Instructor: Lang Ingalls This course is designed for students who have taken L1 Bookbinding and are ready to further develop skills and explore materials. Students will sew a textblock, making the Millimeter Binding with hooked endsheets. The class will cover the importance of bookblock preparation, the principles of a rounded spine, top-edge coloring, hand-sewn […]
Paul Chrzanowski’s presentation explores “books that Shakespeare might have read.” He donated his collection of nearly 150 early English books to the UCLA William Andrews Clark Memorial Library. The earliest printed work is Cordyal of the four last and final things, a book printed in 1479 by William Caxton, England’s first printer. The donation includes […]
A Lunch and Learn Discussion with Nita Sweeney. Unable to attend? No worries. Register anyway and receive the replay! If you’ve been around the memoir scene for very long, you’ve no doubt heard “Memoirs don’t sell.” As with any myth, there’s more that’s false about that statement than true. A more accurate statement is “Some […]
Learn about the Robin Seaman Award at our virtual info session on Tuesday, December 12th from 5:30–6:30 pm PST via Zoom. BAWiP is excited for our second year of the Robin Seaman Award. Launched earlier this year, the Robin Seaman Award supports women and non-binary people in the Bay Area in advancing their publishing […]
Join us for a Holiday Publishers Roundtable! We'll chat about the upcoming conference and more. Open to all PubWest members and guests, our Roundtables are not recorded.
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 could range from common questions like how to find clients in a particular field (say academic editing) to more situation-specific issues like why a particular […]
In The Gutenberg Galaxy (1962), Marshall McLuhan argued that significant changes in technology would generate massive cultural transformations that will permanently alter the form and function of the book. Fundamentals of bookmaking have not changed much since the contributions of Gutenberg, but the cultural environments in which they have been grounded, expanded, and received certainly […]
It’s that time of year! The holidays are upon us and what better time to get together, relax, and have some fun. Grab a mug of your favorite coffee or tea and join us for an early afternoon of holiday cheer. Share your 2023 wins and Tell what you are working on for 2024! You can’t reach […]
Join us for a KRAZY KRAFTS DAY at the Printing Museum, a creative day of printing and crafts for the whole family. All are welcome, whether you are a kid or a kid at heart that just loves to make stuff! Activities throughout the day include letterpress printing cards, bookmarks and keepsakes. Participants will be […]
with Tammie Knight Make Your Own Miniature: Letterform Holiday Café! Design your own miniature holiday-themed café in this delightful in-person workshop. Over the course of six hours, miniaturist Tammie Knight will take you on a 1:12 design journey. As you create your own cafe, she will join you, sharing her process, tips, and tricks along […]
“When I started bookbinding, I always felt limited by the tools I had. 30 years later I have all the best tools imaginable. Yet the bench where I make DAS Bookbinding videos is tiny and 90% of what I do is done with the tools hanging on a small wall area. I could easily have […]
This coffee chat centers people who work as editors and are living with disability and/or chronic illness. It is open to everyone. The idea was partly inspired by an active peer group currently hosted by the Society of Authors (https://www.societyofauthors.org/Groups/Authors-Disabilities-Illnesses-Network). Group agreements that will be open for discussion at the start of the chat: * […]