About
The Bleed Edge exists to provide a space for me to write about stuff relating to print and graphic/web design, all of which I do on a daily basis. I work from my home in Athy, Co. Kildare, Ireland. I have an honours degree in Printing Management but I work mostly on web-work.
Most of the prints are hand-screenprinted in my home studio. I will be posting an entry on how to set up a small home studio to screen print in, as it isn't that difficult to get all the pieces of your kit together and print.
About this site
This blog was created in Ruby on Rails. It provided a great project to take from development to production.
Switching from TextWrangler to TextMate between coding version one and two has made a huge difference. Textmate is excellent and I highly recommend it. It's also European (Denmark) which makes it even better! The typeface used for the logo is 'Attic', a font I know nothing about but has been in my system for years. The body text is set in Georgia.
This is the second version of this site, I redesigned and rebuilt it from the ground up in July 2008. I think it's more production worthy than version one.
The Bleed Edge?
The bleed edge is a printing term which isn't used much anymore. It was used to refer to the edge(s) which would be trimmed. Back in the day when registration (position of print on sheet) from sheet to sheet was not as good as it is now, the bleed edge was the edge where you didn't put anything important in case the registration 'wobbled' and the important information was trimmed off one or more prints. I thought the name was apt as I screenprint my prints by hand and registration can be an issue (sometimes!).