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Glenn Goluska

Glenn Goluska (b. 1947, Chicago; d. 2011, Montreal) was a Canadian book designer and typographer. He came to Canada as a student at the University of Toronto. After graduating he worked for some time in the United States before returning to Canada to work at Coach House Press. He left Coach House Press to focus on letterpress printing first in Toronto and later in the Saint Henri neighborhood of Montreal under the labels Imprimerie Dromadaire and Nightshade Press. Goluska was awarded the Robert R. Reid Award for lifetime achievement or extraordinary contributions to the book arts in Canada by the Alcuin Society in 2011.

Goluska had a book typeface designed in his honour by Nova Scotia-based type designer Rod MacDonald. The typeface, simply called Goluska, was published in 2021 at Canada Type, where Patrick Griffin oversaw the production and the addition of some variable fonts. Goluska admired Dwiggins, so Goluska, the typeface, was influenced by the puppeteer's work, especially the Scotch roman typeface Caledonia.

Obituary by Brigitte Schuster.

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