The End
The last page of the 1,040-page Typesetting Dash.The post The End appeared first on The Offices of Kat Ran Press.
View ArticleBack from the Printer: Test Drive Edition
We were honored to be the very first to try out (in print) an unreleased family of types by David Jonathan Ross. See how the letters look when printed on paper when you order your own copy of Mass...
View ArticleAnd Today at the White House….
Kat Ran Poet Julie Alvarez received the National Medal of Arts today. Congratulations, buddy! Celebrate with your own copy of Seven Trees.The post And Today at the White House…. appeared first on The...
View ArticleBook Design and Aprons
We have the opening and closing quotes in a Boston Globe article about aprons, and our approach to aprons is akin to our approach to books: “We’re big proponents of less being more. Essentially we...
View ArticleMy Suffolk Downs
Boston’s historic Suffolk Downs racetrack has closed down for good. See our book about the people who made it run.The post My Suffolk Downs appeared first on The Offices of Kat Ran Press.
View ArticleWe Heart Hartz
You love what he did with Juliana’s face, so see almost every single one of Sem Hartz’s stamps here.The post We Heart Hartz appeared first on The Offices of Kat Ran Press.
View ArticleStamps Ate Niko’s Brain
We could listen to Kat Ran author Niko Courtelis talk about stamps for hours. Now you can watch him talk about stamps for an hour and eight minutes. Or, just order a copy of his Philatelic...
View ArticleNew Book!
Towards a Reform of the Paper Currency particularly in point of its design by W.A. Dwiggins (with a new introduction by Bruce Kennett) is shipping today! Order one now and potentially use it as a...
View ArticleNew Book!
A Checklist of the 100-Cent Postage Stamps Designed by Jan van Krimpen: It’s got war, oppression, rejection, and redemption, Jan van Krimpen, and a note on Rocky Stinehour. What more could one hope...
View ArticleThe Kat Ran Collections
A record of the non-stamp collections we put together when we should be doing other things is now available for your small review here.The post The Kat Ran Collections appeared first on The Offices of...
View ArticleCape Cod Kwassa Kwassa
Pull out your steel drums, On Cape Cod is back from the printer just in time for summer. Get this book we designed for David R. Godine and enjoy the Cape from your home. It’ll save you from getting...
View ArticleYou Demanded and We Complied
All the stamps of Barnett Freedman are now on our site. See for yourself. The post You Demanded and We Complied appeared first on The Offices of Kat Ran Press.
View ArticleYou Demanded and We Complied
All of Walter Baum’s stamps are on our site. See for yourself. The post You Demanded and We Complied appeared first on The Offices of Kat Ran Press.
View ArticleSwimsuit Season
The perfect beach read, The Mary Julia Paintings of Joan Brown, is back from the printer. See some of the twenty or so spreads we designed here and get a copy for yourself here. The post Swimsuit...
View ArticleYou Demanded and We Complied
All of Otto Hupp’s stamps are now on our site. See for yourself. The post You Demanded and We Complied appeared first on The Offices of Kat Ran Press.
View ArticleYou Demanded and We Complied
You demanded and we complied: 91% of Jerzy Desselberger’s stamps are now on our site. See for yourself. The post You Demanded and We Complied appeared first on The Offices of Kat Ran Press.
View ArticleHUP: Yeah, You Know Me
We prepared layouts and specs for Flaubert, a new biography from Harvard University Press. The book was then set by someone else (as per HUP procedures) which, frankly, felt like having someone else...
View ArticleRocky Stinehour: 21 March 1925 – 2 July 2016
A few minutes before this photo was taken in 2002, Rocky Stinehour and I chatted alone on that bench. There he reminded me that books are meant to be useful—not merely beautiful. It was that simple...
View ArticleYou Demanded and We Complied
All of the stamps of Axel Bertram are now on our site. See for yourself. The post You Demanded and We Complied appeared first on The Offices of Kat Ran Press.
View ArticleNever Mind the Cossacks
We were terribly pleased to design a little book for Granary Books written by Kat Ran author Bill Corbett (We published him way back in 2012.) and with paintings by certified-genius Rackstraw Downes....
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