We (Craft Printing House) have just finished casting, printing and binding a new chapbook by Phil Elverum, a companion to Mt. Eerie’s latest album Night Palace. The standard edition is a run of 2000, 56 pages with soft cover and a wrap-around dust jacket. There is an additional lettered edition which will be cloth bound by Jules Remedios Faye, with hand lettered spine and cover labels done by Phil. It’s the first book we’ve produced start to finish at the Clatskanie shop space—cast on the Linotype 31, text block and covers printed on the Heidelberg 13x18, and the dust jackets on the Vandercook Universal 1AB. We’re excited to celebrate the completion at the book release event on October 6, 2024 at the Birkenfeld Theatre.
The release event is part of a pilot Artist in Residency program that the C.C. Stern Type Foundry is sponsoring. Visual or literary artists are able to come to our “campus” in Clatskanie and explore a project with the technical support of the Foundry volunteers (currently by invitation only). As part of this experience, the artist is asked to give some kind of public presentation about their creative process. The poster pictured was composed with a combination of hand set metal foundry type and Linotype (text and decorative material). Printed in two metallic ink colors on the Vandercook Universal 1AB.
