The San Francisco Center for the Book

2009
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The Bay Area is a center for the thriving art of hand bookbinding according to the San Francisco Chronicle.

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Welcome to The San Francisco Center for the Book. We're a place where you can learn about the many arts and crafts of the book. Through workshops, exhibitions and public events, the SFCB promotes both knowledge of traditional book arts and exploration of experimental book forms. Have fun browsing our website.

To see what's going on at the SFCB day by day, check out our Calendar. Or click on Workshops to learn about classes in Printing, Binding and Related Arts. Like looking at pictures? Click Book Pix for an eye-popping visual database of the books we teach. Learn more About Us by clicking here. For driving directions and public-transit suggestions, click here. And, to find out more about our renting time in our studio, click here.

Production: The Sophisticated Chapbook with Aaron Cohick

Learn how to design and construct structurally sophisticated chapbooks efficiently and cheaply. We will cover a series of simple binding techniques as well as how to "upgrade" them to make more complex books. There will be discussion centered on relating form, function, and content, and other design issues, as well as the practical nuts and bolts of chapbook publishing.

Highlights

A Celebration of Poetry and Printing
Friday Jul 10, 7pm
Join poets and letterpress printers Lisa Rappoport and Katherine Case for a celebration of the long tradition of letterpress printed poetry. Letterpress broadsides created by the poets will also be available.

Online registration!
You can now register for available workshops online. Just click on the cart icon on the workshop description page.

Exhibition: Once Upon a Book
May 4 - Aug 07,2009
This show explores the creative process in the work of six critically acclaimed illustrators: Elisa Kleven, Remy Charlip, Maira Kalman, David Macauley, Chris Raschka and Brian Selznick.

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