David Goines

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David Lance Goines (born May 29, 1945) is an American artist, 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. He enrolled at the University of California at Berkeley as a Classics major, As a student in classical literature at the University of California, Berkeley and participated in the Free Speech Movement of late 1964, leading to his expulsion. Though re-admitted, he left the university in 1965 to apprentice as a printer in Berkeley. In 1968 he founded Saint Hieronymus Press there. [1]

In 1982, Goines published his A Constructed Roman Alphabet, which won him the 1983 American Book Award.

He wrote The Free Speech Movement: Coming of Age in the 1960s, 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 has also designed the logotype and lettering for a number of Berkey-based businesses, past and present, including Velo-Sport (a bicycle company) and the Scharffen Berger Chocolate Company.

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1. Website of David Lance Goines http://www.goines.net/biography.html