Archetype Press Pasadena (4 results)

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.

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.