September 5 '08 - Harvey Milk is complete.
August 1 '08 - interrobang turns sweet sixteen.
July 25/6 '08 - rollin on Harvey Milk "Courtesy..." reprint.
June 22 '08 - The last ISIS Box Set has sold and shipped to Norge.
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 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.