Archetype Press (10 results)

Condition: Good. 4to. [4 pp.] Folded Sheet, Letterpress On Fine Paper, Deckled Edge, Near Fine. One of 500.

Archetype Press (illustrator). folio. cloth with printed design on front cover. 19+(1) pages. Limited to 105 copies, set up and printed on a handpress by Wilder Bentley ("and his faithful spouse, Ellen") on dampened Strathmore Wayside Text for at The Archetype Press in Euclid Court, Berkeley, Ca and issued for private distribution among members of The Arts Club & their friends. Printed in "a bastard version" of Caslon Oldface italic and Goudy Modern roman. Wood-engraved abstraction of the initial i for the Prolegomena, vignette on the title-page, and design for the front cover by John C. Haley. Excerpts from chronicles of The Arts Club's past season. "It is not primarily designed to explain to the world in general what we are, what we do, how well we reason, or how badly we sing. Rather it is a souvenir, intended to revive some of our very happy memories." Finely printed. Bottom corner bumped, else near fine. cloth with printed design on front cover.

Soft cover. Condition: As New. In this creative chapbook, the poem ÒThe Blackbird Whistling (Or Just After)Ó by Martha Ronk (inspired by ÒThirteen Ways of Looking at a BlackbirdÓ by Wallace Stevens) was broken up into its six stanzas. Pairs of ArtCenter students were tasked with designing, printing, and binding each stanza in its own booklet. 7 booklets (4 x 7 Ó) and title sheet (4 x 7 Ó). Unpaginated, each 4-8 pp. Printed in black and color with various image making techniques including linocut, creative typography, pressure prints, and pop-up leaves. Letterpress printed with handset type. Black, white, and gray paper wrappers sewn at spine. A fine copy. One of fifty copies. Designed printed and bound by the students in the ÒText, Image, and the Written WordÓ course at the ArtCenter College of Design in Fall 2017: Devin Lee, Juan Pesquera, Hyek Im, Melanie Yu, Hera Cho, Lars Gresslien Fiva, Matthew Goldstein, Rebecca Kim, Hilda Rios, Simon Baek, and Lovisa Boucher. The class was taught by Gloria Kondrup, Dennis Phillips, and Steve Turk.

This collection comprises three of AlbonÕs poems: ÒUnlike,Ó ÒAlso,Ó and ÒBeside.Ó Each poem spans multiple pages, with the illustrations for ÒUnlikeÓ appearing in yellow, ÒAlsoÓ in blue, and ÒBesideÓ in red, plus the two fold-out leaves in ÒAlsoÓ that reveal a beautiful geometric illustration in all three colors. 6 x 9 in. [26] ff., including wrappers. With two fold-out leaves. Vibrantly illustrated in color with large geometric designs throughout (using woodcuts and photopolymer plates). Hand-set and printed in Stempel Palatino, ATF Spartan, and ATF Stymie foundry type on Vandercook proof presses. Text paper is Mohawk Superfine. Hand-bound by Alex Ascencio in gray Rives BFK paper wrappers with blindstamped geometric shapes. Fine. No limitation given, but probably one of about fifty copies (based on other Archetype Press editions). Signed on the colophon by George Albon. Designed and printed by Art Center College of Design students Keith Oshiro, Kristine Lim, Landi Gonzalez, Lulubi Garcia, and Victor Artiga Rodriguez. The group of students worked closely with Albon and under the guidance of professors Gloria Kondrup, Dennis Phillips, and Steve Turk. George Albon (b. 1954) is the author of numerous poetry collections including Fire Break (2013), which won the Northern California Independent Booksellers Association Award for Poetry;Momentary Songs (2008); and Brief Capital of Disturbances (2003), which won a Book of the Year award from the Small Press Traffic literary foundation. AlbonÕs prose works include the collection Lyric Multiples (2018) and the essay ÒParadise of Meaning,Ó which was the 2002 George Oppen Memorial Lecture. His work has appeared inÊHambone,ÊNew American Writing, and the anthologiesÊBay Poetics (2006), The Gertrude Stein Awards in Innovative American Poetry (2005), andÊBlood and Tears: Poems for Matthew Shepard (1999).

