2013 Calendars and Planners Are Here!

2013 Studio Hinrichs Typography Calendars 

The ever-popular Studio Hinrichs 2013 Typography Calendars are here at ARCH! Features 12 different typefaces by legends in graphic design and makes a great gift for the designer in your life! We offer it in two sizes; 12"x18" for $26.00 and 2'x3' for $44.00. 

2013 Stendig Calendars

This vintage calendar from the 1960's is still as popular as ever! Makes a great gift for the design-minded and makes a statement in any corporate environment or stylish home! Stendig Calendars sell for $40.00 and are 3'x4' wide.

2013 MOLESKINE Planners

Keep up with your busy school schedule, meetings, and hot dates with a MOLESKINE planner. ARCH has 18 Month Planners and Daily, Weekly, and Monthly Planners in hardcover and softcover styles. Planners start at just $14.95!

Come in and check out our selection of planners, calendars, and more here at ARCH!

Friday Nights at the de Young with Papergirl

This Friday join Papergirl SF and ARCH Drafting Supplies for a night of art making and bike related events as part of Friday Nights at the de Young. Check out all the free activities that will be taking part at this event.

Join the San Francisco Center for the Book in a letterpress and bookbinding demonstration. ARCH will bring supplies and materials to create your own work of art, which you can submit for this years Papergirl gallery show. Our friends at Rickshaw Bags will be on hand making bike flags.

There will also be a FREE limited edition broadside created by illustrator Michael Wertz available on a first come first served basis, so get there early.

Bring your friends and family to join in the activities, hear great music, have a cocktail, and explore the museum. Friday Nights at the de Young programs are free (admission applies to visit the galleries).

Back to School Extended Hours

Back to School is upon us and ARCH is ready to tackle all your supply needs to get your school year started right.

We'll also be extending our store hours this week to allow you extra time to gather all those lists and get everything in one visit. Our extended hours this week will go like this:

Tuesday & Wednesday - Normal hours, 9am - 6pm

Thursday & Friday - Open late, 9am - 8pm

Saturday the 8th - Open early, 10am - 5pm

We are well stocked on all your art & architecture needs. To name just a few;

Architecture / Engineering / Metric Scales
1000-H Drafting Vellum
Lead Holders and 2mm Leads
Adjustable Triangles
Koh-i-Noor Technical Pens
Chipboard, Museum Boards, E-Flute
Watercolor, Acrylic and Oil Paint
Gamblin and Winsor & Newton Painting Mediums,
Canvas, Arches, Somerset, Rives BFK and more
Princeton and Escoda paint brushes

Gamblin Art Sketching Oil Colors

ARCH is now stocking Gamblin Art Sketching Oil paints. Created specifically for those learning how to control colors in oil paint, Gablin ASO colors are made from the same finest quality pigments that Gamblin is known for. Made with no gelling agents, they have the more traditional feel of Gamblin Artists' Grade oil colors.

Available in an array of colors (including genuine Cadmium and Cobalt colors), ARCH is stocking the 150ml tubes, perfect for students looking for quantity, quality and economy.

Learn on the Gamblin ASO colors, and as your skills grow, expad your pallet with the Gamblin Artists' Grade oil colors, also available at ARCH.

Summer's almost over. Isn't it time to Get Your Sh*t Together?

Written by visual artist, curator and educator Karen Atkinson, Getting Your Sh*t Together is a comprehensive guide on the business of being an artist. The book covers most any situation and gives practical advice on everything from hanging artwork to hiring employees.

We would recommend this manual for artists of all backgrounds, who are looking for help organizing both the creative side and the business side of their life.

Get into ARCH and Get Your Sh*t Together today.

Falconboard - a Foam Board Alternative

How about a "green" alternative to Foam Boards? ARCH is now stocking Falconboard. It's honeycomb structure can handle the most demanding of graphic display requirements due to its high rigidity and dimensional stability.

Just a bit over 1/4" thick (17/64"), we have sheets available in 30" x 40" and 4' x 8'. Falconboard emits zero volatile organic compounds (VOCs), contains up to 20% chlorofluorocarbon-free recycled paper and is both bio-degradable and recyclable.

While the manufacture sees this primarily as a mounting board, we would love to see how this looks in a scale model.

We have a limited amount of samples if you want to try it out. Stop in to ARCH today!

Papergirl SF 2012 - Call For Entries

Calling all Artists, Makers, & Doers!

We invite you to participate in this year’s Papergirl SF project! Complete with art-wielding bike riders and bike-riding artists!

Papergirl is a community art project that distributes submitted art pieces by bicycle, freely and at random, to people in the streets of San Francisco, American paperboy style! All are welcome to participate.

We think art is best when shared, why else do it? As artists, we want to express ourselves creatively, show our creations to others, and start a conversation. Every day could use more art and kindness. Won't you join us? Send us your art, tell your friends and foes, and we'll see you in November with tires full of air and bags full of artwork, ripe for the giving.

Send roll-able artwork by October 20th to: 

Papergirl SF

PO Box 410156

San Francisco, CA 94141 

USA

You can also drop you art off right here at ARCH!