About
Repose Print is the (private) studio and press of Alexa Goff, an archivist and artist in Eugene, Oregon.
I work with paper and print in many formats, textures, dimensions, and configurations.
I’ve studied and practiced a variety of artistic and academic approaches to the book including: letterpress and RISO printing, bookbinding, papermaking, zine-making, and early modern antiquarian librarianship.
A Very Personal Timeline of Bookish Things in My Life
<1994
Who knows, but definitely repeat performances of There’s A Wocket in My Pocket
1995
Savored the tragic illustrations of “The Little Match Girl” in a Fairy Tale Treasury, a gift from my aunt I still have
1996
Grandparents gave me My First Dictionary
1997
Tried to read 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea (why?)
1998
We moved so frequently I couldn’t return my library copy of The Little House on the Prairie and this transgression haunted me
1999
Mostly Spice Girls and Britney liner notes
2000
A millenial girl rite of passage, The Care and Keeping of You: The Body Book for Girls by American Girl (yes, the dolls)
2001
Obligatory Alice in Wonderland phase
2002
Checked out I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings from my school library and wept profoundly and secretly
2003
Ordered The Sandman via ILL through my rural public library; very subversive (also f*ck NG)
2004
My best friend and I sped through fantasy novels
2005
Created and printed my first zine Leg Over Leg with my first love
2006
Thinking too highly of Kerouac
2007
Poems and letters in the mail
2008
Things Fall Apart and new perspectives
2009
A gifted copy of Love in the Time of Cholera
2010
Took a seminar called “Reading and Re-Reading” and I’m still re-reading
2012-3
Made some mighty fine artist’s books for my senior exhibition
2014
The Swerve convinced me to study the history of the book
2015
Had the immense good luck to find a job as a library conservation lab assistant repairing book spines
2016
Processed archival collections of original children’s illustrations including beautiful works by Cornelius De Witt in the Golden Book Encyclopedia
2017
Miniature libraries; and, Rare Book School in the immense July heat of Virginia
2018
Library degree; I’m committed
>2019
Still processing
A Very Personal Timeline of Bookish Things in My Life
<1994
Who knows, but definitely repeat performances of There’s A Wocket in My Pocket
1995
Savored the tragic illustrations of “The Little Match Girl” in a Fairy Tale Treasury, a gift from my aunt I still have
1996
Grandparents gave me My First Dictionary
1997
Tried to read 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea (why?)
1998
We moved so frequently I couldn’t return my library copy of The Little House on the Prairie and this transgression haunted me
1999
Mostly Spice Girls and Britney liner notes
2000
A millenial girl rite of passage, The Care and Keeping of You: The Body Book for Girls by American Girl (yes, the dolls)
2001
Obligatory Alice in Wonderland phase
2002
Checked out I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings from my school library and wept profoundly and secretly
2003
Ordered The Sandman via ILL through my rural public library; very subversive (also f*ck NG)
2004
My best friend and I sped through fantasy novels
2005
Created and printed my first zine Leg Over Leg with my first love
2006
Thinking too highly of Kerouac
2007
Poems and letters in the mail
2008
Things Fall Apart and new perspectives
2009
A gifted copy of Love in the Time of Cholera
2010
Took a seminar called “Reading and Re-Reading” and I’m still re-reading
2012-3
Made some mighty fine artist’s books for my senior exhibition
2014
The Swerve convinced me to study the history of the book
2015
Had the immense good luck to find a job as a library conservation lab assistant repairing book spines
2016
Processed archival collections of original children’s illustrations including beautiful works by Cornelius De Witt in the Golden Book Encyclopedia
2017
Miniature libraries; and, Rare Book School in the immense July heat of Virginia
2018
Library degree; I’m committed
>2019
Still processing
Colophon
Fonts used on this website
Various weights. Source.
Sutro was designed by Jim Parkinson of Parkinson Type Design in 2003.
Various weights. Source.
Trade Gothic Next is a redesign of the original Trade Gothic, first designed by Jackson Burke for Linotype in 1948 (and augmented until 1960). TGN was released in 2009 by Monotype/Linotype and designed by Akira Kobayashi and Tom Grace.
