"The Edward Johnston Foundation is an arts organisation currently applying for charitable status. It mission is to forward calligraphy and lettering as central expressions of cultural creativity. These aims are backed with four objectives:1) to establish an archive and library which will support teaching and research and provide accessible data for use by all2) to build a collection of contemporary work which is international in scope3) to develop a full educational programme in calligraphy and allied subjects4) to initiate research into new electronic media"