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Wilsted and Taylor Publishing Services

Fine book work since 1982.

04/04/2023

Art for the People: WPA-Era Paintings from the Dijkstra Collection

Produced by W&T for the Crocker Art Museum‘s exhibition “Art for the People,” this catalog features art from the Sandra and Bram Dijkstra Collection. Showing workers and disenfranchised people from 1929 through World War II, the paintings emphasize the humanity of struggling Americans in a time of hardship. The remarkable design and printing, which bring out the vitality of the artwork, help create a vivid and immersive book. If you would like to experience these works in person, the exhibition is traveling between January 2023 and March 18, 2024, from the Crocker Art Museum to the Oceanside Museum of Art and finally to the Huntington Library.

10/10/2022

𝘉𝘰𝘳𝘥𝘦𝘳 𝘊𝘰𝘶𝘯𝘵𝘳𝘺: 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘕𝘰𝘳𝘵𝘩𝘸𝘰𝘰𝘥𝘴 𝘊𝘢𝘯𝘰𝘦 𝘑𝘰𝘶𝘳𝘯𝘢𝘭𝘴 𝘰𝘧 𝘏𝘰𝘸𝘢𝘳𝘥 𝘎𝘳𝘦𝘦𝘯𝘦, 1906-1916

A blending of historically minded handmade journals and maps and an astonishing collection of large-format sepia- and golden-toned photographs take you back in time to a sacred, beautiful, and wild place-sadly, already vanishing. This University of Minnesota Press book, designed by W&T, is printed on extra-heavy paper; the texture and color of the binding and the gold stamping on the cover reflect those of the original journals.

Says Peter Geye, award-winning novelist, in the foreword to the book, ". . . the experience of this book is magical."

09/02/2022

Scent and Symbolism: Perfumed Objects and Images
Produced by W&T for the renowned Dixon Gallery and Gardens, Scent and Symbolism
captures their glorious exhibition of 140 scent bottles from the Umi-Mori Art Museum in
Hiroshima, Japan. Turning each of the beautifully designed pages, you can almost smell
the fragrances. Choice of paper and cloth and the outstanding printing create a
remarkably luxurious book. Wilsted & Taylor Publishing Services is nothing to sniff at:
in addition to copy editing the manuscript, we translated the curator's French text!

08/02/2022

Winner of a PPN award for design and manufacturing, 𝘒𝘢𝘺 𝘚𝘦𝘬𝘪𝘮𝘢𝘤𝘩𝘪: 𝘔𝘢𝘴𝘵𝘦𝘳 𝘞𝘦𝘢𝘷𝘦𝘳, W&T’s catalogue for the Fresno Art Museum’s exhibition, evokes some aspects of the artist’s profoundly serene artworks. The folding piece W&T produced for the Berkeley Art Museum’s Sekimachi exhibition suggests the complexity of some of Sekimachi’s paper pieces.

08/02/2022

The works in the Akiko Yamazaki and Jerry Yang collection are subtle ink on paper and difficult to reproduce. How to hold such subtle shades of gray? To reproduce gray ink on gold leaf or shiny black ink on dull black ink? W&T spent many hours comparing color proofs to the original artworks. Winner of a PPN award for design and manufacturing. Published by the Iris & B. Gerald Cantor Center for Visual Arts. W&T copyedited, designed, and produced the book, including press checking the printing at Friesens.

07/26/2022

The Vietnamese Girl with Three Tigers and the American General tells an epic story made even more remarkable by the fact that it is true. This privately published memoir depicts the eventful life of a beautiful Vietnamese woman who overcame the tragedies of war, made a daring escape to the United States, and married the American three-star general who had commanded the U.S. 1st Air Cavalry in Vietnam. W&T designed and produced the paperback and e-book, using the author’s own paintings throughout.

07/25/2022

In 2019, the University of Minnesota Press asked Wilsted & Taylor to create a design for their newly acquired architecture journal--PERS: Preservation, Education & Research. The design uses traditional typographic elements, like decorative rules by W. A. Dwiggins, to create an overall look that is contemporary, architectural, and inviting. Since then, W&T has copy edited and typeset each issue. In 2021, the PERS design won a PPN award. The judges said: “Very elegant typographic treatment and good integration of materials. The pacing feels even.” “Elegant design: a great choice for this journal.”

07/22/2022

Two clocks from Japan, ca. 1948.

07/22/2022

A visual expression of complex topological meditations by renowned anthropologist Paul Rabinow and Anthony Stavrianakis. No jacket hides the deep blue cloth that provides a midnight sky background for the silver and copper stamping. The interior is typographically extravagant as well as austerely elegant. We were honored to produce Paul’s final three books.

