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Open Set 2025 Competition & Exhibition

American Academy of Bookbinding

The OPEN • SET 2025 Competition & Exhibition is an event in the United States featuring finely crafted bookbindings.  Sponsored by the American Academy of Bookbinding, it is designed to encourage […]

Intermediate/Advanced Fine Leather Binding

American Academy of Bookbinding

at the American Academy of Bookbinding taught by Don Glaister A course for students who have more experience in fine binding and the development of design bindings. Students will refine […]

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Letter Quest

Zoom CA

with Kelcey Gray Go on an alphabetic adventure with designer, educator, and author of Let’s Make Letters!, Kelcey Gray.   Are you seeking more adventurous ways of letter-making? During this […]

Introduction to Modern Type Design

Zoom CA

with Kel Troughton Design your own original typeface in 10 weeks! During this 10-week online course (meeting on Monday evenings from October 2-December 11—no meeting on November 20), you will […]

The Flexible Mirror: Contemporary Book Design Online Workshop

Zoom CA

with Kevin Barrett Kane, Emma Christine Hall   Learn the fundamentals of book design from seasoned pros, including layout, typesetting, cover design, and manufacturing. During this three-week online workshop (Tuesdays […]

Thinking With Your Hands

Zoom CA

with Cyrus Highsmith This hands-on workshop helps you explore different ways of drawing, making, and seeing letters. In this two-week workshop (two Wednesdays and Thursdays in a row, starting on […]

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Editors Helping Editors

Zoom CA

Join us for our "Editors Helping Editors" meeting. Bring your problems, big and small, as well as your thinking caps. We'll work together to solve event-goers quandaries and questions, which […]

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Type West 2024 In-Person Open House

Letterform Archive 2325 Third St Floor 4R, San Francisco

We're opening our classroom doors for you to get your burning questions answered about Type West, the west coast's only yearlong certificate program in type design! This event is a […]

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Catamaran Fall Launch Party

Mechanics' Institute


Mechanics' Institute is delighted to collaborate with Catamaran to celebrate their Fall 2023 edition. Featured writers include Stephen D. Gutierrez, Sean Stiny, Yaccaria Salvatierra, Dion O'Reilly, Jeff Ewing, Dan Haifley, […]

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Nancy Jooyoun Kim: What We Kept to Ourselves

Telegraph Hill Books 1501 Grant Ave, San Francisco

The New York Times bestselling author of The Last Story of Mina Lee returns with a propulsive and suspenseful new novel about a family that unravels when a stranger—who may hold the key to […]