Paul Shaw

Design historian, type designer, calligrapher, graphic designer
Art History BFA Design
Education

BA, Reed College; MA, M.Phil., Columbia University


Clients include

Parham/Santana, AIGA, Future Brand, Robilant & Associati, Verve Music Group, St. Martin’s Press, Weavings, Lumen, Doubleday Broadway Books, Mucca Design, Poulin + Morris Inc.


One-person exhibitions include

Museo Civico Asolo, Italy; Long Island University, Brooklyn Campus; College of Visual Arts, St. Paul, MN


Publications include

Eye; Blackletter: Type and National Identity; Print; The Calligraphic Tradition in Blackletter; Fine Print; Design Issues; Baseline; Voice: AIGA Journal of Design; Letters from New York: 2; Helvetica and the New York City Subway System; Codex: The Journal of Typography


Awards and honors include

Bibliographical Society of America; Silver Award, Typographers International Association; Rome Prize Fellowship, American Academy in Rome; Serif; Communication Arts; Print; Smithsonian Fellowship; Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center, University of Texas; Book Club of California; American Printing History Association; Printing Historical Society; AIGA; Type Director's Club