There is nothing better than a good notebook! Print a few sturdy covers on the Cylinder Press using wood and metal type. Learn what types of found materials work well when printing on the Cylinder Press or assembling a notebook at home. Discover how to create a quick assembly line with friends to bind a few notebooks quickly. The Handmade Letterpress Notebooks workshop will send students home with one to three completed notebooks as well as a few extra letterpress covers to make more notebooks later.

Materials to bring: None

Date & Time: Wednesdays, March 23 & 30, 2016 | 6:30pm-9:30pm

Workshop Fee: $135

Note: Please review our Registration Policies before signing up for a class. If you are registering within 3 days of the start date for this class, please call 415-565-0545 ex.105 to complete your registration 

About the Instructor | Lara Durback

Lara Durback teaches letterpress classes that integrate the use of foraged materials at the San Francisco Center for the Book. She has worked as the Studio Director of the Book Art Studio at Mills College. She especially enjoys fixing Vandercooks. Lara taught a letterpress course at Naropa University's Summer Writing Program, and gave a talk on printing at SFMOMA's Shop Talk series. You can see her printing and/or writing work in Drift Magazine, Mrs. Maybe, Bombay Gin, the UK journal Hi Zero, and The Artist's Book Yearbook 2012-13, Tripwire, and her archiving work at www.deepoakland.org(link is external). In 2013, with designer Andrew Kenower, she produced the letterpress publication Field Work: Poems on the Occasion of Mark diSuvero at Crissy Field for SFMOMA.