The final step of the letterpress printing was the cover wrapper. It was too large to be printed on the Albion handpress so Norman set up his Vandercook 325G cylinder press for me. This is a giant press. Cover wrapper text locked up for printing. The finished cover wrapper. Again, worth the effort. [...]
To print the text in the photobook I used the Albion foolscap folio handpress at Norman McKnight’s Philoxenia Press. This was my first time using a handpress and I became pretty comfortable using it during the hours I spent printing. My four pages of book text typeset and ready for printing. One page locked [...]
Letterpress printing is too complicated to try to explain in blog posts. So here are some photos and videos to give an idea of how I printed the text for my new book. Norman McKnight’s assistance was invaluable, and in addition to being a letterpress expert, he’s an amazing cook. Title page text Dummy [...]
After I create the InDesign document, I start to rough in the text. This continues a process that has been going on in my head for weeks or months. My first goal is to get a rough impression of what I’ve been visualizing into the computer. For this book I created a half-title page, a [...]
Photograph Layout Concepts Layout from “This Is Not My Sky” After the selection of images, my focus in my new book was how the images would be laid out on the page. My first book “This Is Not My Sky” had one image per page with a static layout that was repeated for each image. [...]
Over the past couple of weeks I’ve made some serious progress on my new book. The image selection and layout of the photo pages is nearly complete. Also, I finished the letterpress printing of the text pages and cover wrapper. Now I have some time to continue documenting the photobook creation process. InDesign My primary [...]
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