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Songlines is an online journal or blog that I started in March 2005 when my wife and I discovered she was pregnant. Abe was born in October, but I continue to maintain the journal. The blog includes my stories and essays and Kristin’s artwork and other images from the pregnancy and Abe’s early days. Family and friends visit often to stay connected to newest of the tribe. For Christams this year K and I decided to collect the writing I did for the blog and her artwork into a book for those closest to us.

I laid the book out in Adobe InDesign, easily the coolest software ever. I printed all twelve copies at home on an Epson Photo R1800. This machine does magnificent inkjet prints at up 13″ by 19″ (or more with rolled paper.) The pages were printed on tabloid paper (11″ x 17″), cropped at Kinko’s by an inept young man, creased with a bone folder and stapled together, magazine style. The finished book is 8.5 inches by 8.5 inches.

Here are a couple of page spreads from the Songlines book. The images below link to more legible, larger versions.

This entry was posted on Monday, January 2nd, 2006 at 10:22 pm and is filed under design.