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Beeing on press at Oddi Printing |
One of our customers and good friend Gil Shuler of Gil Shuler Graphic Design blogged about beeing on press for “Cool Inside – Hank´s Seafood Restaurant” book. The blog can be seen here:
http://www.gilshulergraphicdesign.com/
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“TIME’s Best of 2011: The Photobooks We Loved” list |
 It was very nice for us at Oddi Printing to see one of the many titles printed for our US clients on the list of Time´s magazines most interesting books of 2011 – or as they describe it
“…. spotlights some of the best photobooks of the year as chosen by a group of photographers and photography experts from around around the world…. and of course a few from the photo editors of TIME. From the selection one can see the art of the photobook continues to flourish in all genres from reportage to fine art photography, fashion and everything in between.”
The book is The Amnesia Pavillions by Nicholas Muellner and is chosen on the list by Jason Fulford photographer and publisher of J&L Books.
The list can be seen here: http://lightbox.time.com/2011/12/29/the-photo-books-we-loved-in-2011-2/#43
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Oddi prints BOMB Magazine |
 Oddi Printing has delivered the second issue we print of Bomb Magazine - issue nr 118. It´s been a great pleasure for us to add Bomb Magazine (www.bombsite.com) to the growing number of high quality magazines we print for the US market. Bomb is a quarterly that for 31 years has been publishing conversations between artists, writers, actors, directors, musicians, and architects. Launched because its early editors-all practicing artists and writers-saw a disparity between how their work was being discussed by critics and how they discussed it among themselves, BOMB interviews focus on the creative process and the ideas artists generate through dialogue.
Bomb is printed on UPM Finesse paper with the literary section First Proof printed on Cyclus Offset - all in 4 color. Cover stock for the last two issues has been 200 gr Munken Polar and the magazine is now perfect bound. As well as printing and binding Oddi Printing has handled drop shipping to distributors all over the US and Canada as well as bulk shipments to a mailing house.
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Oddi Printing and www.kickstarter.com |
 We at Oddi Printing just love Kickstarter and have been watching closely the tremendous number of interesting projects beeing developed and presented. And beeing a high quality printer we are of course especially interested in the writing and publishing section. Much to our delight a number of successfully funded www.kickstarter.com book projects have been printed by Oddi Printing. And just to name a few:
The Manual – www.alwaysreadthemanual.com
MAX100 - http://max100project.com
Pie in the Park - http://twitter.com/#!/pieinthepark
Coming and Crying – http://comingandcrying.com/
Here in Red Hook - http://www.hereinredhook.blogspot.com
The Wild - http://thewildmagazine.com/
Axeman - http:///www.howardsaunders.org_site/cover.html
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The Jewlery and Metalwork of Marie Zimmermann |
 Oddi Printing recently delivered a book jointly published by American Decorative Art 1900 Foundation and Yale University Press about the life and art of Marie Zimmerman. The book gathers for the first time the story of Zimmermann's life and work and puts a spotlight on one of the most singular makers of metalwork active in early-20th-century America. Essays by leading scholars in the decorative arts offer extensive new research on Zimmermann and her work, while more than 500 gorgeous full-color images show the breadth and novelty of her design practice.
As so many of the books printed by Oddi Printing the biggest challenge in the printing of this book was to achieve a quality of four color printing that would correctly depict the beautiful art; the jewlery and metalwork. By going four rounds of proofs and with close co-operation between Oddi´s pre-press department and the publisher the final results is a book with stunning photographs. We at Oddi Printing are proud to have been a part of making this stunning book.
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 Oddi Printing is now busy reprinting the first issue of a beautiful new journal called The Manual. First printing sold out very fast and the publisher is eagerly waiting for our capable press operators and book binders to finish the second printing. Preparations for the second issue are under way and all of us at Oddi Printing are very proud to be a part of this exciting new publishing venture. More information can be found here www.alwaysreadthemanual.com
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 It´s not every day that we at Oddi Printing get to see firsthand when your clients get their first copy of their book so we were very excited to see this video. Joe from www.hitrecord.org made a video of himself opening a package from Oddi with the RECollection book inside. This is the second book we print for HitRECord, the collaboration website.
The first one called Tiny Book of Tiny Stories is already in it´s 3rd printing and we are very proud to be a part of both of these projects.
Joe´s video can be seen here.
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Destroy All Monsters Magazine |
 This publication is a compilation of the seven issues of Destroy All Monsters Magazine that were originally published between 1976-1979. Destroy All Monsters Magazine contained artwork, photographs, and flyers from Mike Kelley, Cary Loren, Niagara and Jim Shaw. Printed using any papers and techniques available to the band at the time. The issues combine the cut and paste tactics of punk zines with a psychedelic affinity for color. This reproduction is printed on a large number of colored paper as well as coated and uncoated paper stock that are distributed all over the book. The color stock is a Colorit paper, the coated stock is UPM Finesse and the uncoated stock is Munken Print White. Each copy also had an incert with unique artwork. Published by Primary Information
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The Great Upheaval was printed for the Guggenheim Museum in New York |
 The Great Upheaval was printed for the Guggenheim Museum in New York and delivered last January. The book is fully illustrated with 150 color images and smythe sewn with an open spine binding. It is accompanying the main show of the Guggenheim Museum February 4th - June 1st.
