January '11 - a rush Order of Service, continuing typesetting and presswork on"My Dust...", typesetting a new ISIS LP, et alia.
January '11 - delivered business cards for The Brattle Bookshop.
December '11 - a small handful of copies of an exercise in brevity hand-set in 24pt small Helvetica Regular Extended, and 42 & 54pt Helvetica Extra Bold Extended. Copies for sale on Etsy.
December '11 - 100 A-2 notecards hand-set in vintage 16pt Trump Gravur.
December '11 - 1000 more 6x9 booklet envelopes hand-set in ATF Garamond for the Society of Printers monthly invitations.
December '11 - quick 3c menu for the Society of Printers hand-set in ATF Garamond 459 & 460, and antique 18pt Holly Border No. 10.
November '11 - after encountering a snafu typesetting "My Dust is My Nature", I put digital form to Robert Burns 1785 poem "To A Mouse" as an ode to plans "Gang aft agley"...
November '11 - working on business cards for WMBR DJ Doug Gesler and his "Lost Highway" Radio Show. Hand set in 24pt Koch Antiqua, and 10pt Stempel Trajanus.
November '11 - began typesetting Cora Roelofs' "My Dust Is My Nature" a 32 page chapbook set on the Lino, to be hand printed on the Vandercook in an edition of 100.
November '11 - a quick little one for the Stumptown Press "Yea Big" exhibit handset in 18pt Koch Antiqua, and ATF Penline Flourishes. And a 10pt Americana interrobang...
October '11 - WMBR came back for another year's Fundraiser postcards handset in various sizes and styles of foundry Eurostile.
October '11 - promo leave-behind cards handset in foundry ATF Garamond Roman & Italic with swash caps, and Bauer Columna.
October '11 - some bookmark wedding favors in foundry Palatino Italic with swash caps, and Garamond.
September '11 - designed a simple and elegant moving announcement in ATF Kaufmann Script, and Garamond.
September '11 - posted Baxter Society slides from my talk in May.
July '11 - designed and printed handset gig poster for Harvey Milk / Now Denial in huge 66, 54, 42 & 30pt Stempel Helvetica Extra Bold Extended.
July '11 - designing and quoting a chapbook. at folding dummy stage - 32mo, machine set on the Lino in Erbar.
June '11 - handset baby announcement for that Chunklet Guy and his better half in Garamond and ATF Ribbon Border.
June '11 - designed and printed an impromptu gig poster for CLOUDS / 27 handset in huge 120pt ATF Spartan and Helvetica.
June '11 - a rush order for 18 sets of personalized note cards, set on the Linotype in Dwiggins Metromedium.
May '11 - belly bands for a 3 cd set by the Tenhornedbeast on Handmade Birds. Handset in Wilhelm Klingspor=Schrift and Trajanus.
May '11 - Society of Printers Annual Meeting, and a speaking engagement addressing the Baxter Society of Portland, ME
April '11 - reran 1000 sheets of SP Letterhead, then income taxes. Up next, SP Treasurer's Reports for 2011, and covers for the SP "Honor Bound" keepsake. Too many freebees...
April '11 - a quick invitation for the Letterpress Guild of New England Spring Schmooze.
March '11 - presswork and finishing complete on LP jackets for SIGE Records - Mamiffer/House of Low Culture/Merzbow - "Lou Lou... in Tokyo". Shipped to Sige and Thrill Jockey.
March '11 - shipped gatefold CD jackets for Imaad Wasif to Viva Hate Records in Berlin.
March '11 - a Death Certificate for the City of Boston Printing Department. A few copies for sale on Etsy
March '11 - rescued a few sizes of rare 19th Century type from the City of Boston Print Department auction
February '11 - just shipped 500 2c all-purpose greeting cards for the Bahá'i Church.
January '11 - hand set his & hers note cards in Weiss Series I initials and Weiss Italic.
late December '10 - hand set holiday cards for sale on Etsy in Nicholas Cochin Bold and Koch Antiqua.
early December '10 - back at it with some hand set gift certificates in various sizes and styles of Eurostile.
November 7 '10 - bouncing around on a few projects, the house repair and painting not withstanding, finally got some promo posters done up.
September '10 - layout ready for another Viva Hate CD sleeve. Reissue of Imaad Wasif's "The Voidist" & "Strange Hexes". Using the brand new Dale Guild Williamsburg ornaments.
August 26 '10 - delivered LP sleeves. just in time for some summer vacation. The shop will be closed through Labor Day.
