David Lance Goines
Hillside Club Poster

David Lance Goines'
Hillside Club Poster

World-renowned graphic artist and Hillside Club member David Lance Goines has designed the poster shown above for the Hillside Club. At the unveiling of his work during the Club's February Fireside Meeting, Mr. Goines discussed his inspiration for the design; you can read a synopsis of his remarks, as well as specifics on the poster, on his website at: www.goines.net.

A limited number of these wonderful works of art are available for purchase from the Hillside Club. The posters may be purchased at Hillside Club events or by mail. To purchase by mail please send a check for $60 ($50 plus $10 for shipping and handling) to:

The Berkeley Hillside Club
2286 Cedar Street
Berkeley, CA 94709

Be sure to include a valid shipping address and please allow 4 - 6 weeks for delivery. For shipping addresses in California, please add $4.38 sales tax to your check (total = $64.38).

For more information on poster sales please write to: poster@hillsideclub.org

About David Lance Goines and the St. Heironymous Press

David Lance Goines was born May 25, 1945, in Grants Pass, Oregon, and subsequently raised in California's Central Valley and in Oakland. He enrolled in the University of California, Berkeley, as a Classics major in the fall of 1963. Two years later he was expelled from the University for his participation in the Free Speech Movement. He was subsequently readmitted but soon dropped out voluntarily to participate in the Anti Vietnam War Movement, and also to pursue his graphic interests by apprenticing himself, in 1965, to Berkeley master printer Marion Syrek. In 1968 he founded the Saint Hieronymous Press at 1703 Grove Street, now MLK Way, in the same Berkeley printshop in which he had learned his trade. It is in this shop that he has produced, during the past forty years, by letterpress and offset lithography, the 215 posters and the innumerable product labels, book illustrations, and lesser works which have led to his international recognition as one of the great graphic artists of our time. It is the shop in which he works today.

At one time, back in the late 1960s and early 1970s, Goines and Alice Waters were a couple very prominent as mainstays of what might be termed Berkeley's countercultural social glitterati. Waters was getting her new Chez Panisse restaurant up and running. Goines helped. He began producing astoundingly effective posters to promote Chez Panisse, a poster series which continues to this day at the rate of one per year. Another close friend and prominent member of their social set was Tom Luddy, the founder and first Director of the new Pacific Film Archive on the U.C. Berkeley campus. Goines produced a series of movie posters for the Archive. The American Institute of Graphic Arts gave his Chez Panisse and Pacific Film Archive posters their principal Annual Award. The Museum of Modern Art in New York and the National Museum of American Art of the Smithsonian Institution in Washington D.C. began buying his work for their permanent collections. Goines was no longer just a colorful Berkeley character.

Commissions came rolling in. Commercial galleries came calling. He was off and running. And still is.

In 1982 Goines published A Constructed Roman Alphabet with David R. Godine, Publishers, of Boston. The book not only won the 1982 Book Award given by the American Institute of Graphic Arts, and a handful of other awards which, given the book's quality might very well be expected, but also the very prestigious 1983 American Book Award against very stiff competition. In 1993 Berkeley's own Ten Speed Press published Goines' memoir The Free Speech Movement: Coming of Age in the Sixties. It is definitely a must-read for any one interested in Berkeley history. More recently, in 1993, Goines designed and illustrated Alice Waters' Chez Panisse Cafe Cookbook, published by HarperCollins of New York, which won about a dozen prizes, many citing the design and graphics. Never awarded any major prizes, but nonetheless a sort of underground cult favorite, is a now rather rare and out-of-print book which Goines published with Ten Speed Press in 1995 titled Punchlines or How to Start a Fight in Any Bar in the World, a useful book for those so inclined. In this context it is interesting to note that Goines is a seventeen gallon blood donor. There are many other books, articles and occasional writings in Goines' bibliography worth checking out. He is a prolific writer, at times witty or sardonic or ironic or just plain comic, at times rather seriously profound, at times erudite and scholarly bordering on the pedantic, especially when he shifts into Latin, and sometimes for some readers possibly rather obnoxious bordering on the outright irritating, but never boring.

The very long list of awards which Goines has won, a list of the museums which have bought his work, a list of his one-man and group shows, a bibliography of his publications and other such resume materials, the texts of some of his occasional writings, large high resolution photos of all of his posters, and contact information can all be found on his website at www.goines.net.

The passing of years doesn't seem to have mellowed David Lance Goines very much. He is still a student of Greek and Latin literature, an ardent champion of free speech, and a vocal antiwar activist. But he is not just doing posters and wedding announcements for his friends, neighbors and local Berkeley businesses anymore, but also posters for wineries in France and resorts in Japan as well. Commissioning a poster isn't such an easy matter anymore either. You have to queue up on a waiting list for a couple of years and then pay about the price of a fairly well equipped small car. Or, if you want to buy a signed copy of one of his better known posters, if he has one available, you have to feel comfortable with four figure prices.

- William E. Woodcock, III