Regardless of its unabashed tech culture, San Francisco remains a hub for analog artforms, hosting that uses a 7-ton steamroller to print linocuts and housing one of the last remaining publishers of its kind. is dedicated to the age-old practice of bookmaking, and with a small team of type casters, proofreaders, printers, and binders, painstakingly produces artist publications entirely by hand.
An episode of , a film series produced by The Balvenie distillery, visits the publisher with the late Anthony Bourdain as host. For three seasons, the beloved chef, writer, and travel icon toured the U.S. visiting tailors, metal casters, saxophone designers, and myriad crafters devoted to traditional techniques. On his stop at Arion Press, Bourdain explores all steps of the bookmaking process, from using 19th Century technology to print each letter with metal type, proofing the text by reading out loud, and stitching each page by hand.
Dive into the publisher’s process in above, check out some of its latest projects on , and browse publications, notebooks, cards, and other goods in . You also might enjoy chronicling the last day of hot metal typesetting at The New York Times.
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