Colophon

Lumen Press is two people, one studio and rather more presses than the room was designed for. We print short runs and keep the process slow on purpose. This page records how the work is made, mostly so we remember it ourselves.

The work

Risograph

A two-drum machine, mostly federal blue and a warm amber we mix in house.

Letterpress

A tabletop platen for cards and covers; polymer plates, occasionally metal type.

Paper

Uncoated stocks, 100–240 gsm, chosen for how they take ink rather than how they look in a sample book.

Binding

Saddle and pamphlet stitch by hand; section-sewn for anything that needs to open flat.

What we print

Identity for small makers, editorial work in short runs, and our own Lumen Atlas — the journal that gives the imprint its reason to exist. The chart reproductions in the Atlas are pulled here, one colour at a time.

Type & mark

The lighthouse mark is set above everything we make. It is the same mark the Atlas uses, because the Atlas and the Press are the same people doing two halves of one job: reading the coast, then printing what we found.

Enquiries

Commissions, stockist and studio-visit requests: studio@harbor-lumen.com. We reply slowly and honestly.