Timothy R. Botts is a master calligrapher, who studied with Arnold Bank at Carnegie-Mellon University as part of his graphic design training. Tim quotes, "Historically, the tradition of calligraphy has been to celebrate the text by embellishing it. In addition to that worthy goal, I seek to portray the words so that the meaning is expressed visually - what I call word pictures. I make use of the principles of graphic design to aid in this communication - color, style, contrast, depth, symbolism and movement - to name a few."