Showing posts with label blogs. Show all posts
Showing posts with label blogs. Show all posts

Tuesday, June 25, 2013

Recommended: Photos of printers using antique equipment in Guatemala, Central America


I can’t say I recommend this blog about the travels of Chris Vervaeke, a Mississauga, Ontario man with a Bolivian knitted toy penguin that he uses as a gimmicky storytelling device. 

But I genuinely appreciated his photos of the printing shop with moveable-type equipment that he visited in Guatemala and especially his sensitive portraits of the printers. 

Although, quite amazingly, the blogger neglects to identify the location of the shop, called Francisco Franco and Son, other clues in the text point to Quetzaltenango (the country's second-largest city, called Xelajú or Xela locally) as the most likely site.

Link to photos at:
http://adventureswithpedro.com/movable-type-printing-press/

Thursday, December 13, 2012

Respected blog raises $62.5K on line to publish premium printed magazine


Next year, after 80 years in print, the mainstream news magazine Newsweek goes all-digital.  But the edgy, Toronto-based Creative Applications Network is moving the other way--from an authoritative art-and-technology blog to an upscale printed magazine examining the convergence of art, science, and technology.

The new magazine, called HOLO (logo shown at left), is planned as a premium, twice-a-year, 150-to-200-page publication on high-quality stock with a cover price of $30.  Its international content will be “dedicated to rich, detailed stories that demand time and attention. At HOLO they are committed to telling these stories – attentively and expertly – in a patient, spacious medium that does them justice.”  (Profuse thanks for this poem on printing to Technology Will Save Us.)

To help meet the new magazine’s estimated start-up production costs of $35,000, its publishers are raising capital on Kickstarter, a fund-sourcing Website.  As of 10 o’clock this morning, with 48 hours still to go in the campaign, the new magazine has already amassed an impressive $62,434 from 820 backers.

I can’t wait to get my hands on their first issue.

http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2012/10/18/a-turn-of-the-page-for-newsweek.html

Addendum on Friday, December 14, 2012:
As of 10 a.m. today, with 24 hours still left to go in its on-line fundraising campaign, the publication has collected $64,725 from 865 backers (185% of its $35,000 goal.)