Bigelow & Holmes

Letter Drawing from Galileo

Letter drawing for Galileo typeface designed for Scientific American magazine, 1985.

 

Sierra Letter Drawing

Lowercase g from Sierra, 1982.

Lloyd Reynolds

Lloyd Reynolds was our calligraphy teacher at Reed College. We designed Apple Chancery based on his teaching of Chancery Cursive. Here is a comparison of a page from Reynolds' Italic Calligraphy and Handwriting and approximately the same layout in Apple Chancery. 

Myro's Pets

Myro's Pets, a poem by Anyte, a 9th Century Greek poet. Calligraphy by Kris Holmes with Lucida Greek. 

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Isadora in Siggraph Art Show 1982

A digital image of a lowercase "o" in the typeface Isadora was chosen for the Siggraph Art Show in 1982. 

 

You can see an interview with Kris Holmes from 1982 at this website.

 

Calligraphy by Kris Holmes

Perennial Whistling, 1982. In English and Clackamas Chinook. 

Calligraphy by Kris Holmes

Calligraphy by Kris Holmes, 1990

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Lucida Fonts on MacBook Screen

The word "New" in 1. Lucida Grande, 2. Lucida Grande Italic, 3. Lucida Handwriting at 12 point on MacBook Screen (showing sub-pixel anti-aliasing).

 

Bigelow & Holmes Typeface Designs

 

Lucida Sans, 1985

Lucida Bright, 1987

Lucida Handwriting, 1992

Lucida Calligraphy, 1992

Lucida Fax, 1992

Lucida Console, 1994

Lucida Casual, 1993

Lucida Blackletter, 1992

Lucida Sans Typewriter, 1986

Lucida Sans Typewriter Thai, 2000

Lucida Sans Arabic 2001

Apple Capitals, 1996

Apple Chancery, 1996

Apple Chicago, 1991

Apple Monaco, 1991

Apple New York, 1991

Apple Geneva, 1991

Portland, Oregon Studio

Photos from our studio in Portland, Oregon, 1978.

Film Title Sequence

Neutron Girl. 2004. 

 Click her to see Neutron Girl video. 

Film Title Sequence

Title sequence for UCLA Animation Workshop Falling Lizard by Kris Holmes. 2002.

 

Click here to see Falling Lizard 2002 video. 

 

Leviathan

A typeface commissioned by the Arion Press for a hand typeset edition of Moby Dick. 1979. 

 

 Photo from our Portland, Oregon studio drawing Leviathan.

 

 

Neon

Neon sign for shop in Ghirardelli Square, San Francisco, by Kris Holmes. 1986.

Artwork by Chuck Bigelow

The Folly. 1976.

History of the Alphabet

This illustration was done for an article in Scientific American by Charles Bigelow and Donald Day. August 1983. 

 

Original Drawing of Lucida Calligraphy

Designing a New Greek Type

From Fine Print

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