Stanza 153 Press

In Spring 2017 each student selected a quote by an important typographer or designer. Each quote was handset and printed in the Stanza 153 Press shop at San Francisco State University. Special thanks to Prof. Mario Laplante for making the types in the printmaking room of the Art Department available to our design students. The quotes were printed on either Rives BFK or Stonehenge paper, approximately 12 x 18. Go to high res images of the broadsides.

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01. Choice of Typeface, by Jost Hochuli & Robin Kinross
Broadside by Biagio Abdelmannan.

02. A Fool Cannot Be an Artist, by Eric Gill
Broadside by Kristina Brandt.

03. Technical Erudition, by Edmund Bishop
Broadside by Sam Burks.

04. Typographic Design Process, by Thomas James Cobden
Broadside by Domenic Decarlo.

05. Word Space, by Adrian Frutiger
Broadside by Marvin Esquivel.

06. The new typography, by Jan Tschichold
Broadside by Tony Li.

07. Fifty Penguin years (book review)
Broadside by Jessica Lim.

08. I Am Type, By Frederic W. Goudy
Broadside by Korina Moreno.

09. The practice of typography, by Theodore Low De vinne
Broadside by A.J. Plummer.

10. Typography exists to honor content, by Robert Bringhurst
Broadside by Paige Schouten.

11. Compromise, by Eric Gill
Broadside by Justin Sisk.

12. New Techniques, New Craftsmanship, by Adrian Frutiger
Broadside by Hugo Suarez.

13. The Skeleton of a Letter, by Adrian Frutiger
Broadside by Wayne Yuan.

14. Detail in Typography, by Jost Hochuli
Broadside by Spencer Zak.

A Specimen Book of Type Faces from Stanza 153 Press is our first publication. It was hand produced by the students of the DAI 226 Modern Letterpress Printing class, Spring 2016, San Francisco State University, Pino Trogu, instructor. Below is a slide show of the pages from the book. To see all pages as individual image, visit the specimen book flickr album. You can also download the specimen book PDF high-res version (18MB) or smaller size PDF file (5.5MB). The colophon from the book is included below after the slide show.

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A Specimen Book of Type Faces from Stanza 153 Press

Colophon

This book was handset & printed on a Challenge Proof Press by the students of DAI 226 Modern Letterpress Printing, San Francisco State University, Spring 2016. Pino Trogu, from the Design Department, was the instructor.

Each student composed & printed a page with a favorite quote & one with a personal design, using a variety of large-size wooden letters & other printing elements. The students also composed & printed the additional pages. A Specimen Book of Type Faces from Stanza 153 Press is our first publication. Sixty numbered copies were assembled & wire-o bound in Room 153, Fine Arts Building, in May 2016.

Special thanks to Nathan Atkinson, Tom Bier, Kurt Daw, Meredith Eliassen, Les Ferriss, Walter & Norman Hicks, Lizzy Hirsch, Eric Holub, Michael Karner, Friday lunch group, Fritz Klinke, Peter Koch, Diana Kohnke, LCA & DAI at SFSU, Nancy Noble, The Greenwood Press, & Mattie Taormina.

Numbered pages, arranged in alphabetical order by last name, include quotes selected and hand-set by each student. Beginning of each quote is given below:

I want — Andy An  p.1
Parse — Corey Blevins  p.2
Because — Garrett Frisbey  p.3
Goodbye — Carlos Garcia  p.4
When — Francheska Machado  p.5
Kites — Travis Mackin  p.6
Though — Nella Ocampo  p.7
Feet — Natalie Reclosado  p.8
The way — Sinclair Riley  p.9
Fashion — Jessica Rosario  p.10
The function — Shea Sjoberg  p.11
The ratchet — Pino Trogu  p.12
To live— Audrey Walker  p.13

You are invited to join us on Friday, May 20, 2016, from 1 to 4 PM, as we celebrate the birth of our first publication: A Specimen Book of Type Faces from Stanza 153 Press.

The book was handset and printed on a Challenge 15MP Proof Press by the students of DAI 226 Modern Letterpress Printing, Spring 2016, a class taught by Pino Trogu, instructor in the Design and Industry Department at San Francisco State University. It includes a selection of type faces from the printing shop with accompanying quotes from writers and artists that illustrate each type face in use. In addition, each student printed a personal page using a variety of large-size wooden letters and other printing elements.

The shop is located in Room 153, on the first floor of the Fine Arts Building on the campus of San Francisco State University. The fully accessible entrance, near Tapia Drive., is directly across from the Humanities Building.

Come tour the shop and meet the typographers, compositors and printers for an afternoon of letterforms, words, and conversation. Refreshments will be served.

Andy An
Corey Blevins
Garrett Frisbey
Carlos Garcia
Francheska Machado
Travis Mackin
Nella Ocampo
Natalie Reclosado
Sinclair Riley
Jessica Rosario
Shea Sjoberg
Audrey Walker
Kimberly Wong
Lawrence Wong
Loxang Yang