Monthly Archives: March 2008

I’m Chevy Chase, and you’re not.

Time for another weekend update! I swear that the more I try to do, the faster time keeps moving. I make these to-do lists that, at the time, I think are perfectly reasonable and realistic goals. I’m meticulous and focused and then suddenly, oops, there goes the weekend! To be perfectly honest, I don’t think

At long last!

After great, totally-uninteresting-to-describe scheduling hurdles en route to more letterpress printing…I’ve finally printed new cards! They’ll be up in the gallery section of my site and on Etsy soon, but here’s a sneak peek. Enjoy!

Measure twice. Cut once.

It’s not exactly that I’m a machine or that anything is even remotely automated about how I make books these days, but I do work with a specific process and go through very particular stages when I’m trying to get a fairly large volume of work done. I spent the weekend folding and tearing down

So, I have a slight paper addiction

Yes, all covers…30 new books coming very soon! It’s going to be a busy little weekend.

Back to book basics

Besides my practical experience, my background inlcudes a whole lotta history and art and somehow I do seem to keep ending up back at the Italian Renaissance. On a whim on Sunday, I started reading a chapter in Philip Meggs’s History of Graphic Design, which Matt had left out as a casual suggestion that I