Logos Graphics

John Pulling a Print

We’re excited about the opening of a new exhibition at 1:AM Gallery tonight! For this special exhibition, we collaborated with Brian Goggin to screen print various images of his Defenestration project.

Please come by the opening this evening to see the multi-color prints, meet the artist and support a great local cause! There will be live music and performances this evening too. Doors open at 6 pm.

1:AM Gallery
1000 Howard Street (@ 6th Street)
San Francisco, CA

Defenestration Screen Print

Defenestration Screen Print

Defenestration Screen Print

Defenestration Screen Print

Thanks to everyone who came out for our intaglio salon last Saturday — it was our largest salon yet!

Here are two upcoming classes in March. Both were among our most popular in 2009:

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Pre-Press for Letterpress Class
Wednesday, March 10, 2010
7-9 pm
$35

Press Sheet Layout

Come find out how to reduce your film and plate costs with our prepress and file preparation tips! In this class, find out the most cost-effective way to prepare your files for plate production, saving you both time and money.

We’ll cover digital layout schemes, handling Photoshop images, type, and little-known tricks for creating letterpress-friendly designs.

This class is a great opportunity to check out our Heidelberg Windmill letterpress. Participants will be eligible for a 15% discount on their next film or plate order from Logos Graphics.

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Introductory Heidelberg Windmill Letterpress Class
Saturday, March 27, 2010
11 am – 3 pm
$75

Heidelberg Windmill

We welcome you to join us for a one-day introductory Windmill class! This is a wonderful opportunity to learn the set up and printing basics for the Heidelberg Windmill letterpress.

We’ll include tips and tricks for make ready, inking secrets, and printing onto a wide variety of papers (including envelopes!).

Participants will have multiple opportunities to set up and run this fantastic letterpress. Class size is limited to 6 people.

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For all upcoming classes and free salons, please see our Winter/Spring 2010 schedule. For more info or to register, please send us an email. Payment may be sent online via Paypal or by mailing a check (made payable to Logos Graphics).

Intaglio Print

Just a friendly reminder that we’re hosting our first winter salon tomorrow afternoon. It’s a free opportunity to learn about photogravure with a Sturgess etching press.

Intaglio Salon – free!
Saturday, February 20, 2010
2 – 4:30 pm

Come witness the beauty of intaglio! We’ll explore large-scale printmaking using our Sturges etching press, image setter film positives and KM73 plates. We’ll discuss different etching inks and their application while printing onto Rives BFK paper.

If interested, please drop us a line to let us know you’re coming!

Heart Die

Heart Die

Happy V-Day to everyone! Here are a few pix of some heart-shaped dies for a job on the boards… hope they bring a little cheer to wherever you may be.

Limited edition book jackets for Slightly Behind and to the Left

Carved printing blocks used for book jackets

Local writer Claire Light is celebrating the launch of her new book, Slightly Behind and to the Left, with an upcoming launch party! There will be performances by Jaime Cortez, Sadie Contini, Lise Swenson, and others as well.

For this project, Claire collaborated with Patricia Wakida of Wasabi Press, who letterpress printed a limited number of book jackets onto recycled grocery shopping bags for a vintage wartime era look.

According to Patricia, the cover depicts a Japanese-American teenage boy who lives on a strawberry farm during World War II and believes he was abducted by aliens; the “planets” he visits with the aliens are scrambled names of Japanese internment camps.

We’ve been great fans of Patricia’s work (check out her cool tiger postcards). As usual, we love supporting local writers and book artists (especially when they work together), and encourage you to stop by.

SLIGHTLY BEHIND AND TO THE LEFT book launch party!
Date: Tuesday, February 23, 2010
Time: 7:00pm – 10:00pm
Location: Socha Cafe
Street: 3235 Mission Street

Here is our Winter and Spring 2010 Salon and Class schedule. Salons are free and open to the public, and classes require registration and payment of fees via Paypal or check. All events are held at our studio in San Francisco. For more information or to sign up, please send us an email!

Intaglio Plate

Intaglio Salon – free!
Saturday, February 20, 2010
2 – 4:30 pm

Come witness the beauty of intaglio! We will explore large-scale printmaking using our Sturges etching press, image setter film positives and KM73 plates. We’ll discuss different etching inks and their application while printing onto Rives BFK paper.