Memorial Day '10 - 1st draft book design proposal for the SP. Percy Grassby by Marcus McCorison.
late May '10 - another joint with Thomas at Viva Hate in Berlin, DE. Der Weg Einer Freiheit CD package. hand-set in Trajanus.
May 4 '10 - prepared, printed and bound 200 copies of the 2010 SP Treasurer's Report to present May 5th at the SP Annual Meeting.
May Day weekend - a rush bar mitzvah invitation hand-set in Solemnis and various Eurostiles on white Hahnemühle Bugra.
April 18 '10 - 1500 6 x 9 booklet envelopes hand-set in Garamond for SP mailings.
April 11-12 '10 - 100 receipts hand-set in Garamond for the Society of Printers
March '10 - working on designs for a CD sleeve to be hand-set in Trajanus for Viva Hate in Berlin.
Super Bowl Sunday '10 - 500 simple hand-set "Smartistry cards" for the H&G holiday mailing.
January '10 - a quick specimen layout for Klingspor Zeppelin before running the gold on the New Year card.
January '10 - working on a new years card using the run of Koch Antiqua in the shop from 8pt to monumental 36pt großbuchstaben.
December 20 '09 - a quick holiday gift for a relative I've never met... Stationery in two colors. Hope he likes News Gothic.
December 4 '09 - 20 boxes of ISIS Live V LPs shipped out to Berlin. man that was a big job.
November '09 - squeezed in a quick invitation for the Letterpress Guild visit in December. and then back to the ISIS LPs
October '09 - another sleeve for ISIS; 2000 copies of the Live V CD - hand and Lino-set in Garamond on 100# "Jellybean Green" French Poptone.
September '09 - another platepress job... a 7" single sleeve of relative complexity for friends 27. art by Dan McCarthy.
September '09 - 17 runs for a rather involved series of cards done platepress (2 day turn-around) for a Bar Mitzvah invitation.
August 1 '09 - interrobang celebrates 17 years. Currently working on a submission for the Vandercook Centenary bundle.
July 21 '09 - Specimen booklet for Gladiola newly laid in cases last month.
June 1 '09 - shipping Harvey Milk Anthem Ltd. DVD for Henry at Chunklet.
May '09 - finished and presented the Treasurer's Report for the Society of Printers.
April '09 - finished stationery for the Society of Printers. 1000 letterhead, 500 all-purpose No. 10, 500 w/treasurer's address.
late December '08 - wrapper for Hunt & Gather's Hoilday mailing. brown, and silver metallic inks on brown.
early December '08 - menu for the December Society of Printers dinner meeting. 100 year old border ornament, set in Cloister Black and Caslon.
June 14-15 '08 - deep in process. HM poster. first piece of meaty work since moving shop. feels good to stretch out a bit with total creative control.
June 11 '08 - culled through 718 early aeronautic images. came up with this. Harvey Milk - summer solstice - Boston
April 13 '08 - after a depressing 5 days of jury duty on a criminal case (5 guilty verdicts), I'm packing the remaining 800/1000ths of the ISIS Live IV to ship.
April 5 - 7 '08 - shifting gears back to HAND006. typesetting, make-up and 3 press runs of 1000 completed in 48 hours.
April 3 '08 - shipped 200/1000ths of the ISIS Live IV LP sleeves to LA. Tour begins the 10th in Moscow.
March 15 '08 - back on the ISIS Live IV LP sleeve. This one has taken a long time to come together. Measure five times, cut once?...
¶ Next up; HAND006 in the design stage.
March 13 '08 - just completed the 5th in the series of Brainwashed Handmade discs, HAND005. Hand and Montotype set and printed on "Navy Blue" Crane's Palette 90# cover.
February 11 '08 - just in time for Valentine's Day. Shakespeare's Sonnet 116 done up hand-set on Johannot 124gsm and hand colored in an edition of 50 copies.
February 8 '08 - delivered the first job off the platen, a 50 piece hand & Linotype set A2 announcement and RSVP postcard for a corporate client who appreciates the hand work.
February 5 '08 - the Chandler & Price platen press is motorized. The shop is officially back up and running.
January 27 '08 - the Chandler & Price platen press is sited, assembled and tuned up to once again do 1st class work. Motorization is slated for the 1st week in February.
January 19 '08 - the Hammond Glider composing room saw is repaired, rewired, assembled, and dropped into place in the basement.
December 17 '07 - ahhh well. The move is complete, and the holidays are here. The Vandercook is set up. Got the paper cutter set up this past weekend. Need to get the C&P and the Glider squared away and a new work bench built. ¶ For a limited time, the ISIS http://www.flickr.com/photos/interrobang918/sets/72157625974832900/Box Set is ON SALE.
