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	Eliason, Craig
	Associate Professor cdeliason@stthomas.edu Phone: (651) 962-5861 Toll Free: (800) 328-6819, Ext. 2-5861 Fax: (651) 962-5861 Office Location: 2057 Portland Ave.
B.A., Amherst College M.A., Ph.D., Rutgers University Specialization: Modern art, design, and aesthetics Craig Eliason’s current research focuses on the history of typography and type design. He is developing a history of the labels used to classify printing types in the modern period. His earlier research investigated the theoretical and practical relationships between the Dada and Constructivist movements in the 1920's, particularly in the career of Dutch artist Theo van Doesburg. Publications “Roger Excoffon et la Fonderie Olive by Sandra Chamaret, Julien Gineste, and Sébastien Morlighem” [book review] Design and Culture (forthcoming). “Uppercase, Lowercase, Unicase: The Making of Ambicase Modern,” Codex: The Journal of Typography no. 1 (Spring 2011): 94–105. “Adrian Frutiger Typefaces: The Complete Works by Heidrun Osterer and Philipp Stamm; José Mendoza y Almeida by Martin Majoor and Sébastien Morlighem” [book review] Design and Culture 3 no. 1 (2010): 130–33. “‘All the Serious Men are Sick’: Van Doesburg, Mondrian, and Dada,” Simiolus 34 no. 1 (in press). “Theo van Doesburg: Italian Futurist?” In The Low Countries: Crossroads of Cultures, ed. Ton Broos, Margriet Bruyn Lacy, and Thomas F. Shannon (Münster: Nodus, 2006), 47-56. “Manifestoes by Mail: Postcards from the Theo van Doesburg Correspondence,” Visual Resources, 17 no. 4 (Dec. 2001): 449–458. “De conferenties van 1922: Tristan Tzara als Van Doesburgs saboteur” [The Conferences of 1922: Tristan Tzara as Van Doesburg's Saboteur], Jong Holland (The Hague) 16 no. 2 (Spring 2000), 31–37, 66–67. Published typeface designs Ambicase Modern, produced by Teeline Fonts, distributed by FontShop and MyFonts, 2010. Ambicase Fatface, produced by Teeline Fonts, distributed by FontShop and MyFonts, 2011. Exhibitions “Founding Zero.” Harry Ransom Center for the Humanities, University of Texas, Austin, October-November, 2010 “Face the Nation: How National Identity Shaped Modern Typeface Design.” Minnesota Center for Book Arts, Minneapolis, July 12–September 21, 2008 “Renovation: UST Chapels After Sacrosanctum Concilium.” OEC Lobby Gallery, University of St. Thomas, October 11-31, 2003 Recent fellowships and grants Harry Ransom Center, University of Texas Limited Editions Club Endowment Fellowship, 2009–10 Houghton Library, Harvard University Katherine F. Pantzer Jr. Fellowship in Descriptive Bibliography, 2009–10 Recent conference presentations TypeCon2010 Los Angeles, CA, 2009 “Type History in Transition: The Emergence of the 'Transitional' Label for Type Designs” TypeCon2009 Atlanta, GA, 2009 “Why ‘Humanist’ Type?” Modernist Studies Association Long Beach, CA, 2007 “Eric Gill and the Humanist Sans-Serif: For and Against Modernism” College Art Association Annual Meeting New York, NY, 2007 “Building an Understanding of Architectural History” Recent lectures Selim Center University of St. Thomas, St. Paul, MN, 2011 “Painting in the United Staes” Collectors' Forum Minnesota Center for Book Arts, Minneapolis, MN, 2011 “Classifying Printing Types: Maximilien Vox and the Power of Suggestion" Design Lecture Series University of Texas, Austin, TX, 2010 “Classifying Printing Types: Maximilien Vox and the Power of Suggestion” Book Arts Roundtable Minnesota Center for Book Arts, Minneapolis, MN, 2008 “The Place of Letters” ACTC Art History Symposium Associated Colleges of the Twin Cities, St. Paul, MN, 2008 “Equivocally Modern Letters: Gill Sans and the Origin of the Humanist Sans Serif”