Main entry:

Stauffacher, Jack W. (Jack Werner), 1920-2017, artist, designer, interviewee.

Title & Author:

Only on Saturday : the wood type prints of Jack Stauffacher / editor, Chuck Byrne ; contributors, Kristina Bell, John D. Berry, Chuck Bigelow, Matthew Carter, Stephen Coles, Jim Faris, Jennifer Dunlop Fletcher, Nathan Garland, Dennis Letbetter, Staci Steinberger, Michael Taylor, Pino Trogu.

Publication:

San Francisco, CA : Letterform Archive, [2023]
New York, NY : Artbook D.A.P.
China : Artron Art Printing Limited
©2023

Description:

239 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), portraits ; 37 cm

Notes:
Deluxe edition includes a portfolio of 10 facsimile reproductions of select wood type prints by Jack Stauffacher and 10 letterpress prints of select wood type from the collection of Jack Stauffacher.
Deluxe edition limited to 200 copies.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction / Chuck Byrne -- Knowing Jack Stauffacher: Jack the printer / John D. Berry -- The studio at 300 Broadway / Pino Trogu -- Making Phaedrus / Jim Faris -- The reluctant mentor / Dennis Letbetter -- Noon to one-thirty / Kristina Bell -- About the prints: Only on Saturday / Chuck Byrne -- Conversation / Jack Stauffacher & Chuck Byrne -- Jack Stauffacher at SFMOMA / Jennifer Dunlop Fletcher -- Movements, moments, meditations / Staci Steinberger -- Collecting Jack / Stephen Coles -- Monoprints: Finding process / Chuck Byrne -- Carnegie experiments : shifting & inking -- Journal of typographic research -- Red square -- On & off inking : a5 Series, Red 2 Series -- Four M Series -- G rotation studies -- Broken C series -- Transparency : ma5 Series, CE Series, YY Series, P Series, NQ Series, Broken M Series -- Make-Ready Series -- Portfolios: Jack Stauffacher and Albert Camus / Chuck Bigelow ; The rebel Albert Camus : Portfolio 1 -- Book to portfolio / Chuck Byrne ; The wood letters of the Greenwood Press : Portfolio 2 -- Prints of wooden letters / Matthew Carter ; Wooden letters from 300 Broadway : Portfolio 3 -- Poetic truth / Dennis Letbetter ; The Vico collaboration : Portfolio 4 -- Poetic speech and visions / Nathan Garland ; Vico duodecimo axiom 65 : Portfolio 5 -- Editions: At hand / Michael Taylor -- At hand -- Golden Gate Bridge -- Tsunami -- Phaedrus -- Notes -- Index -- About the contributors -- About the editor & acknowledgments -- Credits -- Subscribers -- Colophon

Summary:

Only on Saturday features Jack Stauffacher's experimental typographic prints, which reveal his studies in composition and craft. After inheriting a box of old and mismatched wood type in 1966, Stauffacher began playing with the weathered letterforms "only on Saturday" as a break from his work week. These arrangements--some patterned with letters in different sizes and typefaces, some layered with multiple presses of a single letter, others awash in solvent--morphed from exploratory sessions in his off hours to formal studies of what was possible between the positive and negative spaces on a page. Only on Saturday examines five limited-edition portfolios of these prints, as well as Stauffacher's unbound individual and series prints. A selection of images from each project is paired with an essay detailing the process behind the work and tracing his influences--from his filmmaker brother Frank to modernist designer Laszlo Moholy-Nagy. In addition, many of Stauffacher's long-time collectors and collaborators contribute first-person stories about his process and legacy. (Source of description unknown.)

ISBN:

9780998318066 (trade edition)
099831806X
9780998318042 (regular edition)
0998318043
9780998318059 (deluxe edition)
0998318051

Subject:

Stauffacher, Jack W. (Jack Werner), 1920-2017.
Stauffacher, Jack W. (Jack Werner), 1920-2017 Catalogs.
Printers United States.
Letterpress printing California San Francisco 20th century.
Wood types (Printing) California San Francisco 20th century.
Graphic design (Typography) California San Francisco 20th century.
Graphic arts California San Francisco 20th century.
Imprimeurs États-Unis.
Impression en relief Californie San Francisco 20e siècle.
Caractères de bois Californie San Francisco 20e siècle.
Arts graphiques Californie San Francisco 20e siècle.
Graphic design (Typography)
Letterpress printing
Printers
Wood types (Printing)
California San Francisco
United States

Form/genre:

catalogs (documents)
Catalogs.
Art criticism.
Wood types (Type evidence)
Letterpress types (Type evidence)
Catalogues.
Critiques d'art.

Added entries:

Byrne, Chuck, 1943- editor, interviewer.
Bell, Kristina, contributor.
Berry, John D., 1950- contributor.
Bigelow, Chuck, contributor.
Carter, Matthew, contributor.
Coles, Stephen, contributor.
Faris, James, 1952- contributor.
Dunlop Fletcher, Jennifer, contributor.
Garland, Nathan, contributor.
Letbetter, Dennis, contributor.
Steinberger, Staci, contributor.
Taylor, Michael, 1944 June 20- contributor.
Trogu, Pino, contributor.
Letterform Archive, publisher.

Holdings:

Location: Library main m 318585
Call No.: 318585
Copy: 1
Status: Available