07/22/2022

In the library.

07/21/2022

Wilsted & Taylor has been producing promotional material for Kermit Lynch Wine Merchant for more than thirty years. August Rouge and Adventures brochures were in the warehouse on Monday.

07/21/2022

Framed lettering trials, sketches, and prints by Ernest Born.

07/20/2022

The old books in the W&T reference and inspiration library.

07/19/2022

Completed while Jacques Villeglé was still alive, Barnaby Conrad’s Jacques Villeglé and the Streets of Paris presents a biography of the father of street art, woven through a rich history of the Paris art world of the ’50s and ’60s. Lively black-and-white historical photographs are balanced by lavish large-scale reproductions of Villeglé’s brilliantly colored, torn, layered décollages. 10.5 x 11.5 inches, 276 pages. Copy editing, design, and production by Wilsted & Taylor. Printing by Artron Art Printing, Ltd. Published by Modernism Inc. and Inkshares.

07/14/2022

I could not have asked for a more congenial and professional
group with which to work. Many thanks for helping to
produce this extraordinary book [ The Art of Joan Brown).
- KAREN TSUIMOTO, CHIEF CURATOR, OAKLAND MUSEUM OF CALIFORNIA

07/14/2022

To ensure the highest quality printing that is within a publisher’s budget, we work with experienced book and catalogue printers all over the world. After checking the press sheets, bluelines, and color proofs, we are always happy to go on press to work with the printer to achieve the finest printed results. We also provide letterpress printing for broadsheets, invitations, fine-edition books, and ephemera.

07/12/2022

When your project nears completion, we work closely with our small group of extremely qualified professional indexers to provide conceptual indexes in any field.

07/12/2022

For us, typography has always been the crucial heart of great printed work. ¶ We pay scrupulous attention to kerning text as well as titling fonts. We kern all our typefaces individually, referring whenever possible to the original hot-metal samples in the Wilsted & Taylor type library. Then, when all the letterspacing is near-perfect, we concentrate on achieving particularly even and smooth word spacing. ¶ Our typographers also look closely at how ragged, display, and caption type is breaking, and then they work to achieve the best appearance. ¶ We are as careful with how we expertly compose the pages of a project as we are with how we set its type, especially in complex scholarly books and museum catalogues that may involve placing hundreds of illustrations, charts, tabular material, footnotes, and sidenotes, sometimes in multi-column formats.

07/12/2022

Our experience during twenty-five years of designing books has strengthened our faith in the beauty of letterforms, the pure force of gracefully contrasted white space, and the pleasure of deftly composed and well-balanced pages. ¶ Our designs for books, museum catalogues, commercial catalogues, and jackets have won myriad awards from professional organizations throughout the country. ¶ We are also happy to design ephemera such as broadsheets, promotional brochures, note cards, menus, and posters.

07/11/2022

The editors at Wilsted & Taylor have vast experience in handling the special requirements of scholarly and curatorial detail in complex illustrated projects. Their skill at developing and managing our unwieldiest projects is matched only by their diplomacy when working with authors of same. ¶ These editors also perform our persnickety editorial checks, overseeing the accuracy of each project at every stage of production, with their to-the-point queries, long experience with ancient and modern languages, and depth of book and catalogue expertise.

07/11/2022

We coordinate and supervise all phases of production, taking a project from unedited manuscript through printing and binding. ¶ Because we do all the editing, design, typesetting, and layouts in our own shop, we enjoy great efficiencies in budget and schedule, as well as enviable control over quality. ¶ We work comfortably with a variety of excellent printers in Canada, Asia, Europe, and the United States. As part of project management, we expect to check the press sheets, bluelines, and color proofs. We also can offer complete color management for digital images. We provide expert supervision on press checks. ¶ We ride herd over the schedule from start to finish, and we make sure that, whatever it may take, your book or catalogue is ready when you need it.

07/11/2022

Since 1982, Wilsted & Taylor has offered the highest scholarly and aesthetic standards in the publishing world. Book-passionate folk, we approach our work with devotion to the great typographic and book-making traditions. ¶ Whether we are providing a single service, such as book typography, or comprehensive services—such as project management, editing, design, typography and layout, indexing, and printing—all of us are dedicated to providing outstanding craftsmanship. ¶ We are known for the range and depth of our services and for our well-integrated understanding of the requirements of book work. ¶ You will find Wilsted & Taylor in the best colophons.

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Tuesday	9am - 5pm
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Thursday	9am - 5pm
Friday	9am - 5pm

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