This section offers the opportunity of an informal conversation on calligraphy, handwriting, gestural and expressive marks, and more. I intend to publish, from time to time, ideas or issues that may evolve in class with my students or other thoughts that I have about calligraphy. You are welcome to post your comments which will be published after revision.

Notes on my classes in Japan 2010
In my opinion calligraphy is at a turning point in its history and focusing on handwriting and its possibility to expand into art, is a necessity.

Expressive calligraphic words - Insomnia
These two words were chosen as samples for a concept development around the meaning of the word insomnia and the desire to sleep.

Lettering as drawing - Shadow
To explore the visual potential of words I love reading poems. Octavio Paz says "when I am writing a poem, it is to make something, an object or organism that will be whole and living...

The letterpress Manifesto - Thoughts on a workshop
This article is not about my ideas, it is the brief story of a workshop that I organized with Amos Kennedy, a letterpress printer. The workshop turned out to be a wonderful experience.

Le geste suspendu
The art of writing by hand, which we call calligraphy, is here the suspended gesture that opens a new dialogue between cultures.

Calligraphy vs Drawing vs Handwriting - Yu-ichi
The differences between graphic approach, calligraphic approach and that gestural free approach of handwriting.