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{{Short description|American typographer (1950–2009)}}
'''Gerald Giampa''' (March 4, 1950
==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
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.
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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 died on 20 June 2009 in Vancouver.
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