· His beautiful looping cursive carried tender words of love along with testimony about day-to-day survival inside the camp. Sixty years later, graphic designer and type designer Carolyn Porter found Marcel’s letters at an antique store in Stillwater, Minnesota, and began to transform his handwriting into a modern computer font. Find items like Marcel's Letters: A Font and the Search for One Man's Fate at Bas Bleu. This one-of-a-kind memoir begins when graphic designer Carolyn Porter finds some beautifully penned old letters—written in French, and mailed from Germany to France during World War II—in an antiques store in Minnesota. The handwriting is so elegantly expressive, Porter decides she wants to create a new . Her non-fiction book Marcel’s Letters: A Font and the Search for One Man’s Fate was a finalist for a Minnesota Book Award, was a Paris Book Festival winner and won gold medals from IPPY and the Military Writer’s Society of America. Carolyn works as a freelance graphic designer and is a member of AIGA Minnesota. EVENT PARTNER.
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