Last week, at the National Stationery Show in NYC, letterpress printers from across the country showed off their newest wares. This week, on the Left Coast, at the San Francisco Center for the Book, a handful of Bay Area letterpress printers will present a program entitled Letterpress as a Business. The evening will begin with a virtual tour of the panelists’ print shops. My ears and I will be there, and I will file a detailed report next week on F&W. Look at the printerly invitation, whose color gradation was accomplished with a split fountain. Yum.
Here’s who’s who: the program was conceived by John Sullivan, founder of Logos Graphics (and current board president of the Pacific Center for the Book Arts). Sullivan will moderate, and the discussion promises to be lively, candid, and perhaps even a tad curmudgeonly. On the panel will be Joel Benson of Dependable Letterpress, Norman Clayton of Classic Letterpress, Susie Gelbron of Carrot & Stick Press, and Patrick Reagh of Patrick Reagh Printers, Inc. A handsome handful of business cards, to be sure!
Letterpress as a Business, Thursday, May 27, 2010, from 6 to 8 pm at the San Francisco Center for the Book, 300 De Haro Street (entrance on 16th Street).
