The APHA/Friends of Dard Hunter conference is here. Today’s events:
All day
Exhibitions at San Francisco Center for the Book: • Water Paper Stone: A Walk-through Book by Judy O’Shea • Dennis Ichiyama: Wood Type Prints • W.A. Dwiggins Pop-up Show
1 pm
Celebrating 50 Years of Special Collections at the San Francisco Public Library
3 pm
Tour of Grabhorn Institute Tour, Arion Press and M&H Type
5-7 pm
Short Tours of the Internet Archive
7 pm
Keynote address by Kathryn & Howard Clark“Twinrocker Handmade Paper: A Chunk of San Francisco in a Hoosier Cornfield” at the Internet Archive
From “Pulp Diction” to be presented by Amy LeePard and Suzanne Sawyer, part of the Techniques and Technologies panel. Letterpress printed text using a photopolymer plate on a newly formed wet sheet of handmade paper. (Suzanne Sawyer)
Revised. “Paper on the Press” is less than two DAYS! away, but a few panels still need conference goers to file brief write-ups for this website. Will you help? Please review the remaining events and volunteer.
Working layouts for a celebratory broadside for J. Ben Lieberman, designed by Herbert Johnson and printed by Pat Taylor, 1978. Gift of H. Johnson to RIT Cary Collection, 2014.
American Printing History Association presents
The Lieberman Lecture
Anatomy of a Type Design: Centaur by Bruce Rogers*
By Herbert H. Johnson *And a Footnote on Its Erstwhile Companion, Arrighi by Frederic Warde Monday, November 17, 2014, 6:30 p.m. RIT Cary Graphic Arts Collection, Rochester, New York [Read more]
The upcoming APHA/Friends of Dard Hunter conference is nearly filled to capacity. As was done for the 2013 conference, this website will recap the presentations, demos, and tours. But we need your help: just summarize an event in about two hundred words. The editor is coordinating assignments to make sure that all events are covered. Please see the program and sign up now.
Grendl Löfkvist operating the Presstek 34 DI-X at Inkworks Press. Photo by Scott Braley.
Members of APHA and the Friends of Dard Hunter, will soon receive by mail, the program for the upcoming conference in San Francisco. It was printed on a Presstek 34 DI-X four-color waterless offset press at Inkworks Press. On this high-tech machine, plates are imaged directly on press using lasers, bypassing film entirely. The press can produce up to 300 lpi and stochastic screening in perfect register. [Read more]
I have a printing plate from the title page of Festoons of Fancy, William Littell, 1814, Louisville, Ky. I have been told that the title page would have been typeset and not printed from a plate. Have researched endlessly on line with very little success. Can it be determined by looking at the book which printing method was used? Thank you in advance for your time and any insight you can provide. See image. [Read more]
APHA annually makes two awards, one to an individual and one to an institution, as a way of recognizing “a distinguished contribution to the study, recording, preservation or dissemination of printing history, in any specific area or in general terms.” The 2015 Awards Committee, comprising Amanda Nelsen, Kathleen Walkup, and Michael Thompson (chair), is now accepting nominations for these awards. [Read more]
Andrew Franklin Wanner (1855–1935) was a central figure on Chicago’s printers row. Letterpress printers might know his company as the original maker of Poco and Potter proof presses. It was also one of the earliest selling agents for Vandercook, the most sought after brand of proof press today. [Read more]
Paper on the Press, APHA’s Joint Annual 2014 Conference with the Friends of Dard Hunter is now accepting registration. Paper on the Press has something for you! From hand-made to machine-made to digital, from industry to education to the arts, we hope you will join us in examining the historical and contemporary ties that connect paper and press. Presentations, demonstrations, exhibitions, excursions, camaraderie, San Francisco, and Oakland all await you. Program information and registration are now available.
I am writing my dissertation on the printing enterprise of the American Anti-Slavery Society, 1833-1840, and am trying to find information on one of the printers it used by the name of William S. Dorr. Do you know of any archives or sources in New York City that might have information on Dorr or the printing industry in New York City in the 1830s? Thanks, Paula Hunt.
The APHA/Friends of Dard Hunter conference is here. Today’s events:
