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Wren Ashgrove
Wren Ashgrove — Writes Sleeve Notes and designs the magazine, including the thing you are reading it on. Nine years setting type for a living before that.

How a riso sleeve gets made

Two inks, a drum that jams, a sixty-copy run, and a printer who will tell you at the outset which of your two colours is going to be wrong.
How a riso sleeve gets made

The Fathom Street sleeve, start to finish

One photograph, taken on the wrong night, and eleven weeks of arguing about how much of it to keep. The designer kept a record of every version and let us print it.
The Fathom Street sleeve, start to finish

In praise of the inner bag

The cheapest component in the package is the one that decides whether the record still plays in twenty years, and almost nobody spends anything on it.
In praise of the inner bag

Type on a twelve-inch

A record sleeve is read at two distances and almost nobody designs for the second one. What happens to a typeface at three feet in a rack.
Type on a twelve-inch