Carl Rohrs "Roma e Italia" at the San Francisco Public Library
Channel: San Francisco Public Library
Date: 2018-03-07

"Roma e Italia—Then, Since Then, & Now." Carl Rohrs presents an “unbalanced” view of two millennia of lettering traditions on the Italian Peninsula and around the Roman Empire featuring calligraphy, signs, tattoos, inscriptions, photos of the Trajan Column, and a look at a few modern day scribes. Rohrs has been a commercial lettering artist, sign painter, and teacher since 1977. He lives in Santa Cruz and has taught workshops all over the world. He studied with Father Edward Catich, Hermann Zapf, and Karlgeorg Hoefer among many others. He has taught classes with Julian Waters, Georgia Deaver, Susan Skarsgard, and Mark Oatis. He is the editor of Alphabet, the Journal of the Friends of Calligraphy. The Letterform Lecture Series is part of the Type@CooperWest certificate program in Typeface Design and a partnership with the Cooper Union, the Letterform Archive, and the Marjorie G. and Carl W. Stern Book Arts & Special Collections Center at the San Francisco Public Library. The Book Arts & Special Collections Center includes the Grabhorn Collection on the History of Printing and the Harrison Collection of Calligraphy and Lettering.