September 3 '07 - quick update and back to the back breaking task of breaking a shop and home down to move. visual document continues to unfold here.
August '07 - I've found a little single family 8/10th of a mile from here and am in the process of purchasing and planning the move. and packing. lots of packing.
July '07 - EVICTED! after 15 years living and doing my art quietly at the Monument in Jamaica Plain, I must vacate by 8/31.
May '07 - delivered the follow up wedding invitation, no. 10 policy envelope, and response postcard, Lino set in various sizes of Metromedium and Metrolite from 8 - 30pt and printed 2/2 on Crane's Lettra. ¶ delivered 3-run presentation covers for a corporate client comprised of a deboss, varnish and PMS 877 silver. ¶ ran a couple hundred simple maker's labels for a classical guitar luthier on the Cape.
April '07 - delivered a 2/2 Save the Date in hand set Goudy Old Style printed on 2-ply Rising Museum Board.
March '07 - 8 of 10 entries submitted accepted for contemporaryletterpress.com exhibition in N. Adams, MA. gosh. ¶ press proofs for a 7 part stationery package. 26 hours. ouch.
February '07 - The ISIS "OCEANIC" box set is sold out. I have (8) copies ready to ship. I had 10. When these are gone, you'll be at the mercy of ebaY. One per customer.
February '07- A-2 Annual Meeting invitation and response card for a VC client who likes the handset details. ¶ designed and slowly building out a site for the Letterpress Guild of New England. lgne.org
November '06 - worked with Matthew Carter on an invitation for his talk to the Society of Printers on the subject of Bruce Rogers' Centaur types. Set digitally from a proprietary cut of Centaur based on Robert Wiebking's interpretation found in Rogers' book "The Centaur Types".
October '06 - just shipped covers off to Dearborn for a new ltd Windy & Carl release, Akimatsuri. Produced exclusively for the Brainwashed 10th Anniversay Fest.
September '06 - two new CD packages for the Brainwashed Handmade series. HAND003 & HAND004.
mid August '06 - tapped to print the 2006 Society of Printers directory cover. Design by fellow member Lance Hidy using his Penumbra face. 124gsm Canson Johannot.
late June '06 - the long awaited ISIS "OCEANIC Remixes/Reinterpretations" Box Set has shipped! can i get a hell yeah? copper logo blocks, Linotype Garamond No. 3 and hand set ATF Garamond 459 in 10, 11, 12, 14, 16, and 72pt.
mid June '06 - a nice little wedding invitation set in Linotype Janson small caps and hand set Juliet Script.
late April '06 - ISIS Live.04 disc sleeves. handset Garamond in brown on brown. something something the new black.
March '06 - hand set business cards for WMBR "Lost Highway" DJ and drinking companion Doug Gesler. 24pt Koch Antiqua and various smaller size of Trajanus.
January '06 - much work done and photographed, no time to post.
April '05 - a little 3c wedding invite, a gig poster for Sonic Youth for sale here, a stationery system, ISIS Live.03 CD cover. stuff, stuff, and more stuff.
November '04 - ISIS Live.02 CD covers. blink - they're gone.
September '04 - wedding invitation. - hand set in rare Trajanus Roman & Italic. printed in PMS 871 metallic gold and black on "Tangerine" Canford Card.
September 12, 12:00 noon - pi on the composing room floor. - done while setting the job above. ahh yeah.
August '04 - 300 3 color single covers. ATF Fry's Baskerville and newly minted Arrighi Ornaments from the Dale Guild pressed into service for Henry & Sarah wedding party 'favour' (see below).
July '04 - nice little 2c wedding invite hand set in rare Weiss Series I Initials, Italic and Roman. Printed on Fabriano Medioevalis.
June '04 - 3 color invite/broadsides for Henry at Chunklet.com it's a poster, it's a self mailer. a party? you're soaking in it. congrats to he and Sarah. hand-set in 84, 72 & 30pt Huxley Vertical in PMS 875 and a bunch of News Gothics and ornament in PMS 420 on French 'Steel Blue'.
June '04 - 500 4 color fund announcements for a Newton private equity firm. hairline registration on a 100 year old press. no sweat. the plate finish Mohawk helped...
May '04 - small 2c wedding invite suite on Arches Johannot, with diecut folder. knifed my 1st die. ran like a dream. in the name of full disclosure, the directions and envelopes were printed on a "laser" printer.
September '03 - ISIS Live.01 CD's hit the street.