Letterpress Printer and Book artist Craig Jobson with Jamie Thome

On 18 June 2020, we visited with Evanston-based letterpress printer and book artist Craig Jobson!

Mr. Jobson holds two degrees from the University of Texas at Austin (BA, English, BFA, design and print making) and an MFA from Columbia College Chicago, where he taught for 17 years.

He began his graphic design career as an Art Director for the National Office of the American Heart Association, then as Art Director for Tracy Locke/BBDO Advertising. His publishing career began as a Senior Art Director for Holt Rinehart and Winston, and finally as Design Director for McDougal Littell Houghton Mifflin.

During his MFA studies he was influenced by the Private Press movement in Britain and the United States, which resulted in the purchase of a Vandercook letterpress and the founding of Lark Sparrow Press – a private press dedicated to printing works of contemporary short fiction, poetry, broadsides, and faux stamps.

If you would like to know more about Craig’s work, please visit his website at www.larksparrowpress.com

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