SF Design Week: Contemporary Bindings of Private Press Books | SF

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2019 San Francisco Design Week

Designers of all disciplines are united by the drive to solve problems, advance aesthetics, and re-think the future. The increasing global collaboration among visual designers, industrial designers, strategists, writers, photographers, videographers, illustrators, and artists has created a community of purpose in today’s complex world.

2019 San Francisco Design Week
June 20-28, 2019
Cost: There are events that are free, but some may have admission fees.

The 2019 theme of CommUNITY honors the design discipline’s global unity, which will be celebrated at the opening night party on June 20, 2019 when leading San Francisco and acclaimed international designers showcase original artifacts they have produced especially for the event—posters, typeface, product, sculpture, motion graphic or artwork–– a response to the concept of “communicating unity.”

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Saturday, June 6, 2015
2019 San Francisco Design Week

Fifty-nine binders and nine private presses from North America, Canada and Britain collaborated to form an exhibition that demonstrates the relationship of the binding design to the printed book. Because many of the binders have chosen the same title to work on, it also highlights the differing approaches to the same text. Samples of the texts and illustrations are shown alongside the bindings. The relationship between private presses and bookbinders is longstanding and it is hoped that this extra element to the show will provide the presses with a more rounded appreciation of the work on display. The exhibition is curated by Lester Capon, a Fellow with Designer Bookbinders, the sponsor of the competition for which the bindings were created.

Exhibition Dates
June 6 thru July 5, 2015

Participating Private Presses
Arion Press (USA), Barbarian Press (Canada), Incline Press (UK), The Lone Oak Press (USA), Midnight Paper Sales (USA), Old School Press (UK), Old Stile Press (UK), Shanty Bay Press (Canada), The Whittington PRess (UK).

A fully illustrated catalogue of all the bindings may be purchased from San Francisco Center for the Book.

Sponsored by the Kahle Austin Foundation, San Francisco Foundation and Grants for the Arts.

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