The biggest and best revelation of my time at Ooligan Press so far has been how much I love working on book interiors. Covers are kind of the show horse of book design—the public face of a title and the first thing most people see when they look at it—but I think working on interiors […]
Green Press Initiative
Manager Monday: Publishing Just Got a Little Bit Greener (Operations)
By Christopher Thomas (@chris_the_nerd) and Alex Fus (@alexofus)
Book publishing is a notoriously resource-intensive industry, so as publishers we have a responsibility to consider not only how our books impact our readers but also our environment. As the next generation of publishing professionals, we at Ooligan Press literally wrote the book on Rethinking Paper & Ink because we believe in striving for sustainability […]
Ooligan Reaches Out to Local Eco-Friendly Businesses
By Alison Townsend
In 2011, Ooligan Press released Rethinking Paper & Ink: The Sustainable Publishing Revolution. Expanded from a pamphlet of the same name written in 2009 by former Ooligan students Melissa Brumer and Janine Eckhart, the book, which was jointly authored by Ooligan alums Jessicah Carver and Natalie Guidry, sought to increase awareness of sustainable printing practices […]
Green Book Design: Economy of Length for The Wax Bullet War
By Paul Dudley
Last year, Ooligan Press entered the ranks of publishers that are certified by the Green Press Initiative. GPI is a program that rewards publishers for making the environmentally responsible decision to commit to reducing their carbon footprint according to specific benchmarks and to producing books using FSC-certified paper. The certification levels that GPI offers are […]
Paper or Plastic
By Katy Roberts
Books – so innocuous and lovely, such a comforting heft in your hands as you turn the pages. They are not SUVs. Who would suspect them of contributing to the poisoning of our environment? A nifty gadget like a kindle may seem more suspect. But there are a wealth of factors to tease apart. The […]