Jack Werner Stauffacher was an American printer, typographer, educator, and fine book publisher.
11 Facts About Jack Stauffacher
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Jack Stauffacher owned and operated Greenwood Press, a small book printing press based in the San Francisco Bay Area.
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Jack Stauffacher taught classes in design, typography, and printmaking at Carnegie Mellon University, Stanford University, University of California, Santa Cruz, and San Francisco Art Institute.
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Jack Stauffacher's father Frank A Stauffacher was a plumber, and his mother was Elsa R Stauffacher.
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Jack Stauffacher's brother, Frank Stauffacher, was a filmmaker and ran the pioneering Art in Cinema cinema series at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art from 1946 to 1954.
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Jack Stauffacher's first printed book appeared in 1941 when he was 20 years old, Washington Irving's "Three Choice Sketches By Geoffrey Crayon, Gent" based on The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent.
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Jack Stauffacher went on to become typographic director at Stanford University Press and to teach at the San Francisco Art Institute, and University of California, Santa Cruz.
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Jack Stauffacher was added to the distinguished list of AIGA medalists in 2004.
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Jack Stauffacher was the subject of an article and his work featured on the cover of the groundbreaking Emigre magazine in 1998.
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Jack Stauffacher died at home in Tiburon, California, in November 2017, at the age of 96.
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Jack Stauffacher's work was the subject of a short biographical documentary film by filmmaker Jim Faris, Jack Stauffacher, Printer.