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Jon Stone and Kirsten Irving hope to spend £1500 of your money on Swedish Munken paper. Lovely, sensuous Swedish Munken... Wait, what is that exactly?
"One of our previous projects, Birdbook, contained a lot of black and white illustrations, and in the first proofs we got the paper was too thin - the images showed through," explains Stone, who together with Irving runs the micro-publisher Sidekick books. "We looked around for a printer that had access to a thicker paper, but one that was still clearly book paper - natural off-white, not glossy. One printer said they could do it but they had to source it from Sweden. We didn't question it." He laughs. "Turns out it's rather luxuriant stuff."
The paper's needed for the duo's second anthology of video game poetry, Coin Opera 2, which has recently headed to Kickstarter. The cost of printing a first-run comes in at £3000; Sidekick aims to crowdsource half of that, and fund the rest internally. There's currently 12 days left on the campaign clock.
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"One of our previous projects, Birdbook, contained a lot of black and white illustrations, and in the first proofs we got the paper was too thin - the images showed through," explains Stone, who together with Irving runs the micro-publisher Sidekick books. "We looked around for a printer that had access to a thicker paper, but one that was still clearly book paper - natural off-white, not glossy. One printer said they could do it but they had to source it from Sweden. We didn't question it." He laughs. "Turns out it's rather luxuriant stuff."
The paper's needed for the duo's second anthology of video game poetry, Coin Opera 2, which has recently headed to Kickstarter. The cost of printing a first-run comes in at £3000; Sidekick aims to crowdsource half of that, and fund the rest internally. There's currently 12 days left on the campaign clock.
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