Week of Events
Open Set 2025 Competition & Exhibition
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 both new binders and professionals and is open to binders around the world. We invite you to participate!
Introduction to Modern Type Design
with Kel Troughton During this 10-week online workshop, which meets on Wednesday evenings from January 31–April 10 (no class on February 21), you will create your own original typefaces as you gain an understanding of the methodologies and software used to produce high-quality digital type. The primary goal of this workshop is to show […]
Sunday, March 3, 2024
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Featured March 3, 2024 -Featured BABA Sunday Session
BABA Sunday Session
Come join our member-led Sunday session to learn a book art skill or project.
Monday, March 4, 2024
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Featured March 4, 2024 -Featured Bibliophiles Beware: The Situationist International and the Art & Politics of Cultural Hijacking
Bibliophiles Beware: The Situationist International and the Art & Politics of Cultural Hijacking
Active between 1957 and 1972, The Situationist International (S.I.) was a revolutionary alliance of artists, intellectuals, architects and political theorists that is hailed as the “last avant-garde” of the 20th century. One of the organization’s core concepts is that of détournement, which can be understood as the subversion of established cultural commodities as a means […]
Tuesday, March 5, 2024
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Featured March 5, 2024 -Featured Near North Editors Meeting
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Featured March 5, 2024 -Featured Make Icons Editable, Animated, and Colorful with Font Technologies
Near North Editors Meeting
The Near North Editors meet on the first Tuesday of every month (except for months with holidays around that time, in which case look out for special updates). This month's meeting will be held via Zoom. This event is free and open to all editors.
Make Icons Editable, Animated, and Colorful with Font Technologies
with Wenting Zhang Discover new ways to make icons customizable, animate-able, colorful, and recolor-able by utilizing variable font and color font technology. With the latest developments in variable and color fonts, typography and iconography are becoming enriched! Join us for a talk with Wenting Zhang, co-founder and CEO of Typogram, who will share new ways to […]
Wednesday, March 6, 2024
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Featured March 6, 2024 -Featured Kirkpatrick Speaker Series: Nicholson Baker
Kirkpatrick Speaker Series: Nicholson Baker
Please join us for an enriching conversation on the cultural weight of paper as Arion welcomes author Nicholson Baker as the first Kirkpatrick Speaker of 2024. Celebrated novelist and culture critic Nicholson Baker will deliver a spirited talk titled “The Weight of Paper” exploring the cultural and physical gravity of the paper book in a […]
Thursday, March 7, 2024
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Featured March 7, 2024 -Featured From the Bench of celeste hernández
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Featured March 7, 2024 -Featured Salon Series 47: The Complete Commercial Artist: Making Modern Design in Japan, 1928–1930
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Featured March 7, 2024 -Featured The Power and Progress of Women’s Voices
From the Bench of celeste hernández
Welcome to From the Bench, SFCB's series of short studio tours with friends near and far. From favorite tools to works in progress, you never know what you'll learn about from these amazing artists. This month we'll chat with artist celeste hernández. celeste is a trans, non-binary Mexican artist who lives and works in Tijuana, Baja […]
Salon Series 47: The Complete Commercial Artist: Making Modern Design in Japan, 1928–1930
with Gennifer Weisenfeld Join us for a conversation with the author of our latest book, an exploration of modernist commercial design in Japan. Toward the end of the 1920s, Japanese designers pursued a radical new vision for their profession. Engaging modernist and avant-garde trends from abroad, refashioning local graphic and calligraphic forms, and using the […]
The Power and Progress of Women’s Voices
We welcome authors Joan Gelfand, Jia Ling Wang, Salumeh Eslamieh, Sheila Smith McKoy, and Christina Vo in conversation with Women’s National Book Association president Elise Marie Collins, in a celebration of women writers, artists, and changemakers for International Women’s Day. By centering women’s lives - socially, politically, and historically - in their work, these authors faithfully capture the diverse […]
Friday, March 8, 2024
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Featured March 8, 2024 -Featured Compose Yourself: An exploration of historic and contemporary daredevil typesetting
Compose Yourself: An exploration of historic and contemporary daredevil typesetting
Typesetting for letterpress printing presents multiple challenges: aligning each letter, ensuring ideal word and letter spacing, kerning if necessary, then locking it all up… even defying gravity in a chase. Daredevil typesetting becomes even more challenging as type is formed in circles, curves, waves, and complex illustrations such as landscapes or buildings. Jessica will give […]
Saturday, March 9, 2024
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