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Only on Saturday: The Wood Type Prints of Jack Stauffacher (Deluxe Edition)

An exquisite deluxe edition covered in Stauffacher’s favorite raw silk and featuring a portfolio with ten facsimile prints and ten letterpress proofs created with his actual wood type Created in his off-hours on the weekend and in part inspired by the modern artists of his day, Jack Stauffacher’s extraordinary prints demonstrate what wood type can do when released from its role in traditional communication and instead used to explore letters as pure form. In the resulting abstract, dynamically composed, often lushly layered prints, Stauffacher reclaims typography as a subject fit for the gallery wall. Featuring 500 images (most of which have never appeared in a publication before) and essays by collaborators from the worlds of art and typography, Only on Saturday is the first trade book to document the work of one of the past century’s great typographers and printers―and offer the compelling backstory behind its creation.

Only on Saturday: The Wood Type Prints of Jack Stauffacher

The first comprehensive look at Stauffacher’s striking typographic experiments, in which he used a box of worn, mismatched wood type to transform letters from legibility workhorses into expressive studies of surface, color, and form Created in his off-hours on the weekend and in part inspired by the modern artists of his day, Jack Stauffacher’s exquisite prints demonstrate what wood type can do when released from its role in traditional communication and instead used to explore letters as pure form. In the resulting abstract, dynamically composed, often lushly layered prints, Stauffacher reclaims typography as a subject fit for the gallery wall.

Collins House Collection

Our complete catalog of books in print, offered with free domestic shipping through for Cannes Lion A graphic design library of 13 titles, including W. A. Dwiggins: A Life in Design Bauhaus Typography at 100 Strikethrough: Typographic Messages of Protest Only on Saturday: The Wood Type Prints of Jack Stauffacher (Trade Edition) Die Fläche: Design and Lettering of the Vienna Secession, 1902–1911 The Complete Commercial Artist: Making Modern Design in Japan, 1928–1930 Growing Up in Alphabet City: The Unexpected Letterform Art of Michael Doret Amos Paul Kennedy, Jr.: Citizen Printer NKF: Piet Zwart’s Avant-Garde Catalog for Standard Cables, 1927–1928 Type by Bernhard, Excoffon, Novarese: Collected Specimen Booklets (3-volume series) Emigre Fonts: Type Specimens, 1986–2024

This Just In: Jack Stauffacher’s Studio

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.