Gerald Lange
The Bieler Press
4216-1/4 Glencoe Avenue
Marina del Rey, CA 90292
Typographic and production services
The Bieler Press specializes in exploratory project-based services and techniques for print production. We provide fine typographic composition, high quality letterpress printing, and precise restoration and reproduction of printed images and letterforms.
Letterpress digital services and materials
Photopolymer platemaking: The Bieler Press has provided photopolymer platemaking to the contemporary studio letterpress community since 1995. Offered are professionally processed premium-grade plates for today’s popular bases (Bunting, Patmag, Boxcar, Eluminum) with fast same day turn-around. For further details go to Photopolymer Platemaking Service.
Bunting magnetic bases: The Bieler Press is a manufacturing representative and distributor of the industry standard Bunting Magnetic Cerface™ Flat Base for Bunting Magnetics Co. The crème de la crème.
Monograph on photopolymer platemaking and letterpress printing with digital type: The Bieler Press is the publisher of Printing digital type on the hand-operated flatbed cylinder press, the definitive manual on letterpress printing with the photopolymer plate process. First published in 1998, the fifth edition is forthcoming.
Letterpress Instruction—2013
Contemporary Studio Letterpress
Art Center College of Design, Archetype Press,
South Campus. Sponsored by Art Center at Night.
950 South Raymond Avenue, Pasadena
14 weeks. Tuesday night, 7–10.
Spring: January 15–April 16.
Summer: May 14–August 13.
Fall: September 10–November 26.
Digital Letterpress
Otis College of Art and Design, Otis Lab Press,
Goldsmith Campus. Sponsored by Otis Continuing Education.
9045 Lincoln Blvd, Los Angeles (Westchester)
10 weeks. Saturday afternoon, 1:30–4:30.
Spring: February 2–April 13.
Summer: June 1–August 3.
Fall: September 7–November 9.
Introduction to Letterpress
Otis College of Art and Design, Otis Lab Press,
Goldsmith Campus. Sponsored by Otis Continuing Education.
9045 Lincoln Blvd, Los Angeles (Westchester)
10 weeks. Thursday night, 7–10.
Spring: February 7–April 18.
Summer: June 6–August 15.
Fall: September 12–November 14.
Project-Based Studio Letterpress
Otis College of Art and Design, Otis Lab Press,
Goldsmith Campus. Sponsored by Otis Continuing Education.
9045 Lincoln Blvd, Los Angeles (Westchester)
10 weeks. Sunday afternoon, 1:30–4:30.
Fall: September 8–November 10.
An online group site Subiaco serves as a referential component to these instructional venues. Currently enrolled students should sign up for membership as the site contains syllabi, handouts, recommended textbook listings, posted announcements, and other resources, including equipment and materials for sale. All prior students, teaching assistants, apprentices, interns, associates, and the like, are welcome to join as well.
Bieler Press Publications & Production
Descriptions of selected titles can be found on the separately linked pages at Fine Press Limited Editions. Forthcoming work includes:
Learning From Moxon, A through Z, &c.. The Bieler Press.
Printing digital type on the hand-operated flatbed cylinder press. Gerald Lange. Fifth edition. Ebook formatted. Bieler Press Monographs.
Biographical sketch
Gerald Lange is the proprietor and founder (1975) of The Bieler Press, a small printing and publishing firm specializing in studio letterpress, typographic design, and the publication of finely-printed limited edition books and related matter.
In 2005, Lange was chosen to present the Eighth Annual Stephen A. Kanter Lecture on California Fine Printing at the William Andrews Clark Memorial Library, University of California, Los Angeles. In 1991, he was selected as the first recipient of the prestigious Carl Hertzog Award for Excellence in Book Design. His publications have also won awards from the Type Directors Club, the American Institute of Graphic Arts, and the Chicago Book Clinic.
In 1985, the University of Minnesota established The Bieler Press Archival Materials Collection to provide and maintain historical documentation of the Press. In support of his early endeavors, Lange was awarded five assistance grants from the National Endowment for the Arts as well as grants from the Elmer L. and Eleanor J. Andersen Foundation. He is currently participating in an oral history interview at UCLA Library′s Center for Oral History Research.
Lange has written extensively on typography and the book arts, contributing articles for publications such as Parenthesis (FPBA), book art object (CODEX), Ampersand (PCBA), Printing History (APHA), Guild of Book Workers Newsletter, Counter, Serif, Bookways, and The Typographer. In 2007, he was selected to present a paper on contemporary typography for the 32nd Annual Conference of the American Printing History Association. Lange's monograph Printing digital type on the hand-operated flatbed cylinder press, first published in 1998, its fifth edition is forthcoming.
Lange provides instruction at Art Center College of Design (since 2000) and Otis College of Art and Design (since 1997). From 1986 to 1993, he was Master Printer at the USC Fine Arts Press. While at the University of Southern California, he was also editor of the scholarly journal Coranto. Lange has also taught workshops/coursework for Irvine Fine Arts Center (Master Printer Workshop), California Institute of the Arts, Minnesota Center for Book Arts (Master classes), Scripps College (Frederic W. Goudy Workshops), Kent State University (Blossom Visual Communication Design Workshop), University of Minnesota, School of the Art Institute of Chicago.
From 1990 to 1996, Lange was editor of AbraCadaBrA, the Journal of the Alliance for Contemporary Book Arts, an organization he co-founded in 1987. He was Chairman of the Fine Press Book Association (NA) from 1999 to 2001. In 2001, he founded PPLetterpress, an online forum on investigative, exploratory, and alternative printing and typographic techniques.
Exhibitions of Bieler Press work include Men Over 25: California Edition. Printing Letterpress for Over a Quarter of a Century. Scripps College, 2012; California Printers in the Fine Press Tradition, 1975–2006, Stanford University, 2007; Master Printers, Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery/Barnsdall Park, 2006; Books & Books, Otis College of Art + Design, 2005; Matter & Spirit: The Genesis and Evolution of the Book, Wells College Book Arts Center, 2004; Ninety from the Nineties: A Decade of Printing, New York Public Library, 2003.
Institutional collections of Bieler Press work include The British Library, University of California, Columbia University, Harvard University, University of Minnesota, New York Public Library, Princeton University, Stanford University, Victoria and Albert Museum, Yale University.
The Aldine Press
The Aldine Press: Catalogue of the Ahmanson-Murphy Collection of books by or relating to the Press in the Library of the University of California, Los Angeles; incorporating works recorded elsewhere.
This massive tome is the culmination of a four-year project; containing some 1,370 quasi-facsimile bibliographic descriptions of the printed work (1495–1589) of Aldus Manutius, his heirs, and related material. It includes a lengthy introductory essay (by editor Nicolas Barker), illustrative matter (378 typefaces, printer’s devices, and reconstructed watermarks), and referential information (tables, concordance, and indexes).
The typographic design and composition for The Aldine Press were provided by Gerald Lange of The Bieler Press. The book was digitally composed in Manutius – a singularly unique typeface containing an unprecedented set of roman and Greek letterforms common to printing and orthographic practices of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries – specially designed for the project by Matthew Carter.
The typographic considerations involved in the production of this book were detailed in an article by Gerald Lange in Printing History: the Journal of the American Printing History Association, 2001.
Published by the University of California Press in 2001. Printed on Mohawk Superfine, an acid-free paper, in an edition consisting of 425 copies. The book measures 9 by 12 inches (with cloth covered slipcase). 673 pages. ISBN 0-520-22993-2. LC 00-064851.
Out-of-print from publisher; retailed at $495. We have a limited number of these available in unopened shipping box. Inquire.
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