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February 2023

Tue 7
Featured Featured January 21 - February 21

Call for Submissions | CBAA Book Arts Series 2023

Zoom

The College Book Art Association is excited to be continuing our series of on-line presentations and we are soliciting proposals for 2023. The deadline is February 28th.   Presentations can fall into one of three categories: §  Option A - Talking through the production process of one project / artist book §  Option B - Workshop / […]

Tue 7
Featured Featured January 28 - March 19

Book Positively Charged: Copier Art in the Bay Area Since the 1960s

San Francisco Public Library, Koret Auditorium

San Francisco Center for the Book and San Francisco Public Library join forces to present a retrospective look at the role the color copier played in avant-garde art movements in the Bay Area. Positively Charged: Copier Art in the Bay Area Since the 1960s comprises a single exhibition across two venues that explores the histories […]

Tue 7
Featured Featured February 2 @ 1:00 pm - February 26 @ 6:00 pm

Pop-up Exhibition: New Ideas in Visual Language with Vivian Sming

Letterform Archive 2325 Third St Floor 4R, San Francisco, CA

New Ideas in Visual Language features new Letterform Archive acquisitions from Curatorial Fellow Vivian Sming. This pop-up exhibition presents books and prints that highlight unusual letterforms, modular typography, unique and collaborative reading experiences, and contemporary artists using language in their work.

Wed 8
Featured Featured February 8 @ 6:00 pm - 7:30 pm

Terrible! Thrilling! True! Collecting the Books, Brochures & Ephemera of the Donner Party

The Philosophical Research Society 3910 Los Feliz Blvd, Los Angeles, CA

In the history of Westward Expansion, the Donner Party stands alone. Their story has been the inspiration for a bounty of books and pamphlets, both serious and some not so much. The literary history of the Donner Party runs the gamut from histories, biographies, fiction, epic poems, plays and even a cookbook! After more than […]

Thu 9
Featured Featured February 9 @ 6:00 pm

Chinese New Year and The Year of the Rabbit: What Will It Bring?

Mechanics' Institute


with renowned Bay Area author Maxine Hong Kingston, historian and former Chinese New Year parade director David Lei and educator Linda Lei The year of the Water Rabbit starting January 22, 2023 symbolizes a time of longevity, peace, and prosperity in Chinese culture. Join this celebration to find out what's in store during this year […]

Fri 10
Featured Featured February 10 - February 12

55th California International Antiquarian Book Fair

Pasadena Convention Center

This three-day event features fine and rare materials from around the globe, including manuscripts, modern first editions, children’s books, ephemera, maps and autographs, as well as antiquarian books on a vast array of topics.

Sat 11
Featured Featured February 11 @ 12:00 pm - 2:00 pm

Mystery and Romance Panel

Zoom

Come join seven experts as they discuss the tips, tricks and tribulations of putting romance into their mysteries (and mystery into their romances). Featuring: Beth Barany, Linda Gunther, Laurie R. King, Margaret Lucke, Thena MacArthur, Eileen Rendahl and Tammy Qualls. Moderator: M.M. Chouinard.

Free
Sat 11
Featured Featured February 11 @ 12:00 pm - 2:00 pm

WILD February Meetup

Yerba Buena Gardens 750 Howard St, San Francisco, CA

Join us Saturday, February 11, for the first Women in Leadership & Design (WILD) meetup of 2023! We’ll meet at 12 pm at the MLK Memorial Fountain in the Yerba Buena Gardens. Bring your lunch and we’ll eat together, then walk to the Museum of the African Diaspora (MoAD) at 1 pm. We’ll have complimentary […]

Free
Tue 14
Featured Featured February 14 @ 12:00 pm - 1:30 pm

A Byte Sized History of Computer Typography with Ben Zotto

Zoom

This Letterform Lecture will take you on a whirlwind tour of bitmaps, cathode rays, and how type and computer technology have evolved together. This talk is part how-it-works and where-it-came-from, and part love letter to what is inevitably lost to obsolescence. While print has often been the ultimate goal of "digital" typography, there is a […]

Free
Thu 16
Featured Featured February 16 - February 19

San Francisco Writers Conference

Hyatt Regency San Francisco

This will be the 19th Celebration of Craft, Commerce and Community for all writers. Attendees will join with 100+ presenters and fellow writers from across the country and around the world at this year’s event. The SFWC events are consistently rated among the top writers’ conferences anywhere. Our goal is to help writers become published authors as […]

Thu 16
Featured Featured February 16 @ 12:00 pm - 1:30 pm

Growing Up Underground with Steve Heller, Jon Sueda

Zoom

Steve Heller cut his typographic and design teeth working on art staffs and art directing underground newspapers in the ‘60s and early ‘70s. His current memoir Growing Up Underground: A Memoir of Counterculture New York (PAPress) tells the story of going from radical neophyte ad hoc designer to working on the most prestigious newspaper page […]

Free
Thu 16
Featured Featured February 16 @ 3:30 pm - 6:00 pm

Historical Black Publications Inspire Contemporary InDesign Projects

Zoom

Silas Munro and his company, Polymode, use InDesign and other modern tools of graphic design to create award-winning projects from book design to museum displays. But what animates him? What are his light bulb moments? How does he do it? No easy answer, of course. But among his influences are the rich lineages of publications […]

Free
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