Happenstance Type-O-Rama

They rolled out the red carpet for Happenstance Type-O-Rama and Agent 001 at the Frankfurt Buchmesse 2023. We are thrilled to have already connected with our friends at and . Let’s connect if you’re in Frankfurt too.

Happenstance Agent 001 (Maureen Forys) and Agent 003 (Cody Gates) were thrilled to attend the book launch for The Inclusive Language Field Guide by Suzanne Wertheim, Ph.D. We couldn’t be more proud to have handled the interior design and production for this powerful, informative, and practical guide to understanding and using inclusive language. Congratulations to Suzanne and her publisher (and our long-time client) Berrett-Koehler for another amazing contribution to changing our world for the better.

Twenty twenty-three seems to be the year for designing and setting giant tomes. Happenstance recently received our copy of I Ching, The Oracle, published by North Atlantic Books, and we couldn’t be more proud. Complicated and technical doesn’t mean you have to sacrifice good design and beautiful typography. With nearly 1,000 pages of tables within tables, in both Chinese and English, the challenge was to find an elegant way to present the intense amount of information in both the print and ebook. Another cipher cracked!

Did you know the agents of Happenstance Type-O-Rama make more than beautiful books? One recent example—The Cantigee Oracle, written by Rae Diamond with art by Laura Zuspan—is a stunning deck of cards that we created and designed with our partners at North Atlantic Books. Partnerships not platforms!

The agents of Happenstance Type-O-Rama are proud to have produced and designed the 1200-page culinary tome An Italian Feast: The Celebrated Provincial Cuisines of Italy from Como to Palermo, a Culinary Vade Mecum Illustrated with More Than 800 Recipes from Italy’s 109 Provinces and 20 Regions by independent, James Beard award-winning author, Clifford A. Wright. Mega Mission accomplished!

The agents of Happenstance Type-O-Rama are proud to have produced and designed the 1200-page culinary tome An Italian Feast: The Celebrated Provincial Cuisines of Italy from Como to Palermo, a Culinary Vade Mecum Illustrated with More Than 800 Recipes from Italy’s 109 Provinces and 20 Regions by independent, James Beard award-winning author, Clifford A. Wright. Mega Mission accomplished! #typeorama #happenstance #bookstagram #bookpackaging #designmatters #design #graphicdesign #publishing #books #book #booklaunch #booklover #selfpublishing #indieauthor #cookbook #cookinghistory

It's always a privilege to sponsor and attend the annual conference. This year was extra meaningful, since the agents of Happenstance reconnected with many publishing partners and pals that we haven't seen in person since the before times.

Come down to San Francisco Zine Fest 2019! and I will be here til 5. @ San Francisco County Fair Building

The agents of Happenstance Type-O-Rama are proud to have produced and designed this timely and important title by Berrett-Koehler publishers.

It’s always a nice surprise to walk into a clients’ foyer and discover that a book designed and set by the agents of Happenstance Type-O-Rama has won an award!

Make: Tips and Tales from the Workshop, designed and managed by Happenstance Type-O-Rama, came out a couple of months back. Agent 013’s beautiful illustrations are truly a highlight of this beautiful book.

Anyone ready for some stamp bingo (or Agent 001 getting ready for the San Francisco Correspondence Co-ops 7th Birthday Party).

Agent 001 recently spent 10 days teaching students at University of Redlands Johnston Center (her alma mater) about book design in conjunction with producing a 50th anniversary book for the program.

Book bound: Students create commemorative book for Johnston’s 50th In the Bekins Hall basement one balmy May afternoon, book designer Maureen Forys ’93 was giving a group of students from the Johnston Center for Integrative Studies a quiz. It was an entertaining experience, sure, but the May Term class had a serious goal: They were designing a commemorative art b...

Agent 001 is doing double duty this week—taking Happenstance on the road while working with the Johnston 50th book team, shown here assembled and reporting for duty!

Agent 001 spent Friday moderating the panel, "Diversity and Inclusion: Getting Started and Keeping Up the Momentum," at this years PPN conference co-sponsored by Bay Area Women in Publishing. It was an honor and a privilege to be on this panel with fellow BAWiP board member Johanna Vondeling and diversity and inclusion expert Farzana Nayani (). Thanks again to everyone who participated and shared their experiences and ideas.

The agents of Happenstance don’t just make books for publishers. We also love helping independent authors bring their projects to fruition.

Some new titles for our clients North Atlantic Books and CAST by the Agents of Happenstance Type-O-Rama

London is an amazing type city (followed, in my view, only by Paris).

London's Kerning: An Excerpt - CreativePro.com In this excerpt from his book, London's Kerning, Glenn Fleishman examines the two typefaces that have grown to define London’s image.

Happy 2018 from the agents at Happenstance Type-O-Rama. We are excited for another year of making beautiful books.

A few new Happenstance-created titles, now available in print and pixels.

Happenstance was thrilled to provide design and composition services to the Community of Writers at Squaw Valley for the 2016 Poetry Review.

The agents of Happenstance raise a martini to 007 today.

Happenstance Type-O-Rama updated their information in their About section.

Happenstance on Twitter “HappenSummit Day 1: In which our mission gets stated, our hunger gets sated, and our web site will soon no longer be antiquated. ”

Occasionally Agent 001 sneaks away from the books to work on personal design projects. This print, “Year of the Fire Hen” (featuring dearly departed and stellar hen Exene), is one such project. It's featured as part of a letterpress print exchange called “Designing Women” that was shown this year at the Southern Graphics conference in Atlanta.

Happenstance is proud to be a sponsor of the 2017 PPN Conference.

Agent 001 on the plenary panel at PPN.

Happenstance is a proud sponsor of the 2017 Publishing Professionals Network Conference.

Agent 001 on the plenary panel at PPN.

Maureen Forys, live now at PPN.

ReMaking History, Volume 3 is out. This completes the trilogy, all brought to fruition by Happenstance Type-O-Rama for Maker Media.