SF Giants' Fan Displays 2010 SF Giants World Series Championship Design at Kalligraphia 13

October Is In Love with the Impossible at Kalligraphia 13 (  Click Title to hear Frank Sinatra &  Gene Kelly Sing and Dance "Take Me Out to the Ballgame")

Elizabeth Nisperos  SF Giants' World Series 2010 Logo. Big S covers Giants,Series, Champs a playform design deforming Roman Caps

Oracle Consultant Alex & wife Evelyn from Nova Scotia,Canada read the label of Giants' diaplay

Recently, Giants fans have been branded  as  best fans in the Baseball Universe by SF Giants players  for rocking the ballot boxes  and skyrocketing their favorite baseplayers  into starting positions at the All Stars Baseball break.: Don’t forget the SF Bay Area has Silicon Valley, high-tech expertise (Google,Youtube,Facebook,Twitter, Apple, etc) and millions of fanatics following their games.

Fan taking video of the  Giants' display

The intense fanaticism of the Giants fans votes  caused tremors and indignations from other teams. Baseball Commissioner Selig admits voting for your favorite player ‘is part of the process’.   The selected players (Cain,Cabrera,Sandoval,Posey) proved the fans got it right. The SF Giants players were indeed the stars in the lead roles in  the  2012  All-Star-Baseball show on July 10.

An example of Giants’ Fanaticism  in a quiet way  is by  using an ancient lost art and in an unhurried fashion is to display her design on Kalligraphia 13 Exhibition. 

 Friends of Calligraphy member  Elizabeth Nisperos believes impossible things are happening to the Giants even though it’s only July with the Universe playing its tricks just for the fun of it. Instead of high-tech gadgets, she used the low-tech pencil ,pen, paper and colors to design by  an original logo honoring the Giants 2010 World Series Championship. The piece’s title “October Is In Love with the Impossible” came from a prose poem she wrote chronicling the Giants’ underdog role and the impossible task to win the World Series. The poem ranked number one for two months as the most popular article at the Patch's website.  The poem’s form arose after taking a poetry workshop under award-winning poet Gary Young “The Sentence As A Poetic Form.” and  from Pulitzer Prize winner poet Robert Hass .poem "Human Wishes".

Lettering Artist & Teacher Liesbet Boudens of Brugge, Belgium holds the SF Giants logo created at her workshop

The playful black, orange, and gold logo Giants World Series piece came into existence by  deforming the ‘serious’ Roman Capitals  during  a workshop taught by Liesbet Boudens who comes from a famous clan of lettering artists in Brugge, Belgium.

“October Is In Love with the Impossible”  is on display at the Triennal Exhibition Kalligraphia 13  at the San Francisco Main Library, Skylight Gallery , Sixth Floor,The Marjorie G & Carl W. Stern Book Arts & Special Collections Center . The Friends of the Library and  the Friends of Calligraphy are the show’s sponsors for the 98 artists from around the globe.. The exhibit is from June 16 to August 26, 2012. Esteemed calligrapher Georgianna Greenwood , a Reed College graduate  created the “Kalligraphia 13” logo . Reed is the college where Steve Jobs studied calligraphy.

Sharing the display wall with the SF Giants “October Is In Love with the Impossible”  

are :

• Calligraphy teacher  Antonia Smith, “Forgetfulness” a Billy Collins’ poem;


Raoul Martinez 'Sleep'


• Raoul Martinez, Shakespeare's  MacBeth “Sleep” a combination of Blackletter and Copperplate scripts

Igael
Gurin Malous "I have Found What My Soul Loves/Safekeeping"

• Igael Gurin Malous, a Belgian-born artist from LA.”I Have Found What My Soul Loves/Safekeeping“a bleeding heart with a Hebrew text.

The unexpected mapping of  pieces  placed by the exhibit staff resulted in unexpected meanings and connections for  the Giants. Smith’s Forgetfulness reminds us not to forget it has been 52 years since the SF Giants won the World Series. Martinez’ Sleep concurs that the Giants were ‘sleepers’. A ‘sleeper’ is  like a movie you didn’t expect to be a boxoffice hit or a book that wasn’t expected to be a bestseller. Malous’ image of a Bleeding Heart is a good example of  the popular word “Torture” on Giants' way to the World Series.

World-class Calligrapher & Typographer Alan Blackman said “I like the Giants World Series design.” Blackman, a  designer of Adobe’s Galahad font has his own piece, “Checkmate:Amen.” Initially when the Giants’ poem appeared, renowned French Calligrapher Claude Dieterich demoed the poem’s title in Italic. Dieterich who’s currently in Peru submitted “I Speak With My Hands.”

The opening  reception of the exhibit was on June 16. Visitors from the Bay Area filled the entire 6^th Floor.Guests from other countries such as Michael Harvey, a Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE) for his Lettering Arts given by Queen Elizabeth and Oracle Consultant from Nova Scotia, Canada Alex MacEachern and his wife Evelyn dropped by  the gallery.

Previously in Kalligraphia 12 , Nisperos’ entry “Professor Knuth Enters a Number” honored one of the century geniuses : Stanford professor Turing Prize Winner and Faraday Medal recipient Donald Knuth(Bill Gates once said if you had read all Professor Knuth’s books and understood them, send Bill a resume so he can you give a job).