We’re happy to announce that we’re now accepting entries for the 48th annual book show. You can find more information here.
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Events & Announcements
LETTERFORM ARCHIVE | A Font and the Search for One Man’s Fate
July 16, 2019Hosted/Organized by: Letterform Archive
A graphic designer’s search for inspiration leads to a cache of letters and the mystery of one man’s fate during WWII.
During the depths of World War II, Frenchman Marcel Heuzé mailed letters to his wife and three young daughters from a labor camp in Berlin. His beautiful looping cursive carried tender words of love along with testimony about day-to-day survival inside the camp. Sixty years later, graphic designer and type designer Carolyn Porter found Marcel’s letters at an antique store in Stillwater, Minnesota, and began to transform his handwriting into a modern computer font.
Read more...SF ART BOOK FAIR
July 19, 2019 to July 21, 2019Hosted/Organized by: Minnesota Street Project, Colpa, and Park Life
The SF Art Book Fair is an annual multi-day festival of artists’ publications. The event is FREE and OPEN to the public and features artists’ books, art catalogs, monographs, periodicals, zines, printed ephemera, and artists’ multiples.
The mission of the fair is to foster the unique art publishing community of the Bay Area while providing a platform for national and international publishers to exhibit their work to a new audience.
Read more...MECHANICS’ INSTITUTE | Writers Lunch: A Mixer to Fill and Form Writers’ Groups
July 19, 2019Hosted/Organized by: Mechanics’ Institute
Are you interested in joining a writers’ group or connecting with other MI writers? Come to this networking hour and learn about the writers’ groups that are currently looking for new members and meet other writers that are interested in forming a group.
Read more...WILD + AIGA SF | Gender Neutral Design
July 24, 2019Hosted/Organized by: AIGA SF
Stereotypes and gender biases are ever present in our lives. We’re stereotyped for the clothes we wear, foods we eat, and even the media we choose to consume. Design stereotypes and biases are no different. As designers, it’s our responsibility to overcome these biases of what we unconsciously believe is “feminine” or “masculine.”
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