Matching Jack Stauffacher’s wood type and one-of-a-kind prints.

Our upcoming exhibition features more than 100 prints, sketches, iterative proofs, and other explorations of Stauffacher’s creative process. Typographic Jazz opens January 27, 2024 at Letterform Archive.

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Many thanks to the Hamilton Wood Type & Printing Museum for having us at their 15th annual Wayzgoose to share the wood type prints of Jack Stauffacher and other highlights from our collection.

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A quick look at Typographic Jazz: The Monoprints of Jack Stauffacher, a pop-up exhibition at the Hamilton Wood Type & Printing Museum for their 15th annual Wayzgoose.

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Jan Tchichold, Contemporary Typography, New Laboratory Press, 1961

And the same booklet with Jack Stauffacher’s custom dust jacket from his personal library. (Stauffacher established the New Laboratory Press at the Carnegie Institute of Technology.)

More of Jack’s jackets: https://letterformarchive.org/news/jack-stauffacher-studio/#jackets

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This Just In: Jack Stauffacher’s Studio - Letterform Archive

For over 50 years, Stauffacher lived a singular life at the heart of San Francisco’s creative community. Now, his legacy lives on at the Archive, and his prints are the subject of our third book.

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