David Lance Goines (May 29, 1945 – February 19, 2023), was an American artist, calligrapher, printmaker, typographer, printing entrepreneur, and author. He was born in

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, the oldest of eight children. His father was a

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and his mother a

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and artist.

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David Lance Goines was born May 29, 1945, in

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. He was the eldest of eight children and they were raised in

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, and

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. He attended

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in Oakland. During the 1960s, Goines enrolled at the

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at Berkeley as a

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major. While at the

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he participated in the Free Speech Movement of late 1964, which led to his expulsion. Though soon re-admitted, he graduated the University in 1965, and apprenticed as a printer in

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. Goines was

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’ boyfriend in spring 1966, when she was helping ''Ramparts'' editor

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's unsuccessful campaign for Congress. Waters' and Goines' weekly cooking column in the

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, book, ''30 Recipes Suitable for Framing'' (1968), and the series of lithographs Goines printed at his shop that sold out its many printing runs, earned the money to buy the ''Berkeley Free Press'' print shop, in Berkeley, in 1968, from Leo Bach, renaming it, Saint Hieronymus Press. The major output of the press consists of Goines' limited edition poster and calendar art, distributed by Dow and Frosini.Website of David Lance Goines
accessed 5/25/21 Portal Publications issued reproductions of forty originals. Goines art style has been described as "

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". In 1982, Goines published the calligraphic classic '' A Constructed Roman Alphabet'', which won him the 1983

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. Several books collecting his poster art have been published as well. Goines' art and posters can be found in international museum collections, including the Achenbach Foundation for the Graphic Arts,

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, Musee de la Publicite,

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, and

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. In addition to his artistic and calligraphic work, Goines was also a non-fiction author who had written about political activism. His book ''The Free Speech Movement: Coming of Age in the 1960s'', was published in 1993. Goines had enjoyed a friendship with the restaurateur

since they were both teenagers. Every year Goines created a

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anniversary poster and has illustrated many Chez Panisse cookbooks. He also designed the logotype and lettering for a number of Berkeley-based businesses, past and present, including Velo-Sport (a

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store) and the Scharffen Berger Chocolate Company. A strong advocate of the voluntary

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system, Goines claimed to have donated a cumulative total of 20 gallons of blood so far during his life. Goines died in Berkeley, California, on February 19, 2023, at the age of 77.

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External links

David Lance Goines Fine Arts Posters Master List
at ''goines.net''
A visit with David Goines: Berkeley’s legendary letterpress printer and lithographer
a
Berkeleyside

with David Lance Goines
�by Stephen McKiernan, Binghamton University Libraries Center for the Study of the 1960s, November 19, 2009 {{DEFAULTSORT:Goines, David 1945 births 2023 deaths University of California, Berkeley alumni People from Grants Pass, Oregon Artists from Berkeley, California Culture of Berkeley, California Artists from the San Francisco Bay Area Writers from the San Francisco Bay Area Activists from California American printmakers

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