Pre-Press for Letterpress Class
Wednesday, March 10, 2010
7-9 pm
$35

Press Sheet Layout

Come find out how to reduce your film and plate costs with our prepress and file preparation tips! In this class, find out the most cost-effective way to prepare your files for plate production, saving you both time and money. We’ll cover digital layout schemes, handling Photoshop images, type, and little-known tricks for creating letterpress-friendly designs.

This class is a great opportunity to check out our Heidelberg Windmill letterpress. Participants will be eligible for a 15% discount on their next film or plate order from Logos Graphics.

Introductory Heidelberg Windmill Letterpress Class
Saturday, March 27, 2010
11 am – 3 pm
$75

Heidelberg Windmill

We welcome you to join us for a one-day introductory Windmill class! This is a wonderful opportunity to learn the set up and printing basics for the Heidelberg Windmill letterpress.

We’ll include tips and tricks for make ready, inking secrets, and printing onto a wide variety of papers (including envelopes!). Participants will have multiple opportunities to set up and run this fantastic letterpress. Class size is limited to 6 people.

To register, please send us an email. Payment may be sent online via Paypal or by mailing a check (made payable to Logos Graphics).

Job Planning for Letterpress
Wednesday, April 7, 2010
7-9 pm
$40

Have you ever wondered about using different papers? Or been confused by paper grain direction and its influence on printing? This class will cover a host of basic job planning strategies, from choosing the appropriate stock, laying out efficient press sheets, comparing increased letterpress plate costs versus printing multiple-up forms, etc. A must for both the beginner and advanced printer alike.

PCBA Salon: Screen Printing Tote Bags – free!
Saturday, April 24, 2010
1-4 pm

Come join us for an afternoon of free screen printing in anticipation of this year’s Pacific Center for the Book Arts Printers Fair.

We’ll screen print tote bags for sale at the fair. If you bring your own paper grocery shopping bags, you can screen print a few for yourself to take home too. You’ll have fun at this fast and easy process, and meet other PCBA members in this Saturday afternoon salon.

Intaglio Print

As 2009 draws to a close, we’d like to wish a very happy new year to all of our friends and clients.

Thank you for helping to make this a special year for us, from celebrating the Vandercook’s 100th anniversary to screen printing rockin’ posters and delving further into intaglio (see example, left).

We’ll post our upcoming Winter 2010 schedule of salons and classes early next year.

If you would like to be included in our class email list, please send an email to class [at] logosgraphics [dot] net.

Here are a few pictures for Strange States of Matter, the upcoming holiday show at the Curiosity Shoppe. The show features work by Tom Bonauro, with both large and small screen printed posters produced here at Logos Graphics.

Posters will be on display and available for sale at the show’s opening night on Saturday, December 5, from 6-9 pm. Please mark your calendars and join us for this evening!

Screen Printing Arrows

Screen Printing Arrows

Screen Printing Inks

Screen Printed Front Side of Show Postcard

Letterpress Printing on Back Side of Show Postcard

Here are some photos from the 100th Anniversary Vandercook Model project, which we recently completed. It was printed on Strathmore Writing Wove, Bright White, 110 lb. paper as a 3-color offset (including a slick metallic PMS 877 silver), followed by a letterpress pass to reinforce the scores and outlines. Finally, we die-cut the various model shapes so they pop out for easy construction!

Kudos to everyone who has donated their time, energy and resources into making this little model possible! We’d especially like to thank:

• Shirley Edwards for the model design
• Pacific Center for the Book Arts for publishing the model
• Fritz Klinke of NA Graphics for his permission to use the Vandercook logo
• Book Club of California, who is making the model as a keepsake for their members
• The American Printing History Association and the Gleeson Library of the University of San Francisco for their support throughout the project

100th Anniversary Vandercook Model - Press Sheet

100th Anniversary Vandercook Model

100th Anniversary Vandercook Model

100th Anniversary Vandercook Model

More Vandercook model photos are available here.

Vandercook

This year marks the 100th anniversary of the Vandercook letterpress! Shirley Edwards, a San Francisco-based designer (and Logos Graphics cohort), has started a blog to document a special paper Vandercook model which she designed: http://vandercook100.blogspot.com.

Be sure to watch the blog for more information about its final release! Members of the Pacific Center for the Book Arts will receive a free Vandercook model template sheet with instructions in the next Ampersand publication due this fall. If you’re unfamiliar with the Vandercook, you can stop by the San Francisco Center for the Book and see their range of Vandercook presses and sign up for classes too.