Category Archives: Event

Librarians Are Warriors: An Interview with Stephen Boyer

By Matt Runkle | Published: April 10, 2012

Despite its banishment from Zucotti Park, it looks like Occupy Wall Street has weathered the winter as it gears up for another massive action on May 1st. Since being met with militarized police tactics, the movement’s demands have grown to encompass basic civil rights of assembly and free speech. Interestingly, physical books—objects currently fretted over [...]

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Matt Runkle
Matt Runkle
Matt Runkle is a writer, cartoonist, and book artist. His work has appeared in The Collagist, on BOMBlog, and is forthcoming in Beecher's. He has taught workshops in fiction, comics art, visual narrative, sequential collage, and zine making. The third issue of his zine, RUNX TALES, will be released in 2012. You can visit his personal blog here.

AIGA Book Cover Show in San Francisco!

By Naomi Bardoff | Published: March 29, 2012

Starting today, the fifty best-designed books and fifty best-designed book covers published in 2010 (and juried by AIGA in 2011) will be on display at Chronicle Books in SF. Via the Bold Italic.

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Naomi Bardoff
Naomi Bardoff
In 2010 Naomi Bardoff graduated from Bard College, where she majored in fine arts and studied watercolor, ink drawing, and book-making. She has also taken classes at the Chicago Center for Book and Paper Arts. Since moving to the San Francisco Bay Area, Naomi has been working on her illustration portfolio, working in an office, and volunteering and taking classes at the San Francisco Center for the Book. In addition to the SFCB blog, she blogs on her art blog, naomese - naomi bardoff's art blog; her tumblr, curiosities & clockwork (check out the book art tag on her tumblr to see more of her favorite book arts); and pins to her Pinterest boards. Her own book work can be found on her website.

12 Years of Babylon: An Interview with Myrtle Von Damitz, III

By Matt Runkle | Published: November 30, 2011

Not only is Myrtle Von Damitz, III a vastly talented painter, she’s also a bibliophilic dynamo. In 1999 she founded the New Orleans artist’s book exhibition, Babylon Lexicon, and has since continued to organize, curate, and serve as its chief muse in varying capacities. The twelfth annual Babylon Lexicon took place earlier this month, as usual [...]

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Matt Runkle
Matt Runkle
Matt Runkle is a writer, cartoonist, and book artist. His work has appeared in The Collagist, on BOMBlog, and is forthcoming in Beecher's. He has taught workshops in fiction, comics art, visual narrative, sequential collage, and zine making. The third issue of his zine, RUNX TALES, will be released in 2012. You can visit his personal blog here.

Open Print Studio: Where the Magic Happens

By Annemarie Munn | Published: November 18, 2011

A quick dispatch from last Friday’s absolutely hoppin’ Open Print Studio: I was supervising this particular evening, but fellow OPS supervisor, and rockstar intern Meredith Hudson-Redfield was there, too, and she brought her senior projects class from CCA.  She used her OPS press time to give them an introduction to letterpress printing.  They learned how [...]

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Annemarie Munn
Annemarie Munn
Annemarie's abiding love of the broadside brought her to printmaking, book arts, and to SFCB, where she has been volunteering for almost two years. She is currently studying for her MFA in Fiction at SFSU, where she also studies printmaking and book arts.

Roadworks 2011: A Day in Pictures

By Rocket Caleshu | Published: October 5, 2011

Things have been a bit quiet on the blog front, but only because they have been so busy here at SFCB! Now that autumn is in full swing, we’ll have more time to sit down at our computers and document all the fun stuff that’s been going on. Let’s start things off with a pictorial [...]

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Rocket Caleshu
Rocket Caleshu
Rocket Caleshu is the Marketing and Communications Coordinator here at SFCB, and a freelance letterpress printer.

Nora Aoyagi featured at Roadworks: A Steamroller Printing Festival

By Allie Washkin | Published: August 2, 2011

SFCB is proud to announce Nora Aoyagi as one of the featured artists at our 8th Annual Roadworks: A Steamroller Printing Festival. Nora is a Bay Area artist and illustrator with a self-proclaimed “fondness for fairytales and fearsome creatures.” Residing in Berkeley, her drawings, paintings, and prints reflect her taste for the dark side, inspired [...]

