When I'm officially working, I spend many hours hunched over a table, doing small fiddly things. On my day off, I unwind and relax by...drilling holes through small stones. By hand. With a push-drill. I am insane ( Read more... )

I never really intended to sort out the 6-point Goudy. It's tiny and difficult, and there's a lot of it. But I was trying to set some more pages of my book, and was increasingly frustrated at how much everything was in the wrong place, and clogged up with wholly unrelated sizes and faces of type, and so eventually I just gave up and started ( Read more... )

Commencement was the usual collection of long speeches, but had lots of good bits, and I was glad I went. I found myself wishing I was graduating, only I don't really want to yet. I still have things to do there. Mainly, there's a lot of type still to sort, and set, and print. I realize there are places outside the school where those things can ( Read more... )

This is the smallest book I've made so far.

( Very small book )

It's been a surprisingly relaxed and productive day, considering how close to the end of the semester we are. I was at school for ten hours or so, as usual, but I wasn't doing any really exhausting stuff like printing. Instead, I assembled the portfolio thing into which the prints go, for protection and display. It took most of the day, and now ( Read more... )

"I'll just brush my teeth, and then do some work on the typography brochure before I go to sleep," I said. So I brushed my teeth, and washed my face, and decided that the sink definitely needed to be scrubbed out with cleanser, because it's been a while since I got around to that. That didn't take too long, but then I was looking at the drain ( Read more... )

Today I decided to be brave and go inquire about the possibility of doing summer work-study in the book arts lab. There's a huge amount of stuff that could be done, and of course there's not a hope in hell of me doing any of it while school is taking up so much of my time and attention. I thought I might need to write up some kind of proposal, ( Read more... )

A preliminary version of the Drift Project for my Visual Communication class is online. I have until Wednesday morning to tinker with it. Any comments are welcome, but it's true that it's not likely to get any major overhauls between now and then, because I need the time for fuckingtypography homework instead ( Read more... )

Ygh, image maps. ImageReady makes them, and I get to use them. It's an ugly bunch of code, for sure ( Read more... )

Gosh, it's been a long day. I got two press runs in, which means the printed part of my page is finished. The next step is a lot of cutting and assembling of layers.

( I like the ligatures in this typeface )