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Umbrage Editions prints with Oddi Printing |
Since last fall we at Oddi Printing are proud to have printed some of the fascinating titles published by Umbrage Editions in New York
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Paul McDonough: New York Photographs 1968-1978. Essay by Susan Kismaric,
Museum of Modern Art. Interview by Albert Mobilio.
Gritty sweet-sexy
images from a master of the improvisational theater of street
photography. Reveals the intimacy in actions and relationships found in
the crowded streets of urbania with a high-octane, spontaneous
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Tent Life Haiti – photographs by Wyatt Gallery. Essay by Edwidge Danticat.
Gallery visited Haiti after the devastating earthquake with other
artists from New York City, who volunteered their talents to bring
smiles to Haitians while photographing their heartbreaking story. A
powerful essay by the leading Haitian novelist Danticat. With 100%
royalties benefitting the NGOS: JP/HRO, Healing Haiti, and Global
Syndicate/Cine Institut. |
The Pearl. Illustrations by Alexandra Young.
A true Cinderella story, set in eighteenth-century Russia, about the love affair between Nicolas Cheremeteff, a fabulously wealthy courtier, and Praskovia, a serf girl with a quick mind, a miraculous voice, and a kind heart. Her rise to glory, singing for the Empress Catherine the Great and all the court, led The Pearl to become one of the best-loved folk figures in Russia—remembered to this day.
For more of upcoming books from Umbrage Editions, some of which are already beeing printed at Oddi Printing in Iceland [click here]
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Oddi Printing and McSweeney’s |
 Recently Chronicle Books published a book called Art of McSweeney’s celebrating as described “the 11th or 12th anniversary” of the independent publisher, showcasing their award winning art and book design across all their activities.
Oddi Printing is particularly proud to have been a part of McSweeney’s history being the printer which printed many of the McSweeeney’s Quarterly issues to date. In the book Dave Eggers tells the story about how coincidence led him to a printer based in Reykjavik, Iceland in which illusion and lack there of play’s a very interesting role.
The book offers insight into McSweeneys creative process and tells vividly how Oddi Printing often played an important role in design decisions based on materials and processes in printing and binding. The narratives of practical solutions, to often very demanding designs, offer book designers, publishers, authors and book enthusiasts thought provoking ideas where design and production comes together to make very interesting and unusual books.
How Oddi Printing and McSweeney’s have collaborated on design and production is something of an example on how it’s possible to do extraordinary things where content, design and production come together in a great way, of course to the greatest advantage of the reader.
Oddi Printing has offices in New York and Pennsylvania and samples of McSweeney’s books as well as other interesting printing and binding work can be found under "Portfolio"
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Print Industry of America 2010 Merit |
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Two books produced by Oddi have been awarded the 2010 Certificate of Merit in the Art book Category by the Print Industry of America.
The titles are:
Show
a photographic book with images by Henry Horenstein published by Pond
Press and designed by Carrie Hunt and Pace Kaminsky of HK Creative
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Terence Koh an art book published by Vito Schnabel and designed by Pandiscio, New York.
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Details about the books can be found under "Portfolio".
We at Oddi Printing are of course very proud and thankful for the achievement.
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Icelandic green printing company opens in New York |
 Icelandic printing company Oddi has opened up a new office in New York in order to cope with the demand for its green, eco-friendly printing across the East Coast of the U.S.
Oddi Printing has been serving its clients in the U.S. for around 20 years from its office in Pennsylvania, but due to the increasing demand for its quality services and its awareness of environmental issues, Oddi has opened up a second office located in New York with the intention of serving clients across the US and the East Coast.
Heading the New York office is Marteinn Jonasson, a long time veteran of the publishing and printing industry in Iceland.
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Oddi Printing certified with the Nordic Ecolabel |
 At the beginning of the year Icelands Environmental Minister handed Mr. Jon Omar Erlingsson, Oddi Printing CEO the certification from the Nordic Ecolabel at the printing plant in Reykjavik. It was a festive occation marking the end of a 12 month process in which Oddi´s employees and managers mapped out all the different environmental practices already in place at the plant as well as upgrading others.
Beeing gentle to the environment is however not a new thing for Oddi Printing as it´s been an ongoing process for decades and the plant has been awarded number of awards for it´s sound environmental practices. To name just a few the plant was awarded Reykjavik Environmental award in 1997 and the Ministry of the Environment Award in 2004.
For Oddi Printing´s customer knowing that the printing plant is certified by the Nordic Ecolabel is very important as they now know that there are few, if any printing plants operating on this level of environmental consciousness. Pending the customers wishes the Nordic Ecolabel logo - the Swan - can now be placed on all books, catalogues, magazines and other printed material from Oddi Printing´s plant in Reykjavik, Iceland.
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