binderman

Finished the pain in the ass album packaging project on Monday. Hundreds of hours for a simple favor, and me, I'm a guy who knows now how to say no.

Tonight the interns brought friends over and the studio was all crowded with eager grad students all excited to do stuff, and we ended up doing 500 impressions on the letterpress. Which is kind of...
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It's done. I've held a few copies back to send to record labels, but after this I'm wondering if I want to take on another job like this. Getting paid might make a difference, might make it not feel like such a big pile of crap... but the way we work here, just doing what we want, when we want, how we want, and changing...
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Nearly done with the pain in the ass project. I've sent the specs off to other manufacturers to get quotes, so I can give them to the guy when he asks me to make more. I wanted to just say no, but even if he's crazy and impossible to work with, I still understand that he just cares deeply about his project, and I get...
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We've accepted a few new authors, a couple poets, a couple fiction people. For one of the fictioners, we're doing a chap, an excerpted kind of thing, pamphlet-stitched with a letterpressed cover -- and I'm kind of excited about the book, and maybe more excited about the stuff we're doing around the book. Art cards and a series of paint-by-numbers paintings (cradled birch panels, the...
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