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Allie Washkin
Allie Washkin
Allie Washkin, SFCB's newest marketing intern, is earning a BA in Creative Writing at SFSU. Born and raised in the Bay Area, she has cultivated a love and devotion to coffee, airports, adventures, and the written word. She often walks, for hours on end, with nothing but ideas... Keep moving forward, and there will be light. Better said by Frank O'Hara: "You are gorgeous and I'm coming."

Eric Rewitzer featured at Roadworks: A Steamroller Printing Festival 2011

By Allie Washkin | Published: July 28, 2011

SFCB is proud to announce Eric Rewitzer as one of the featured artists at our 8th Annual Roadworks: A Steamroller Printing Festival. Eric, aka the Lonely Robot, is a Bay Area painter and printmaker who seeks a constant “search for identity in a world of automatons, beauty, Californians and chaos” (according to his website, http://rewitzer.typepad.com/). [...]

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Allie Washkin
Allie Washkin
Allie Washkin, SFCB's newest marketing intern, is earning a BA in Creative Writing at SFSU. Born and raised in the Bay Area, she has cultivated a love and devotion to coffee, airports, adventures, and the written word. She often walks, for hours on end, with nothing but ideas... Keep moving forward, and there will be light. Better said by Frank O'Hara: "You are gorgeous and I'm coming."

Rigel Stuhmiller featured at Roadworks: A Steamroller Printing Festival 2011

By Allie Washkin | Published: July 21, 2011

SFCB is proud to announce Bay Area artist Rigel Stuhmiller as one of the featured artists at our 8th Annual Roadworks: A Steamroller Printing Festival. Rigel specializes in printmaking, illustration, design, and storyboarding. Her diverse body of work includes elegant vegetable prints, farm logos, comics, and so much more. Her style is sweet and whimsical, [...]

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Allie Washkin
Allie Washkin
Allie Washkin, SFCB's newest marketing intern, is earning a BA in Creative Writing at SFSU. Born and raised in the Bay Area, she has cultivated a love and devotion to coffee, airports, adventures, and the written word. She often walks, for hours on end, with nothing but ideas... Keep moving forward, and there will be light. Better said by Frank O'Hara: "You are gorgeous and I'm coming."

Anagram Press, featured at Roadworks: A Steamroller Printing Festival 2011

By Allie Washkin | Published: July 14, 2011

Anagram (n.): a word, phrase or name formed by rearranging the letters of another So it turns out that neither the letters of Chandler O’Leary nor Jessica Springs’ names can be rearranged to spell out Anagram Press, the name of their printing press. However, were it possible, it would be entirely fitting, as they are [...]

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Allie Washkin
Allie Washkin
Allie Washkin, SFCB's newest marketing intern, is earning a BA in Creative Writing at SFSU. Born and raised in the Bay Area, she has cultivated a love and devotion to coffee, airports, adventures, and the written word. She often walks, for hours on end, with nothing but ideas... Keep moving forward, and there will be light. Better said by Frank O'Hara: "You are gorgeous and I'm coming."

Kyle Durrie & the Moveable Type Project

By Allie Washkin | Published: July 12, 2011

Editor’s note: We’re excited to introduce new SFCB blogger Allie Washkin, our most excellent communications intern, with this recap of the Moveable Type: Letterpress in a Studio/Truck event from this weekend. Welcome, Allie, we’re so pleased to have you on board as a contributor. The sun and the presses were hot on Saturday here at [...]

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Allie Washkin
Allie Washkin
Allie Washkin, SFCB's newest marketing intern, is earning a BA in Creative Writing at SFSU. Born and raised in the Bay Area, she has cultivated a love and devotion to coffee, airports, adventures, and the written word. She often walks, for hours on end, with nothing but ideas... Keep moving forward, and there will be light. Better said by Frank O'Hara: "You are gorgeous and I'm coming."