Exits + Obstacles is done, albeit in pieces on my drawing table.  I’ve got the assembly down to a science and can get 5 CDs put together in 15 minutes.  I’m going to try to do 100 per week.

Here’s what went  wrong:

  • The covers were printed with the grain running the wrong way.  Book Arts Lesson #1: Paper is not 2-dimensional.  Paper has grain and only folds nicely one way.  But it’s not worth reprinting them.  I knew which way the grain went, and told my printing team once, but forgot to remind them once all the other problems were solved.  Pretty common oversight. lesson learned.
  • A word got cut off the first page of the booklet.  It really upset me at first because I was so excited about being done when I noticed it.  I was going to recycle the whole stack and and go to the printers to get it re-done, but instead I added the hand-made touch and wrote it in!
  • Small typo involving my visual map theme.  You’ll win something weird if you discover it.

Pretty good.  Everything else worked out OK.  Buy it October 1st.