David Lance Goines, Date of Birth, Place of Birth
TweetDavid Lance Goines
American artist
Date of Birth: 29-May-1945
Place of Birth: Grants Pass, Oregon, United States
Profession: artist
Nationality: United States
Zodiac Sign: Gemini 
About David Lance Goines
- David Lance Goines (born May 29, 1945) is an American artist, calligrapher, typographer, printing entrepreneur, and author.
- He was born in Grants Pass, Oregon, the oldest of eight children.
- His father was a civil engineer and his mother a calligrapher and artist. During the 1960s, Goines enrolled at the University of California at Berkeley as a Classics major.
- While a student in classical literature at the University of California, Berkeley he participated in the Free Speech Movement of late 1964, which led to his expulsion.
- Though soon re-admitted, he again left the University in 1965, this time to apprentice as a printer in Berkeley.
- In 1968 he founded Saint Hieronymus Press there.
- The major output of the press consists of Goines' limited edition poster and calendar art.In 1982, Goines published the calligraphic classic A Constructed Roman Alphabet, which won him the 1983 American Book Award.
- Several books collecting his poster art have been published as well. In addition to his artistic and calligraphic work, Goines is also a non-fiction author who has written about political activism.
- His book The Free Speech Movement: Coming of Age in the 1960s, was published in 1993. Goines has enjoyed a friendship with the restaurateur Alice Waters since they were both teenagers.
- Every year Goines creates a Chez Panisse anniversary poster and has illustrated many Chez Panisse cookbooks.
- He also designed the logotype and lettering for a number of Berkeley-based businesses, past and present, including Velo-Sport (a bicycle company) and the Scharffen Berger Chocolate Company. A strong advocate of the voluntary blood donor system, Goines claims to have donated a cumulative total of 17 gallons of blood so far during his life.Goines art style has been described as "minimalist".
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