Heeber gave a very casual and conversive calligraphy workshop. He was fascinated by a blackletter style that references some of the first fonts used in history.
Calligraphy is an ancient artform. Calligraphy was preformed as early as 800c by the Japanese and Chinese. Calligraphy was practiced in the west at the onset of antiquity with papyrus and ink. Deriving from the Greek words "beauty" and "to write" calligraphy literally means to beautifully write.
Gutenburg modeled the first set of moveable type after the blackletter style found in early calligraphy. Even after the development of the printing press, calligraphy continued to be valued and evolve. Although it is not as widely used today, there continues to be calligraphy heads who will pay 700$ per pen.
"Calligraphy is great, because it looks so cool everyone wonders how you made it". - Heeber
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