or too decrepit, to
take up and enjoy this simple hobby, that trains both eye and wrist and can be
pursued equally well from one’s armchair or bed,” says Cecil Chisholm, author
of Retire and Enjoy It....

But whatever your reason for taking it up, you will find the art fascinating
and time-consuming. “You’re never perfect,” says Jeanyee Wong, herself a
perfectionist. “You can always do something more and improve.” Miss Wong,
well known for her designs of UNICEF greeting cards, also uses her calligraphy
in book jacket lettering, advertisements, announcements, and invitations.
Louis Strick, director of the Pentalic Corporation which sells italic pens and
writing materials, founded the first calligraphy workshop in the United States
a few years ago. “Calligraphy is to everyday handwriting as a carefully prepared
speech is to casual conversation,” he said, offering a three-week course to
introduce the art. It was received so enthusiastically that courses began to
mushroom around the country....


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March 2006

Society of Scribes 2006 Calendar
Hand: Uncials
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1949 Book Jacket Designers Guild Exhibition

The Second Annual Exhibition of Book Jackets
May 9 to June 30, 1949
A-D Gallery, New York City

Book Jacket Designers Guild
Leo Manso, Chairman

Exhibitors: George Barrows, John Begg, Andor Braun, Jean Carlu, Lili Cassel, Jack Cesareo, Warren Chappell, Jean Charlot, Edgard Cirlin, Ronald Clyne, P.J. Conkwright, Miguel Covarrubias, W.A. Dwiggins, Bill English, Souren Ermoyen, Gene Federico, Sam Fischer, Harry Ford, Paul Galdone, Seon Givens, Philip Grushkin, Adolf Hallman, Robert Hallock, Arthur Hawkins, Jr., John Held, Jr., Derik Hill, Al Hirshfield, Sol Immerman, Robert Jonas, Ilonka Karasz, Joseph Karov, Edward A. Karr, E. McKnight Kauffer, Elizabeth Lehman, Riki Levinson, Reisie Lonette, Alvin Lustig, Leo Manso, John Marin, James Mason, Laszlo Matulay, Thoreau Macdonald, Fred McCarroll, William Meek, Carlos Merida, Meyer Miller, Ava Morgan, Warren Nardin, Oscar Ogg, Peter Oldemburg, Stamo Papadaki, Paul Rand, James Reynolds, Roger Studio, Thomas Ruzicka, George Salter, Stefan Salter, Paul Sample, Jacques Schiffrin, Gidion Schocken, Arno Enrico Schuele, Charles E. Skaggs, David Soshensky, Margot Tomes, Helen van Zandt, Arthur Wallace, Paul R. Wieand, Jeanyee Wong, Miriam Woods, Thomas Yee

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1948 Book Jacket Designers Guild Exhibition
1950 Book Jacket Designers Guild Exhibition
1953 Book Jacket Designers Guild Exhibition

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Studio Handbook

Society of Scribes, 2001
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