Talk story about a party marking the end of a 3-week calligraphy course held in the Calligraphy Workshop, a new establishment on the fifth floor of an office building on lower Fifth Ave.
By Wallace White The New Yorker, August 19 , 1974P. 27 Talk story about a party marking the end of a 3-week calligraphy course held in the Calligraphy Workshop, a new establishment on the fifth floor of an office building on lower Fifth Ave.
Imagine the iPad without that calligraphy course Steve Jobs snuck into at Reed or Disney Hall if Frank Gehry's mother had never taken him to a concert (he had already struck out as a radio announcer, chemical engineer and truck driver); or Elon Musk's Tesla if he hadn't earned his degree in physics at the University of Pennsylvania.
Taken a calligraphy class?
Jobs explained, "I decided to take a calligraphy class.
Tonight's holistic performance incorporates poetry, music, calligraphy and, of course, tea -- which will be served to the audience as part of the ritual.
It was a course in, of all things, calligraphy; I think that course instilled in him a passion for graphics that led to his demanding that the Macintosh leap beyond the single, ugly fonts of previous machines, to offer a wide variety of typefaces and sizes, plus bold, italics, and more.
To take courses in calligraphy.
At university, he took a course in calligraphy for no other reason than that it interested him.
He dropped out after one term, but continued to go to some classes, including a course on calligraphy.
