Month: March 2010

I’d Like To Keep Doing Interviews

Posted by – 03/31/2010

For The Kitchen & The Garden Patch

I’ve really been enjoying it.

If you, or someone you know, would be a good candidate, email helloATmelissabergenDOTcom

Please and Thank you.

And being vegan is not a requirement.

(See past interviews:

Brian Burke, Mastermind Behind the Cheese Crouton

My Boy, Vegan to Impress the Ladies

Grandma, Born and Raised in Beautiful Rural Vermont

Jerome, World-Traveling Veteran

Isabel, Mexican Cuisine Aficionado

Michelle, Culinary Prowess )

Still thinking about type

Posted by – 03/30/2010

There’s a lot of really beautiful typefaces on Font Shop that have a very subtle distressing to them, to make the type look like it was printed the old-fashioned way. I want to use one of these in The Kitchen and The Garden Patch.

Inspired by William Morris, the designer/artist best known for his work in the Arts and Crafts movement, this typeface (P22 Morris Golden) is one of my top choices for now.

I’m also still leaning towards using Metallophile SP8 (see it here).

And this I believe:

Posted by – 03/29/2010

that the free, exploring mind of the individual human
is the most valuable thing in the world. And this I would fight for: the
freedom of the mind to take
any direction it wishes,
undirected.

Digital vs. Offset Printing?

Posted by – 03/24/2010

For The Kitchen & The Garden Patch, I am trying to decide between digital or offset printing.

I’m going to have a cream or natural colored paper to make the book have a nice, vintage feel to it.

BUT I’m wondering if offset, although more expensive, will make a difference in that feeling I’m trying to give the book.

OR will it be enough to print it digitally and use a font like Metallophile SP8? (below)

Any thoughts?

Amber’s Site is up!

Posted by – 03/24/2010

Go ahead, click around: