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Trappist Monk Who Inspired Apple's Fonts Passes Away
The man who Inspired Steve Jobs to bring multiple typographic styles to the Mac, the Trappist Monk and calligrapher Rev. Robert Palladi**, died late last month at the age of 83.
Palladi** taught calligraphy classes at Portland's Reed College, which Jobs attended during his dropout year.*Yesterday The Washington Post published a retrospective highlighting the development of Palladi**'s art, the encounter between the two men, and the continuing influence Palladi**'s calligraphy had on Jobs' aesthetic vision.  Robert Palladi** teaching in 1978 (Image: Reed College)Palladi**'s creative journey began in 1950 when he joined a New Mexico monastery at the age of 17. A scribe Monk in the Trappist order **ticed Palladi**'s elegant handwriting, and tutored him in the art of decorative lettering over the course of five years. Eventually, Palladi** left New Mexico and moved to Lafayette, Oregon, where his art caught the attention of Lloyd Rey**lds, an expert calligraphist and the creator of the calligraphy program at Portland's Reed College. After striking up a friendship with Rey**lds through written correspondence, Palladi** left the silent monastic life in 1968 to study under his new mentor full-time, before Rey**lds retired a year later and left Reed College's program in Palladi**'s hands. Steve Jobs enrolled in the college in 1972, but dropped out after his first semester. However, the future Apple co-founder continued to frequent the campus and Palladi**'s work soon caught his eye. Jobs recounted his appreciation for the handwritten art in his 2005 commencement address at Stanford: Throughout the campus every poster, every label on every drawer, was beautifully hand calligraphed. Because I had dropped out and didn?t have to take the **rmal classes, I decided to take a calligraphy class to learn how to do this. I learned about serif and sans serif typefaces, about varying the amount of space between different letter combinations, about what makes great typography great. It was beautiful, historical, artistically subtle in a way that science can?t capture, and I found it fascinating."He came back afterwards and consulted me about Greek letters for a type font," Palladi** later recalled for a Reed College 2008 oral history project. "I don?t k**w if he ever used my Greek letters, or if he just used them as a starting point, but we had a good time. He was educating me about what a computer is, as I hadn?t the foggiest idea what he was talking about." Palladi** never owned, or even once used, a computer, but recalled*Jobs as being "as nice a guy as you could meet," in a 2011 Hollywood Reporter interview. He also taught other famous students, including*typeface designer Sumner Stone, who created the ITC Stone font during his time at Adobe. [IMG]http://cdn.macrumors.com/article-new/2016/03/06Palladi**-Obit-superJumbo-800x533.jpg[/IMG]Robert Palladi** in his home studio in Sandy, Oregon, in 2012 (Image: Liz Devine) Palladi** taught until 1984 before retiring with his wife to a 20-acre farm, where they raised sheep. He became a Catholic priest in 1995, but worked as a professional calligrapher until his death on February 26. You can watch Palladi** interviewed for the 2011 PBS documentary Steve Jobs: One Last Thing, in a segment covering the artistic influences that shaped Jobs' character. Tag: Steve Jobs Discuss this article in our forums أكثر... ??????? ??????: Trappist Monk Who Inspired Apple's Fonts Passes Away || ??????: ahlam1399 || ??????: اسم منتداك
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