Carl Rohrs has been a lettering artist and signpainter in Santa Cruz, California since 1977, an instructor of Lettering & Typography and Graphic Design at Cabrillo College since 1984, and has been teaching in workshops and at calligraphy conferences since 1986 in the U.S., Canada, Europe, England, Japan, South Africa and Australia. From 1989 to 1992, he was the editor/designer of Alphabet, the Journal of San Francisco’s Friends of Calligraphy.