"As obvious as it oughta be, a type designer with a calligraphic education or background has a thousand-fold leg up on one who doesn’t," he says. I asked Rohrs to discuss the relationships between type, calligraphy and typography. Under his watch each masthead is different, inspired by a subject or artist featured in the issue. The commercial lettering artist and sign painter Carl Rohrs edited the publication from 1989–1992, and returned to the job in 2015. Different editors have included Paul Shaw and Christopher Calderhead, and the editor was almost always designer, as well. In the early 1980s, John Prestianni made the switch to a magazine format, and that's when it became Alphabet. In those first years it was bound with loose stapled papers and edited by Georgianna Greenwood, Sumner Stone and Don May. Since launching in 1974, San Francisco’s Friends of Calligraphy has published a newsletter with in-depth articles.
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