Category Archives: Workshop

Grendl And Her Spooky Third Thursday Open House: Halloween Edition

By Michael Shanahan | Published: October 25, 2011

Hi bookish fans! I just wanted to give a gouly shout out to everyone who attended last Thursday night’s open studio slash Halloween party. All were aghast as we demonstrated letterpress printing for our unwitting guests. I’m pretty sure Grendl Löfkvist (our high demo priestess), clad in all black, didn’t even dress up specially for [...]

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Michael Shanahan
Creator and Editor for Strange Cessation Publications (www.strangecessation.com) & GEMS Music & Arts Magazine, and current SFCB Volunteer 2011.

A Book, A Book!

By Nina | Published: October 14, 2011

 My first multi-section hard cover book, finished! I have been in love with books since before I could read (Harold and the Purple Crayon, anyone?), and I’m always making simple books and zines but I had never made a ‘real’ book. You know, one with multiple sections and a hard, cloth wrapped cover and spine? [...]

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Nina
Nina
Nina Eve has been obsessed with books since receiving Harold and the Purple Crayon as a child before she knew how to read. While receiving her BFA in Photography from the San Francisco Art Institute she took as many book and printmaking classes as possible. She now spends her time working as the Project Coordinator at SFCB, making and selling her printed and bookish wares, and learning French.

Screenprinting at the Mission Cultural Center with Marsha Shaw

By Allie Washkin | Published: August 24, 2011

Last week, Marsha Shaw hosted a screenprinting workshop at the Mission Cultural Center. In this lively class, students learned about the versatile screen-printing process from beginning to end. Using a variety of methods, including hand drawing on film and cutting rubylyth for color separations, the students used their own photographic images, embellishing color and flair [...]

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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."

SFCB Workshop: The Typography of Handwriting

By Nina | Published: August 17, 2011

Yesterday I had my first session of a handwriting to typography workshop at the San Francisco Center for the Book. The class is taught by calligrapher Georgianna Greenwood. The workshop is challenging and incredibly interesting and focuses on learning to be more consistent with your handwriting so that you can work it into your art. Handwriting [...]

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Nina
Nina
Nina Eve has been obsessed with books since receiving Harold and the Purple Crayon as a child before she knew how to read. While receiving her BFA in Photography from the San Francisco Art Institute she took as many book and printmaking classes as possible. She now spends her time working as the Project Coordinator at SFCB, making and selling her printed and bookish wares, and learning French.

Introduction to Letterpress: Business Cards

By Naomi Bardoff | Published: June 23, 2011

A few weeks ago I took this great Introduction to Letterpress: Business Cards, taught by Paula Goldstein. There’s going to be another one on July 19. It was a wonderful introduction to the practice of letterpress! Paula did a great job of giving us lots to do, demonstrating that there was lots more to learn, [...]

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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.

Introduction to Letterpress: A Review

By Hannah Schuster | Published: May 25, 2011

I have been volunteering at SFCB for a few months now, and have spent the majority of my time jealously staring at anyone expertly using the Vandercook Presses. I would think to myself- “Someday, Hannah, someday you will have the skills required to operate such a glorious machine!” Little did I know, the basic skills [...]

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Hannah Schuster
Hannah has been an avid book reader since her youth, and through a happy accident discovered the amazing art of book binding and letterpress. She has lived in San Francisco for three years and spends her time (when not occupied with all things book) taking photographs on an impractical camera and trolling the streets collecting twigs and discarded items.

Fresh off the Press: Gift Certificates!

By Hannah Schuster | Published: May 24, 2011

We are now very happy to offer our freshly printed Gift Certificates! For those of you with loved ones subtly hinting at how much they’d like to take a class, or rent studio time at the SFCB, fear no more! Our Gift Certificates are hand made here at the center and are available to purchase [...]

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Hannah Schuster
Hannah has been an avid book reader since her youth, and through a happy accident discovered the amazing art of book binding and letterpress. She has lived in San Francisco for three years and spends her time (when not occupied with all things book) taking photographs on an impractical camera and trolling the streets collecting twigs and discarded items.

Workshop Spotlight: Feathers, Fur and Scales

By Maggie Engebretson | Published: April 18, 2011
Courtney Cerruti

Here’s a quick peek at this weekend’s Paper Animals workshop. Led by Courtney Cerruti (San Francisco’s resident paper creature expert). Workshop attendees Lynne Stevens, Kathleen Ryder, and Aba Nathan layered found paper and recycled dictionary pages over wire armatures to bring these gorgeous totem animals to life. The photos below capture the animals as works-in-progress, [...]

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Maggie Engebretson

Rik Olson: Master Printmaker

By Rocket Caleshu | Published: March 17, 2011
Rik Olson Print

For nearly twelve years, we have been lucky enough to have master printmaker Rik Olson as an SFCB instructor. Making the journey down from Sebastopol every few months, he brings a vast wealth of knowledge about all things illustration. In his own words, Rik has built a career “specializing in wood engraving, scratchboard, pen& ink, [...]

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