Upside Down, Left To Right, Danny Cooke’s Filmic Ode to Letterpress - UnBeige

Upside Down, Left To Right, Danny Cooke’s Filmic Ode to Letterpress - UnBeige

“This is a 500-year-old process, and it moves like a 500-year-old process,” says Paul Collier, a typography and letterpress technician at the school. “If you set up a paragraph or sentence, if you get wrong or if you haven’t planned your way forward…then you just have to take it apart and start all over again.” At the same time, he describes letterpress as calm, therapeutic, and “a very enjoyable process.” 

Exhibition: THE ART OF LETTERPRESS

February 11th-March 25th, 2012

Opening Reception:
Saturday, February 11th, 6-9pm

Closing Tea: Sunday, March 25th, 3-6pm

Co-curated with Rebecca Peters

The Compound Gallery & Studios
1167 65th st. Oakland, CA 94608
510.601.1702

OPEN:
Thursday-Sunday 12-6pm and
First Fridays until 9pm
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Making Faces: Metal Type in the 21st Century: Film Screening with director Q&A

Come join us at Typekit's headquarters on Tuesday October 4, 2011 for a more personal look at Richard Keglers' new documentary on metal typefaces. We'll open the doors at 7:00pm for drinks and begin the screening at 7:30pm followed by a Q&A at 8:30pm.

Making Faces' is a fascinating design documentary by Richard Kegler that captures the personality and work process of the late Canadian graphic artist and type designer Jim Rimmer (1931-2010).

https://makingfaces.eventbrite.com/

LetterMpress: A Virtual Letterpress on Your iPad

Experience the Art and Craft of Letterpress Printing on your iPad

LetterMpress™ will be a virtual letterpress environment—released first on the iPad—that will allow anyone to create authentic-looking letterpress designs and prints.

The design process is the same as the letterpress process—you place and arrange type and cuts on a press bed, lock the type, ink the type, and print. You will be able to create unlimited designs, with multiple colors, using authentic vintage wood type and art cuts. And you can print your design directly from LetterMpress or save it as an image for import it into other applications.

"Let me have my fun": Aldo Palazzeschi on the Press

Free Letterpress Printmaking Event

Kathleen Burch, cofounder, The San Francisco Center for the Book
John McBride, editor, Invisible City
Paul Vangelisti, translator and poet

The San Francisco Center for the Book, 300 De Haro Street
Thursday and Friday, October 15 and 16, 2009
2:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m. (drop-in hours)

As part of this open-house printing, the public may help create and take home a free poster of Aldo Palazzeschi's poem "Let me have my fun" (1910), an early futurist text first published in the U.S. by editor John McBride and poet Paul Vangelisti in a 1972 issue of their magazine Invisible City. Recognizing the tremendous impact of Futurism on the graphic art of the 20th century, the event also celebrates the simultaneous centenary of the Vandercook Proofing Press, a machine that has been crucial to the development of contemporary book arts. During Vangelisti's performance, the clack of the press complements his bilingual recitation of the text in Italian and in English.

Part of Metal + Machine + Manifesto = Futurism's First 100 Years.

Free and open to the public.
http://www.sfmoma.org/events/1457