SFCB showcases contemporary publishers and artists utilizing Risograph technology to create experimental and thought-provoking bookworks.
MWA NorCal invites you to a 6-session Zoom series to explore different aspects of AI. What is it—an existential threat or a cool new set of tools? Maybe both? What we know for sure is that it’s all around us and it’s here to stay. So, join us on the third Saturday of the month […]
The text block is fundamental to creating any typographic system, whether on the page or on screen. But what typeface to use and at what size? How do we determine line length and leading? And what about readability and hierarchy? Over the course of two days (Saturday to Sunday, September 14–15 from 9am–5pm), we will […]
Join us for an engaging event with your fellow PubWest members, featuring special guests Klaus Krogh and Andreas Stobberup from 2K/Denmark, the developers of Sustainable Typesetting®. For the past 37 years, 2K/Denmark has been a market leader in type design, book design, and typesetting for Bibles. Two years ago, they extended their expertise to the broader publishing […]
An essential piece in California Studies, Redemptive Dreams: Engaging Kevin Starr’s California offers the first critical engagement with the vision of California’s most ambitious interpreter. While Starr’s multifaceted and polymathic vision of California offered a unique gaze—synthesizing central features, big themes, and incredible problems with the propitious golden dream—his eight-volume California Dream series, along with several other books and […]
Join us and enjoy an in-depth beginners workshop. Learn one of the simplest binding stitches–the long stitch. Dating back to medieval Germany, it required little training while also being decorative. No experience necessary, but class-size is limited to 12 people per workshop. A great starting point for anyone new to bookbinding. Sign up today!
When scientist Carole Stivers began writing science fiction, she dreamed of readers she’d never met, enjoying and discussing her work. But she also dreamed of acceptance in “literary circles.” She secured an agent unfamiliar with sci-fi who saw cross-over potential for her debut novel, The Mother Code. What happened next was a crash course in the impact […]