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Green Press Initiative

A Beginner’s Guide to Interior Book Design

By Sophie Aschwanden

June 29, 2016 by OoliganPress Leave a Comment

A Beginner’s Guide to Interior Book Design

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 […]

Filed Under: Publishing Tagged With: book design, book interiors, Green Press Initiative, ooligan press, page layouts, portland state university, publishing, typography

Manager Monday: Publishing Just Got a Little Bit Greener (Operations)

By Christopher Thomas (@chris_the_nerd) and Alex Fus (@alexofus)

February 1, 2016 by OoliganPress Leave a Comment

Manager Monday: Publishing Just Got a Little Bit Greener (Operations)

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 […]

Filed Under: Manager Monday Tagged With: GPI, Green Press Initiative, publisher's assistants, publishing, sustainability

Ooligan Reaches Out to Local Eco-Friendly Businesses

By Alison Townsend

July 29, 2015 by OoliganPress Leave a Comment

Ooligan Reaches Out to Local Eco-Friendly Businesses

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 […]

Filed Under: Inside Ooligan Tagged With: eco-consciousness, enviro-friendly, environmental business, green business, Green Press Initiative, inside ooligan, Macmillan Publishers, OpenBook, Portland, printing practices, publishing, publishing community, Rethinking Paper & Ink, sustainability

Green Book Design: Economy of Length for The Wax Bullet War

By Paul Dudley

December 10, 2013 by OoliganPress Leave a Comment

Green Book Design: Economy of Length for The Wax Bullet War

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 […]

Filed Under: Inside Ooligan Tagged With: artist, Design, green, Green Press Initiative, green-book, ooligan press, Palatino Linotype, Sean Davis, soldier, sustainability, The Wax Bullet War, typography

Paper or Plastic

By Katy Roberts

November 13, 2013 by OoliganPress Leave a Comment

Paper or Plastic

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 […]

Filed Under: Publishing Tagged With: Book Industry Study Group, e-reader, e-waste, environmentalism, Green Press Initiative, iPad, New York Times, ooligan press, publishing

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