Speaker Garrett Boge
I’m a big fan of letters. After twenty-something years at crafting hand lettering and display fonts, I’m moving inexorably in the direction of researching historical lettering-primarily inscriptions, primarily Roman. For the past 3 years I’ve divided myself between my studio in Seattle and my adopted Rome home, researching and assimilating what I find ( I’ve also become a big fan of Italy!). I’m currently structuring a reference archive-Legacy of Letters Digital Photo Archive-to document representative and distinctive examples of historical lettering. I hope to continue developing new historically-inspired display fonts based on this research, although the search itself seems to have me firmly in its grip.