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Line 1: {{Short description\|American typographer (1950–2009)}} '''Gerald Giampa''' (March 4, 1950 -– June 24, 2009)<ref name="ft-times">{{cite news \|url=http://www.ft.com/cms/s/2/a2fa033e-7ca1-11de-a7bf-00144feabdc0.html \|title=The history of the Times New Roman typeface \|last=Alas \|first=Joel \|work=[[Financial Times]] \|date=2009-08-10 }}</ref><ref name="typophile">{{cite web \|url=http://typophile.com/node/59355 \|title=Gerald Giampa RIP \|last=Hudson \|first=John \|work=Typophile \|accessdate=2009-08-10}}</ref> was a [[Printer (publisher)\|printer]], [[typographer]] and [[author]]. ==Biography== When Gerald Giampa was born on 4 March 1950, his parents lived in a tent in [[Duncan, British Columbia]]. His interest in printing books came from his grandfather, who liked to read. Giampa studied [[letterpress printing]] and typography under [[Wil Hudson]] and [[Nick Schwabe]]<ref name="p22">{{cite web \|url=http://www.p22.com/Lanston/Giampa/GiampaIntroduction.html \|title=Lanston's Type Director: Gerald Giampa \|accessdate=2013-09-09 \|url-status=dead \|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20131222084858/http://www.p22.com/lanston/giampa/GiampaIntroduction.html \|archivedate=2013-12-22 }}</ref> in Vancouver. From 1975 to 1981 Giampa's [[Cobblestone Press]] in Vancouver published not only jobbing printing but also works by [[Ezra Pound]], [[Robin Blaser]]<ref name="blaser">{{cite web \|url=http://www.p22.com/Lanston/Giampa/Robin-Blaser-Poet.html \|title=Robin Blaser, Canadian Poet \|accessdate=2013-09-09 \|url-status=dead \|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20120310150319/http://www.p22.com/lanston/Giampa/Robin-Blaser-Poet.html \|archivedate=2012-03-10 }}</ref> and [[George Bowering]] among others. During this time he chiefly used Caslon type. Later Giampa expanded his company, renaming it the Northland Letterpress Company, and in 1983 he bought the US [[Lanston Monotype Machine Company]] of Philadelphia from [[M & H typefounders]] in [[San Francisco]]. With the Lanston Monotype Company's stock he acquired much of [[Frederic Goudy]]'s materials. He and [[Jim Rimmer]] adapted these for digital form; and from 1988 to 2004 ran the digital foundry, Lanston Type Company. Line 11 ⟶ 12: In 1994 Giampa moved to Prince Edward Island, but a few years later his stock was destroyed in a storm. The name of his firm, together with its fonts, were bought in 2004 by the digital foundry [[P22 type foundry\|P22]], of Buffalo, NY. Giampa designed the [[Bodoni 26]] [[font]], which was named in the top 100 Types in a survey conducted by the Type Directors Club.<ref name="typedir">{{cite web \|url=http://www.tdc.org/reviews/typelist.html \|title=Type Directors Club Reviews: The Top 100 Types of All Time? \|accessdate=2013-09-09 \|url-status=dead \|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20130826155121/http://www.tdc.org/reviews/typelist.html \|archivedate=2013-08-26 }}</ref> He would have petulantly and vociferously insisted upon the adjective 'fine' preceding any description of him as simply a 'printer'. Despite having quite a nice beard and a fine line in hand-on-hip poses, Giampa was an overweening, arrogant man who over-reacted badly to the mildest criticism. When the lurid acts of typographic masturbation that were his hallmark were criticised, he would fall back on squealing 'It's fine book work!' at anyone who was dumb enough to listen. He died on 20 June 2009 in Vancouver. Line 23 ⟶ 22: {{reflist}} {{authority control}} ~~{{Persondata <!-- Metadata: see [[Wikipedia:Persondata]]. -->~~ ~~\| NAME = Giampa, Gerald~~ ~~\| ALTERNATIVE NAMES =~~ ~~\| SHORT DESCRIPTION =Typographer~~ ~~\| DATE OF BIRTH = March 4, 1950~~ ~~\| PLACE OF BIRTH =Duncan, British Columbia, Canada~~ ~~\| DATE OF DEATH =2009-06-24~~ ~~\| PLACE OF DEATH =Vancouver, Canada~~ }} {{DEFAULTSORT:Giampa, Gerald}} [[Category:1950 births]] [[Category:2009 deaths]] [[Category:Canadian printers]] [[Category:Canadian typographers and type designers]]