Paul Shaw

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Paul Shaw Paul Shaw (b. Ann Arbor, MI, 1954) is a calligrapher and typographer working in New York City, where he runs Paul Shaw/Letter Design. He has created custom lettering and logos for many companies, including Avon, Lord&Taylor, Rolex, Clairol and Estée Lauder. Shaw has taught calligraphy and typography at New York's Parsons the New School for Design for more than a decade. He teaches the history of type at the School of Visual Arts in New York. Designer of the Kolo LP art nouveau family (with Garrett Boge) in 1996 at Letterperfect Design. He was inspired by the lettering of Koloman Moser, Gustav Klimt, Alfred Roller, and other members of the Secession, Vienna's turn-of-the-century Art Nouveau movement, in the design of Kolo. Garrett Boge and Paul Shaw made the fun handwriting font Bermuda LP in 1996. At LetterPerfect (which he started with Garrett Boge in 1996), he co-designed Kolo (1996), Tomboy, Beata, Donatello, Ghiberti, Pietra, Pontif (roman capitals), Cresci (roman capitals), Old Claude LP and Uppsala LP (1998) with Garrett Boge. At Agfa/Monotype, you can buy his calligraphic fonts Göteborg LP (1998), Stockholm LP (1998, with Garrett Boge), and Uppsala. Coauthor with Peter Bain of Blackletter: Type and National Identity (1998). At ATypI in Rome in 2002, he spoke about the revival of the roman capital in the 15th century, and lettering in fascist Italy. FontShop link. Klingspor link.	EXTERNAL LINKS Paul Shaw [Designer info] MyFonts search Monotype search Google search INTERNAL LINKS Type designers ⦿ Type designers ⦿ Handwriting fonts ⦿ Type design in Sweden ⦿ Type scene in Michigan ⦿ Type scene in New York ⦿ Books on type design ⦿ Art Nouveau typefaces ⦿ Calligraphic typefaces ⦿