Classes: Saturday, August 26

To view all the classes and disclaimers for the 2023 San Francisco Pen Show, please proceed to the: Classes (tuition based) page.

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Visual note-taking (aka: sketchnoting) is a fabulously fun technique used to transform simple notes into rich visual summaries. It’s a great way to capture ideas, to remember them, and to share them with others. Whether used as a personal tool to develop your creativity, or as a way to share information with others, sketchnotes are a powerful way to create memorable, engaging info summaries while you also develop and express your own unique visual style.

In this hands-on workshop at the SF Pen Show, you’ll create a visual vocabulary of both objects (things) and concepts (ideas), practice simple lettering techniques, and learn to structure information into common layout patterns. Then you’ll bring it all together as you practice creating sketchnotes in real time. You’ll further hone your skills with collaborative feedback and critique.

If you’re new to sketchnoting, this is a fun and fast way to get started. If you’re a seasoned sketcher or visual note-taker, you’ll advance your practice in a whole new way!

About the Facilitator:

Kate is a sketchnoter, graphic facilitator, nature journaler, and a lover of all things sketchy. As principal at Intelleto, she creates visual explanations that make complex ideas simple, memorable and shareable. Kate has been a visual practitioner for over 25 years, using a broad range of sketching techniques to support communication in organizations big and small. She’s sketchnoted 100s of events, led workshops for clients including the Stanford d.school, Uber, Walmart Labs, Google, Singularity University and General Assembly, and teaches interaction design at the California College of the Arts. Kate believes that sketching is the engine of curiosity, that sharpie pens smell like ideas, and that the touch of pen to paper opens a world of personal expression, wonder, and magic. Kate tweets and instas at @katerutter, blogs at www.intelleto.com and co-hosts the NSFW podcast What Is Wrong With UX.

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Do you want to learn how to diagnose and smoothen problem nibs? Learn from Nibworker Mr. Sunny Koh with hands-on instruction on pen maintenance, nib diagnostics and simple repairs and smoothing.

• Learn how a Pen and Nib works
• How to use a Loupe for diagnosing problems
• Understand the perfect nib geometry
• Testing the pen ink flow using the Japanese techniques
• Tine alignment and flow adjustment
• Nib smoothing using the Binderize Method

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Eileen P. Goldenberg, award winning artist and avid Urban Sketcher, will teach you the basics of how to set up an Urban Sketch: big shapes, shadows and color. Urban Sketching is a relaxing and interesting way to learn to see the world around you.  We will sketch outside( weather permitting.) Fountain Pens are excellent for Urban Sketching!

FREE Sketch kit with class! Please bring a fountain pen with permanent ink, such as Platinum Carbon Black.

Questions? [email protected]

Learn how to record your trips and adventures with this travel journaling workshop, hosted by artist and author Abbey Sy.

During the workshop, you’ll get to know about travel journaling and gain creative insights as you peer into Abbey’s own awe-inspiring travel journals for inspiration. Discover the many ways you can document about trips past, and find the best ideas for journal layouts and creating one of a kind pages that you’ll remember by as a keepsake from your travels.

Please bring your own journal, pen, scissors, ephemera (from travels, or any travel-related materials you will need) and stationery for writing or documenting. The class will run for 90 minutes and will be led by Abbey’s expertise in travel journaling. Students will work on a specific prompt together as part of the class.

Along with the class, participants will receive a journaling kit which includes:

• Limited edition journal & collage zine (to be released in August 2023)
• Travel journaling cheat sheet for ideas and inspiration
• A signed copy of San Francisco, Documented (zine) featuring Abbey’s travel journal pages
• Abbey Sy postcard and sticker
• Everyday Explorers Co. alphabet sticker sheet
• Digital copy of The ABCs of Journaling (link will be sent once slot has been confirmed, before the workshop date)

PS: If you have copies of Abbey’s books, you may bring them and have them signed at the workshop.

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** Please note that Sunny’s Basic Nib Care & Tuning class is a pre-requisite for this Nib Grinding Workshop. Two sessions are scheduled prior to this class – one on Friday afternoon and the other on Saturday morning. **

Do you want to learn how to make Stubs, Italics and Obliques? Nibworker Mr. Sunny Koh will give hands-on instruction on how to make these custom nib grinds using sandpaper and a Jeweler’s Block, the low-tech way.

Trained by Richard Binder in nibworking and by Nathan Tardiff in nib retipping, Sunny is a practising nibworker from Straits Pen in Singapore.

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Do you have stationery or art supply items that are waiting for their own special purpose?
Do you have a purpose in mind but have yet to find the right supplies for expression?
Do you flip between digital and analog throughout the day?

Join artist and web developer Julia van der Wyk as we match up methodologies and systems with our beloved stationery and art supplies. Our daily routines can be structured or fluid, and either way have great opportunities for enjoyment of stationery, pens and ink. We’ll talk about what we do, what we’d like to do, and finding a routine that sticks.

Bring your favored stationery or art supplies, questions, and conundrums!

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Taizo Yamamoto, owner of Yamamoto Paper, and Bruce Eimon, owner of Think on Paper, will walk you through 10 different kinds of Japanese fountain pen friendly paper and explain the backstory of each. You will get to write on all papers to hone in on your likes and dislikes.

Mr. Yamamoto will share his own challenges in making high-end notebooks as the Japanese paper industry goes through cost cutting and consolidations.

• Every participant will receive a Yamamoto Paper MEMO BOX filled with five different kinds of paper.
• Please bring your own writing instruments to test the paper with.
• Class participation fee is $30.

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In this 2-hour workshop, we’ll make a blank notebook using fountain pen-friendly paper.

This binding was invented by Carmencho Arregui, a Spanish bookbinder and conservator. It’s based on the traditional long-stitch binding. The Crossed Structure binding employs traditional bookbinding methods but allows for personalization and self-expression through the use of colorful materials and finishing touches

Beginners welcome.

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Enjoy Rubber Stamps with TRAVELER’S notebook with eric small things

Instructor: eric small things

Tuition: $80

3:00-4:30pm

Register for the class here: Enjoy Rubber Stamps – Saturday

Note: This class is sold out.

Journal and document your everyday experience using TRAVELER’S notebook. A fun way to decorate the empty pages is through rubber stamp impressions. eric is a famous eraser stamp artist in Japan and has created popular stamp designs using erasable rubber for brands like Sakuralala, Pilot, Kamihaku, and more. This interactive demo gives you an opportunity to see her hand-carving process and a chance to use her original hand-carved eraser rubber stamps.

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