{"id":7709,"date":"2024-07-09T09:03:17","date_gmt":"2024-07-09T14:03:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/studio\/?p=7709"},"modified":"2024-07-09T09:03:18","modified_gmt":"2024-07-09T14:03:18","slug":"rampage-party-press-in-the-works","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/studio\/2024\/07\/09\/rampage-party-press-in-the-works\/","title":{"rendered":"Rampage Party Press \/ in the works!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Hi! My name is Margaret Yapp – I\u2019m currently an MFA candidate at the Center for the book, entering my thesis year. Before starting at UICB, I did an MFA in poetry at the Writers\u2019 Workshop. I have spent the last few years at UICB really focused on learning letterpress printing and figuring out how I might like to fit into the publishing world. I want to publish other peoples\u2019 poetry!\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Eventually, I\u2019d like to work my way up to publishing full length poetry books, but I want to get my feet wet first. First step: build out a magazine. For now, this will look like an online magazine and handprinted broadsides for sale. And I think, probably, physical issues as well, maybe once a year\u2026though I\u2019m still thinking on that.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

My focus for this summer is building up the website and getting started on digitally designing a few broadsides.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Re: summer broadsides – I\u2019ll be digitally type-setting on InDesign and turning the digital files into photopolymer plates that I use on the Vandercooks. I have done this process quite a bit in the past, but will be tweaking my typesetting\/deciding a few things over the summer: do I have a \u201chouse face\u201d? How much uniformity between broadsides? How much crossover between broadside design\/website design? I\u2019d like to finish at least three broadsides by the end of the eight weeks. I have digitally designed two, and have the third figured out! Once I get the third done, then photopolymer plates, then start printing.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

The website is what I\u2019m least confident about. I have a squarespace website for my own work, and I\u2019ve done a little on wix, but that\u2019s the extent of it. I had a good conversation with Alyssa about web presence.We talked about how Rampage Party doesn\u2019t necessarily need a website, we could function on patreon or substack or something like that. After that conversation, however, I spent some time researching platforms and options, and have ultimately decided that I definitely want a regular old website. For a few reasons, including: patreon and substack don\u2019t give me the commerce options I need, I think a website lends the press a little more official-ness.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

I\u2019ve been exploring different website development platforms (because I have no interest in learning to code!) and have decided to go with Cargo. A few things went into this decision:\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

-Since I also need\/manage a website for my personal work, Cargo is definitely the cheapest option for two different domains.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

-Cargo has the commerce options I need.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

-I spoke with quite a few publishers I admire, all of whom have great websites, and almost all of them either use squarespace or cargo. After checking their websites out, I really like the look and feel and freedom that Cargo seems to offer.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

I\u2019ve been poking around on Cargo, watching some help videos, and have started building out a website\u2026 it\u2019s slowgoing but I\u2019m figuring it out!<\/span><\/p>\n

So \u2026 to sum things up. At the end of three weeks, I\u2019ve made some decisions! I\u2019ve started work on the broadsides! I\u2019ve started work on the website! I\u2019m excited to keep working and am appreciative of all of the support so far.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n



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