David Lance Goines, Wednesday, January 26th

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Artist and writer David Lance Goines was born in 1945 in Grants Pass, Oregon, and is the oldest of eight children. He attended the University of California at Berkeley as a Classics major, but in his second year was expelled as a consequence of his participation in the Free Speech Movement. Though later readmitted, he had by then lost his taste for higher education and in 1965 apprenticed with a Berkeley printer, becoming in the fullness of time a journeyman of that Art and Mystery. He is the author of five books, collaborated on three, and his work has been the subject of six others. 

In 1968 he founded Saint Hieronymus Press in the same Berkeley printshop where he had learned his trade. There he has remained, designing his work and printing it by both letterpress and photo-offset lithography.

His artwork has been reproduced in numerous professional publications, including American Illustration , Communication Arts , Graphis , How , Print , and Step-By-Step Graphics.

His writing and artwork have been the recipients of many awards, most notably the 1983 American Book Award for his book, A Constructed Roman Alphabet . His artwork is represented in both public and private collections. 

His artwork has been exhibited in more than one hundred one-man and group shows, both national and international.

This celebration of a four-decade career features 155 full-color posters. David Lance Goines' distinctive Arts & Crafts–style posters promote movies, galleries, restaurants, and concerts, in addition to other events and products. This original edition was developed in cooperation with the artist, who provides a preface. With a foreword by Alice Waters.