Jack W. Stauffacher
American
1920, California, United States
2017, Tiburon, Bay Area
A self-taught printer, book designer, and craftsman, Jack Stauffacher has fostered a lifelong fascination with the craft of printing. He was only 16 years old when he established the Greenwood Press in 1936 in a small building behind his family's house in San Mateo, California, and he had published a number of volumes by his late twenties.
In 1955 Stauffacher won a Fulbright grant to study for three years in Florence, Italy. There he met Giovanni Mardersteig and Alberto Tallone, who inspired Stauffacher's deep interest in historic printing techniques and their relationship to place. He returned to the United States to teach at the Carnegie Institute of Technology before moving back to California to become typographic director at Stanford University Press.
Since the 1960s Stauffacher has been experimenting with repetitive inking techniques, all the while exploring the ways in which the mind, hand, type, ink, and paper come together. These explorations allow him to leave behind the rigidity and precision of traditional typography and embrace the medium's potential for randomness and spontaneity.
Works in the Collection
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Jack W. StauffacherUntitled -
Jack W. Stauffacherma5 -
Jack W. StauffacherG2 -
Jack W. StauffacherThe Wood Letters of The Greenwood Press
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Jack W. Stauffacher, Dennis LetbetterVico duodecimo Axiom 65
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Jack W. StauffacherThe Wood Letters of The Greenwood Press -
Jack W. StauffacherThe Rebel Albert Camus: Twenty-Five Typographic Meditations [colophon] -
Jack W. StauffacherThe Rebel Albert Camus: Twenty-Five Typographic Meditations [page 36] -
Jack W. StauffacherThe Rebel Albert Camus: Twenty-Five Typographic Meditations [page 37] -
Jack W. StauffacherThe Rebel Albert Camus: Twenty-Five Typographic Meditations [page 38] -
Jack W. StauffacherThe Rebel Albert Camus: Twenty-Five Typographic Meditations [portfolio] -
Jack W. StauffacherThe Rebel Albert Camus: Twenty-Five Typographic Meditations [page 34] -
Jack W. StauffacherThe Rebel Albert Camus: Twenty-Five Typographic Meditations [page 26] -
Jack W. StauffacherThe Rebel Albert Camus: Twenty-Five Typographic Meditations [page 27] -
Jack W. StauffacherThe Rebel Albert Camus: Twenty-Five Typographic Meditations [page 28] -
Jack W. StauffacherThe Rebel Albert Camus: Twenty-Five Typographic Meditations [page 29] -
Jack W. StauffacherThe Rebel Albert Camus: Twenty-Five Typographic Meditations [page 30] -
Jack W. StauffacherThe Rebel Albert Camus: Twenty-Five Typographic Meditations [page 31] -
Jack W. StauffacherThe Rebel Albert Camus: Twenty-Five Typographic Meditations [page 32] -
Jack W. StauffacherThe Rebel Albert Camus: Twenty-Five Typographic Meditations [page 33] -
Jack W. StauffacherThe Rebel Albert Camus: Twenty-Five Typographic Meditations [page 35] -
Jack W. StauffacherThe Rebel Albert Camus: Twenty-Five Typographic Meditations [page 23] -
Jack W. StauffacherThe Rebel Albert Camus: Twenty-Five Typographic Meditations [page 16] -
Jack W. StauffacherThe Rebel Albert Camus: Twenty-Five Typographic Meditations [page 17] -
Jack W. StauffacherThe Rebel Albert Camus: Twenty-Five Typographic Meditations [page 18] -
Jack W. StauffacherThe Rebel Albert Camus: Twenty-Five Typographic Meditations [page 19]
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Jack W. StauffacherThe Rebel Albert Camus: Twenty-Five Typographic Meditations [page 20] -
Jack W. StauffacherThe Rebel Albert Camus: Twenty-Five Typographic Meditations [page 22] -
Jack W. StauffacherThe Rebel Albert Camus: Twenty-Five Typographic Meditations [page 24] -
Jack W. StauffacherThe Rebel Albert Camus: Twenty-Five Typographic Meditations [page 25] -
Jack W. StauffacherThe Rebel Albert Camus: Twenty-Five Typographic Meditations [page 21] -
Jack W. StauffacherThe Rebel Albert Camus: Twenty-Five Typographic Meditations [page 10] -
Jack W. StauffacherThe Rebel Albert Camus: Twenty-Five Typographic Meditations [page 6] -
Jack W. StauffacherThe Rebel Albert Camus: Twenty-Five Typographic Meditations [page 7] -
