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I’ve finished 5 new banners for a website design commissioned by the Department of Comparative Literature  at U.C. Berkeley. When the website is on the U.C. servers, I will post a link.

The banners use great material from the Bancroft Library, as well as the French Library at U.C. The example here showcases prints by Jack Stauffacher and a journal excerpt by Philip Whalen, mentioning that Kerouac was in town and they were hanging out at Ferlinghetti’s place in Big Sur. Other banners contain collages based on latin, arabic, hebrew, and old english texts. © The Bancroft Library

This classic and beautiful guide to BEAT Generation haunts in the Bay Area, is being reprinted by City Lights and will be available again soon. The walking tour guide, put together by master archivist Bill Morgan, allows you to retrace the steps of illustrious poets and artists who called the Bay Area home. The iconic cover photograph was shot by Larry Keenan.

This project was a favorite of mine, as I got to design with great images from the fabled “Days and Nights at City Lights” archive, a rich trove of over 50 years of photos and ephemera from CL. The book will assist any fan in locating storied places such as the apartment building where Ginsberg wrote Howl. Check it out. A walking tour is the perfect way to spend one of those incredible, non foggy, June days in San Francisco, followed up by a refreshment at Tosca!