Kirsten Murray

Review of San Francisco Center for the B...

I did an evening letterpress workshop at SFCB and ...

I did an evening letterpress workshop at SFCB and loved it. The class was taken by talented designer and letterpress printing extraordinaire, Adam Ewing. He made the printing process look easy but, as we soon found out, it's a highly skilled process and labour of love.

The studio is a like a sweet shop for typography lovers, with drawer after drawer of old wood and metal type. The workshop gave me the opportunity to pull a print using both a Vandercook cylinder press and a tabletop platen press. The white ink on black paper worked beautifully. I'm still trying to decide where to hang the finished print.

With many other workshops specialising in different printing techniques, book binding, and hand lettering, I'd sign up for a different class every week (if only I lived in SF!).