ÒEstablished at the College in 1989, Archetype Press offers students the unique opportunity to practice what has become a Digital Age rarity: setting type and printing by hand. ArchetypeÕs collection of rare American and European metal foundry type, wood type and ornamentsÑoriginally belonging to Vernon SimpsonÕs legendary typesetting shop in HollywoodÑis the largest in California and among the largest of any design school in the country. The extensive metal and wood type collection resides in 2,500 antique wooden drawers. Students learn to set and print type on an impressive set of printing presses: nine Vandercook proof presses, a Chandler & Price platen press and a Heidelberg Windmill pressÓ (Archetype Press page on Art Center website). Quarto. 10 x 8 in. [60] pp. Designed and letter-press printed, by students of Art Center College of Design using foundry metal and wood type, photopolymer plates, linoleum cuts, and silk screens. Hand bound. 100% hemp paper. Cream-colored Coptic binding with lace over wrappers. A fine copy. One of 35 copies. The present work contains the printed works of 7=seven Art Center College of Design students addressing environmental precarity. A brief foreword by Professor Gloria Kondrup (project lead) reads, ÒOur awareness of the limitations and frailty of the environment is perhaps a reaction to the biological as well as psychological crisis of living in a world where the man-made environment has become increasingly destructive. A continuing discourse of environmentalism can perhaps reconnect the human spirit to the natural universe, and can create a voice, small or large, that addresses issues of consequence.Ó.

Mars's axial tilt is 25.19 degrees, which is similar to the axial tilt of the Earth. Hence the title. Gloria Kondrup, Director of Archetype Press: "The Mars Anthology book was in honor of the Pathfinder landing on Mars. . The students were asked to conceptually interpret any subject matter dealing with 'Mars'' [not necessarily the planet]. 8 Ó x 8 .Ó 42 folios (16 x 8Ó sheets, folded to create a four-page folio). Printed letterpress on Vandercook proof presses using metal foundry type, wood type, linoleum blocks, wood cuts, silk screens, laser-cut masonite blocks, zinc plates, and digital polymer plates. Printed on Legion Domestic Etching and Rives BFK papers. Housed in wraparound box, handmade by Alice Vaughn, with 1.25" wide pocket into which the folio fore-edges slip. A fine copy. One of 75 copies.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. FINE in slipcase; gilt-stamped quarter bound leather olive cloth sides. Beautiful hand-bound letterpress book. Appears unread with NO markings. Pasadena's finest new and used bookstore.

A tribute to Pasadena in type and illustration, presented by the students of Art Center College, under the direction of Gloria Kondrup and Heidrun Mumper-Drumm. Includes sections on the Colorado Street Bridge, the Rose Parade and Rose Court, Greene & Greene architecture, the Pacific Asia Museum, and Jackie Robinson, who grew up in Pasadena. Oblong quarto. [46] pp. Fifteen plates, printed on Japanese Mulberry paper, using linoleum blocks and photopolymer plates. Hand-bound by Alice Vaughan in quarter brown morocco over green cloth boards A fine copy in publisherÕs full tan cloth slipcase. Special bindery edition, limited to twenty-six copies, presented in a slipcase. There were also seventy-five regular copies.

This is one of the Archetype PressÕs most ambitious productions. It includes samples of the different kinds of type owned by the press, from the classic fonts like Bembo, Palatino, Garamond, Baskerville and Bodoni to those designed by the great designers of the twentieth-century such as Eric Gill, Jan Van Krimpen, Frederic Goudy, and Rudolf Koch, to more contemporary, whimsical ones. The Steven Heller illustration is a delightful color rendition of the historic Old Pasadena building. Fifty-three sheets, printed on rectos only, consisting of a half-title, title-page, introduction by Doyald Young, colophon leaf, an illustrated leaf containing an image transfer print by photographer Steven A. Heller, and forty-eight type specimens, featuring color and illustrations, printed by the students of Art Center, under the direction of Gloria Kondrup and Cody Clark. One of 120 copies, printed as a tribute to 40 Mills Place, the address at which the Archetype Press printed forty different projects. The Press has recently moved to new quarters. The sheets are loose, in a red cloth clamshell case, made by Alice Vaughan. The specimens were printed letterpress, using metal and wood type. A fine copy.

Condition: Good. 8vo. Five Pieces of Fine Printing, Letterpress mostly on Deckled Laid Paper, Includes one String-Bound Chapbook & four folded sheets, Black and other color inks, Illustrations, Very Good.