About This Lesson
In 1966, San Francisco printer Jack Stauffacher reopened The Greenwood Press, the imprint he had founded as a teenager, and moved his workshop to what was known as "The Printer's Building". Shortly after moving, he received a gift of 66 pieces of late 19th-century wooden type from The Williams Printing Company, a recently shuttered commercial poster business that had operated downstairs. Since then, Stauffacher has employed the wooden letters in a series of what he calls "typographic meditations," arranging the familiar forms into unexpected configurations to create bold, abstract images.
