Journal

At some point in the design of On the record, I decided to use ornaments between each of the sections. It was a lovely idea. I had the perfect ornament. Emphasis on The. Singular. It was all fine until I needed to print it twice on one page. As I'd already printed the first page (and put all the letters away to print the next page), I was in a bit of a pickle. Changing the decorative ornament would have meant re-setting and re-printing four pages. This would have been a time-expensive problem. With nothing to lose, I put a...

Getting to know your neighbours.

I've come to the hard realisation that, actually, I haven't got enough letters to set the whole of On the Record at once. Initially, I'd envisioned setting a full signature of eight pages. Putting the letters away (leaving the sheet time to dry), and then composing and printing the reverse side of the same eight-page signature. Sadly, I only have enough letters to set four pages at once. And even then it's a bit tight (there were only two "o"s left when I finished the most recent spread). From the plus column: this means there will be less to tidy...

Have you got a favourite book? Not necessarily the topic, although that's important too, but the actual physical object. A book that you thought, "Yes, this is exactly how a book should be." Perhaps you even have a small collection of books that are differently perfect. (Please share pictures with me if you are in this lucky situation!) There were a few books we used as inspiration for the chapbook I'm putting together now. The first was Notes on Printing and Publishing Literary Books by Andrew Steeves. The second, A Daibo Coffee Manual, was more of an affirmation that we...