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 […]
Coding Kinetic Type
with Romello Goodman Learn how to use HTML, CSS, and variable fonts to create animated type in this hands-on workshop. Every day designers use code to create experiences that are novel, dynamic, and playful. With code, we can unlock new and imaginative possibilities for typography through animation and interaction. Over the course of a weekend, […]
Sunday, March 17, 2024
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Monday, March 18, 2024
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Featured March 18, 2024 -Featured Redemptive Dreams: Engaging Kevin Starr’s California
Redemptive Dreams: Engaging Kevin Starr’s California
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 […]
Tuesday, March 19, 2024
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Featured March 19, 2024 -Featured The Hebrew Letter – a Calligrapher’s Journey
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Featured March 19, 2024 -Featured The Making of a Season with Johanna Pfaelzer
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Featured March 19, 2024 -Featured Developmental Editing Happy Hour
The Hebrew Letter – a Calligrapher’s Journey
with Izzy Pludwinski Join us for a peek into a personal journey through the ancient scribal traditions and the world of modern calligraphy. The Hebrew aleph-bet (technically an abjad) is one of the oldest alphabets in existence. Paleographically perhaps 3000 years old; mystically the Hebrew letters existed before the creation of the world. As the […]
The Making of a Season with Johanna Pfaelzer
Berkeley Repertory Theatre creates ambitious theatre that entertains and challenges its audiences, provokes civic engagement, and inspires people to experience the world in new and surprising ways. Artistic Director Johanna Pfaelzer joins Mechanics’ Institute to explore how Berkeley Rep became an international leader in innovative theatre. Pfaelzer will discuss the current season including Cult of Love by Leslye […]
Developmental Editing Happy Hour
Are you a developmental editor, or interested in developmental editing? Join us for an informal chat about this fun and fascinating variety of editing. This event is free to attend and open to all editors.
Wednesday, March 20, 2024
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Featured March 20, 2024 -Featured BABA Monthly Meeting
BABA Monthly Meeting
TBD who leads the meeting. We're meeting virtually on Zoom. BABA meets the third Wednesday evening of each month via Zoom. Members share books, work in progress and information about book events and resources.
Thursday, March 21, 2024
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Featured March 21, 2024 -Featured Editing With Disability/Chronic Illness
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Featured March 21, 2024 -Featured The Heroine’s Journey — A Template for Writers
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Featured March 21, 2024 -Featured The Intersection of Text and Image
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Featured March 21, 2024 -Featured Stanford d.school’s Design and Creativity Book Series
Editing With Disability/Chronic Illness
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: * […]
The Heroine’s Journey — A Template for Writers
A Lunch and Learn Discussion with Kate Farrell for Women’s History Month 2024 Unable to attend? No worries. Register anyway and receive the replay! Ever wonder why the movie Barbie was a “particular ripple in the universe” as Greta Gerwig, its screenwriter/director, described it? How did the movie appeal more than the average chick flick and become a […]
The Intersection of Text and Image
In this session, Nigel French demonstrates techniques for blending the boundary between text and image. Featuring InDesign, with a strong supporting cast of Photoshop and Illustrator, Nigel will show a series of real-world projects and share his favorite techniques for placing typography at the center of your visual communication. About the Presenter Nigel French is […]
Stanford d.school’s Design and Creativity Book Series
Join us at Mechanics' Institute for an in-person celebration of Stanford d.school's ten books, published by Ten Speed Press. These books are delightful, compact paperbacks filled with mindsets to help you think like a designer and methods to give you the tools to navigate the ambiguous, sticky challenges you face. Join Carissa Carter (author of The Secret […]
Friday, March 22, 2024
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Saturday, March 23, 2024
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