Jack W. StauffacherThe Rebel Albert Camus: Twenty-Five Typographic Meditations [page 8] -
Jack W. StauffacherThe Rebel Albert Camus: Twenty-Five Typographic Meditations [page 9] -
Jack W. StauffacherThe Rebel Albert Camus: Twenty-Five Typographic Meditations [page 11] -
Jack W. StauffacherThe Rebel Albert Camus: Twenty-Five Typographic Meditations [page 12]
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Jack W. StauffacherThe Rebel Albert Camus: Twenty-Five Typographic Meditations [page 13] -
Jack W. StauffacherThe Rebel Albert Camus: Twenty-Five Typographic Meditations [page 14] -
Jack W. StauffacherThe Rebel Albert Camus: Twenty-Five Typographic Meditations [page 15] -
Jack W. StauffacherThe Rebel Albert Camus: Twenty-Five Typographic Meditations [cover] -
Jack W. StauffacherThe Rebel Albert Camus: Twenty-Five Typographic Meditations [page 5] -
Jack W. StauffacherThe Rebel Albert Camus: Twenty-Five Typographic Meditations [page 4] -
Jack W. StauffacherThe Rebel Albert Camus: Twenty-Five Typographic Meditations [page 3] -
Jack W. StauffacherThe Rebel Albert Camus: Twenty-Five Typographic Meditations [page 2] -
Jack W. StauffacherThe Rebel Albert Camus: Twenty-Five Typographic Meditations [page 1] -
Jack W. StauffacherThe Rebel Albert Camus: Twenty-Five Typographic Meditations [title page] -
Jack W. StauffacherUntitled, from the series Shifting and Inking -
Jack W. StauffacherUntitled, from the series Shifting and Inking -
Jack W. StauffacherUntitled, from the series Shifting and Inking -
Jack W. StauffacherUntitled, from the series Shifting and Inking -
Jack W. StauffacherUntitled, from the series Shifting and Inking -
Jack W. StauffacherUntitled, from the series Shifting and Inking -
Jack W. StauffacherVico Wooden Letters -
Jack W. StauffacherBrow of a Hill, from the portfolio Vico Wooden Letters
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Jack W. StauffacherVein of Rocks, from the portfolio Vico Wooden Letters -
Jack W. StauffacherEyes of Needles, from the portfolio Vico Wooden Letters -
Jack W. StauffacherWaves Murmur, from the portfolio Vico Wooden Letters -
Jack W. StauffacherPlants Making Love, from the portfolio Vico Wooden Letters -
Jack W. StauffacherVines Going Mad, from the portfolio Vico Wooden Letters -
Jack W. StauffacherTrees Weeping, from the portfolio Vico Wooden Letters -
Jack W. StauffacherColophon, from the portfolio Vico Wooden Letters -
Jack W. StauffacherBeard of Wheat, from the portfolio Vico Wooden Letters -
Jack W. StauffacherWind Whistles, from the portfolio Vico Wooden Letters Vico Wooden Letters -
Jack W. StauffacherHead for Top, from the portfolio Vico Wooden Letters Vico Wooden Letters -
Jack W. StauffacherRendering of the Corollaries Concerning Tropes, Monsters and Poetic Transformations, from the portfolio Vico Wooden Letters -
Jack W. StauffacherTitle Page, from the portfolio Vico Wooden Letters -
Jack W. StauffacherVico Wooden Letters -
Jack W. StauffacherUntitled, from the series Red 2 -
Jack W. StauffacherOn & Off Inking -
Jack W. StauffacherOn & Off Inking -
Jack W. StauffacherOn & Off Inking -
Jack W. StauffacherUntitled, from the series Red 2 -
Jack W. StauffacherOn & Off Inking -
Jack W. StauffacherUntitled, from the series Red 2 -
Jack W. StauffacherOn & Off Inking -
Jack W. StauffacherOn & Off Inking -
Jack W. StauffacherOn & Off Inking -
Jack W. StauffacherOn & Off Inking -
Jack W. StauffacherOn & Off Inking -
Jack W. StauffacherOn & Off Inking -
Jack W. StauffacherWooden Letters from 300 Broadway -
Jack W. StauffacherWooden Letters from 300 Broadway -
Jack W. StauffacherWooden Letters from 300 Broadway -
Jack W. StauffacherWooden Letters from 300 Broadway -
Jack W. StauffacherWooden Letters from 300 Broadway -
Jack W. StauffacherWooden Letters from 300 Broadway -
Jack W. StauffacherWooden Letters from 300 Broadway -
Jack W. StauffacherWooden Letters from 300 Broadway -
Jack W. StauffacherWooden Letters from 300 Broadway -
Jack W. StauffacherWooden Letters from 300 Broadway -
Jack W. StauffacherWooden Letters from 300 Broadway -
Jack W. StauffacherWooden Letters from 300 Broadway -
Jack W. StauffacherWooden Letters from 300 Broadway
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