Our cousin Tim Holton is a maker of handcrafted picture frames. In a recent blog posting he reflected on the connection between Steve Jobs and handcraft.Steve Jobs spoke at Stanford's commencement in 2005. Jobs had admired the beautiful "hand caligraphed" signs on campus.
"I decided to take a calligraphy class.... I learned about serif and san 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.
None of this had even a hope of any practical application in my life. But ten years later, when we were designing the first Macintosh computer, it all came back to me. And we designed it all into the Mac. It was the first computer with beautiful typography."
Read the whole post here.
Tim wrote for the Arts and Crafts Homes Magazine, "Real Wealth: The Value of Art and Craft In a Debased Economy"
Tim's website
More about Tim here. Tim has a tribute to his father, Richard Holton, here. Richard is the brother of our father, William Holton.
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