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to Jack Werner Stauffacher,

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A Specimen Book of Type Faces from Stanza 153 Press

I've always loved books, all n1y life. When I

was a clerk at Scribner's bookstore, I dreamed

of having a book of n1y own, of writing one

that I could put on the shelf. [ ... J And please,

publishers: there is nothing more beautiful

than the book. The paper, the font, the cloth.

Please, no matter how we advance

technologically, please never abandon the

book. There is nothing, in our material world,

n1ore beautiful than the book.

Patti Smith, singer-songwriter

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I want to make beautiful things) even if nobody cares.

saul bass) graphic designer

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Parse good from the nonsense

Never let the form dictate what's the content

It's never art for art's sake

Despite whatever the corpse of a Marxist thinks

P ollowing the rules is just too hard for me, it's hardly me

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Because right now all you have is time time tirr: e and someday that time will run out. That's the only thing you can be absolutely certain about.

Paul Baribeau, singer songwriter

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a very simple secret: it is only with the lteart that one can sec

rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye

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Though free to think and act, we are held together, like stars in the firmament, with ties inseparable. These ties

cannot be seen, but we can feel them. I cut myself in the finger, and it pains me: this finger is a part of me. I see a

friend hurt, and it hurts me, too: my friend and I are one.

Nikola Tesla, inventor

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Feet, what do I need them for If I have wings to fly.

Frida Kahlo, artist

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The way to tell fewest lies is to tell fewest lies, not to give oneself the fewest oppor­tunities of telling lies.

Franz Kafka, German writer

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F AS HI ON is not something that exists only in dresses. FASHION is in the sky, in the street. F ASH I 0 N has to do with ideas, the way we live, what is happening.

Coco Chanel, FASHION DESIGNER

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Micha Commeren, Designer

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The finely shaped, tendril-looking brake cords

give the bicycle a butterfly look. The ratchet gear resounds cricket-like upon the rolling hills in the Tuscan summer.

Jack Werner Stauffacher Printer & Typographer

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To live is the rarest thing in the world.

Most people exist,

that is all.

Oscar Wilde, writer

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The world is your playground.

Nicole W. , writer

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if there ever comes a day when we can't be together,

keep me in your heart, i'H stay there forever.

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MISCELLANEA

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Garrett Frisbey D Carlos Garcia II

Travis Mackin

Nella Athena Ocampo Natalie Raye Phoenix Redox; ado

Sinclair Riley

jessica lavarias rosario

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Kimberly Wong $ Lawrence Tinwai Wong

Loxang Yang

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This book was handset & printed on a Challenge Proof Press by the students of DAI 226 Modern Letterpress Printing, San Francisco State University, Spring 2016. Pino Trogu, from the Design Department, was the instructor.

Each student composed & printed a page with a favorite quote & one with a personal design, using a variety of large-size wooden letters & other printing elements. The students also composed & printed the additional pages.

"A Specimen Book of Type Faces from Stanza 153 Press" is our first publication. Sixty numbered copies were assembled & wire-o bound in Room 153, Fine Arts Building, in May 2016.

Special thanks to Nathan Atkinson, Tom Bier, Kurt Daw, Meredith Eliassen, Les Ferriss, Walter & Norman Hicks, Lizzy Hirsch, Eric Holub, Michael Karner, Friday lunch group, Fritz Klinke, Peter Koch, Diana Kohnke, LCA & DAI at SFSU, Nancy Noble, The Greenwood Press, & Mattie Taormina.

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2 Corey Blevins 3 Garrett Frisbey 4 Carlos Garcia 5 F rancheska Machado 6 Travis Mackin

7 Nella Ocampo 8 Natalie Reclosado 9 Sinclair Riley

10 Jessica Rosario 11 Shea Sjoberg

12 Pino Trogu 13 Audrey Walker 14 Kimberly Wong 15 Lawrence Wong 16 Loxang Yang

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Page 8, for Eighteen point Roman read Sixteen point Centaur

Page 9, for German read German;language

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