Teaching
Starting in 1979 Waters studied with legendary German type designer Hermann Zapf, who in 1984 asked the 27 year old Julian to substitute and teach his two-week masterclass at Rochester Institute of Technology. Waters succeeded Zapf in 1989.
In the 1990s Waters combined the hand and computer, teaching “Letterform Design” for second year Graphic Design students at the Corcoran School of Art, Washington DC. Since 1978 he has taught specialized seminars on lettering and design attended by calligraphers and graphic designer all over U.S.A, Canada, Asia and Europe and has taught and lectured at institutions including Cooper Union, New York, Sunderland University and Imperial College, London.
In 2006 Waters was the keynote speaker at *Letterforum*, part of the 26th International Calligraphy Conference, at James Madison University .
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