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landed at Philadelphia
College of Art, now the
University of the Arts, to take
the place of a departing
visiting faculty member who
just happened to be Dan.
They met, hit it off, and—not
very long after—April was in
New Haven, designing Dan’s
moving announcement.
Dan and April were alike in
many ways: incredibly gifted
and ambitious missionaries
of the new typography.
While Dan was intellectual,
methodical, and focused,
April was intuitive, impulsive,
and spiritual. Dan taught
April about method and
meaning; April taught Dan
about designing from the
heart. They married and
began to collaborate on
some notable projects.
Part 5
At the end of his book
he offers a twelve-point
manifesto, as wise and
optimistic today as it was
twenty years ago:
—Live and work with passion
and responsibility; have a
sense of humor and fantasy.
—Try to express personal,
spiritual, and domestic
values even if our culture
continues to be dominated