Dennis Ichiyama Printing Wood Type: 7 Letters x 7 Vandercooks
10:30am
Monika Meler Diffused Relief Printing Using an Etching Press
3 pm
Sculptural Forms: Casting Pulp in Ceramic Molds with Jon Hook and Andrea Peterson
Vendors Fair
12 noon-5 pm in the SFCB Patio Tent
Up to twenty vendors will be selling their wares, including tools, supplies, crafts, and fine art related to paper, print, and book arts.
Tours
10:30 am & 12:30 pm at Magnolia Editions (2527 Magnolia St, Oakland)
Magic Moments Tour of Magnolia Editions Fine Art Print Studio.
1-9 pm at 1890 Bryant St. Studios
A vibrant center for fine art & craft, located in the historic Best Foods building in the Mission District. FDH/APHA Member’s Exhibition. [This is Ourselves] UNDER PRESSURE. Reception 6 to 9 pm
11 am to 3 pm EXCURSION to the Book Club of California
Informal Open House. Display of its Dard Hunter holdings. ¶ A master copy of The Dwiggins Marionettes. ¶ Exhibition on view: Food & Wine & Good Design: The California Fine Printers’ Legacy curated by Randall Tarpey-Schwed in conjunction with A Feast for the Eyes: Gastronomy & Fine Printing.
Reception
6 to 9 pm at 1890 bryant st. studios
Friends of Dard Hunter Member’s Exhibition. {This is Ourselves} UNDER PRESSURE.
This astounding floor to ceiling handmade paper installation, by Judy O’Shea and her husband Mike, greets conference attendees upon arrival at the San Francisco Center for the Book.
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]
