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N’Compleat Workes designs, produces, and distributes fine art catalogs and exhibition media under our imprint – Running Man Press – for artists, galleries, and museums.
Zen and the Art of Enlightenment Exhibition
Curator’s Catalog VOL I
Product Description
Trim Size: 8.500″ x 11.000″
Color Cover and Interior
Paperback Binding: Perfect Bound
Gloss Cover Finish
300 Page Count
Print ISBN: 978-0-9988949-9-7
Spine Width: 0.77920 in (19.79 mm)
Carton Qty: 10
Weight: 2.137 lb (969.33 g)
Prepress Cost: $50.00 per page or $50/hour (whichever is less). Includes free prepress prototype.
Print cost: $36.65 each, plus shipping.
Zen and the Art of Enlightenment Exhibition
Curator’s Catalog VOL II
Product Description
Trim Size: 8.500″ x 11.000″
Color Cover with Color Interior
Paperback Binding: Perfect Bound
Gloss Cover Finish
298 Page Count
Print ISBN: 979-8-9920123-1-6
Spine Width: 0.77400 in (19.66 mm)
Carton Qty: 10
Weight: 2.123 lb (962.98 g)
Prepress Cost: $50.00 per page or $50/hour (whichever is less). Includes free prepress prototype.
Print cost: $36.45 each, plus shipping.
The Book of Christmas Wishes
Artist Story Book
Product Description
Trim Size: 8.500″ x 11.000″
B&W Cover with B&W Interior
Paperback Binding: Perfect Bound
Gloss Cover Finish
200 Page Count
Print ISBN: 979-8-9920123-2-3
Spine Width: 0.42380 in (10.76 mm)
Carton Qty: 20
Weight: 1.053 lb (477.63 g)
Prepress Cost: $50.00 per page or $50/hour (whichever is less). Includes free prepress prototype.
Print cost: $9.02 each, plus shipping.
Camblin Retrospective 1956 – 1993
Exhibition Catalog
Product Description
Trim Size: 8.500″ x 11.000″
Color Cover with B&W Interior
Paperback Binding: Perfect Bound
Gloss Cover Finish
92 Page Count
Print ISBN: 979-8-9920123-4-7
Spine Width: 0.19050 in (4.84 mm)
Carton Qty: 44
Weight: .520 lb (235.87 g)
Prepress Cost: $50.00 per page or $50/hour (whichever is less). Includes free prepress prototype.
Print cost: $6.77 each, plus shipping.
It’s All Art
Show Catalog
Product Description
Trim Size: 8.500″ x 11.000″
Color Cover with B&W Interior
Paperback Binding: Perfect Bound
Gloss Cover Finish
712 Page Count
Print ISBN: 979-8-9920123-3-0
Spine Width: 1.42380 in (436.16 mm)
Carton Qty: 5
Weight: 3.577 lb (1622.5 g)
Prepress Cost: $50.00 per page or $50/hour (whichever is less). Includes free prepress prototype.
Print cost: $19.67 each, plus shipping.
What’s included in our catalogs?
Writing and Editing and Video Production
In our collaborative exploration of your artwork, we use a writing skillset tailored to art analysis and interpretation. We usually include detailed art critiques, dissecting formal elements like composition, color, line, and texture, while also delving into stylistic influences and thematic content. We’ll craft ekphrastic responses that aim to translate the visual and emotional essence of each of your pieces into evocative prose, capturing their unique atmospheres and narrative suggestions.
A key aspect will be the contextual integration of biographical details, historical events, and philosophical underpinnings you provide us. We take these documents and weave them into an analysis that offers richer, more nuanced interpretations. Throughout, we aim for clarity, precision, and an adaptable tone suited to both analytical and more reflective writing styles. As we move through your body of work, we synthesize information across these multiple artworks to identify recurring motifs and trace the evolution of your artistic concerns, culminating in longer-form pieces that will be used in our Deep Dive video analysis.
Check out our Deep Dive for the exhibition catalog “Camblin Retrospective 1956 – 1993”:
Writing, video production and deep dive analysis by N’Compleat Workes
Prepress by Running Man Press
Printing by Ingram Sparks
Outside the Book
Book Cover Options
Paperback is our least expensive option is a full-color laminated cover with perfect-bound binding. All the catalogs above use this as it is the most economical option,
Hardcovers are available with or without dust jackets.
Book Textures
Matte Covers offer a soft feel, with no glare and a polished look.
The Gloss Cover is a high shine with a smooth finish. All the above catalogs are gloss covers. I just like the finish
The Digital Cloth™ Cover has a subtle, cloth-like look and is available with or without dust jacket. (Textured feel available for hardcover books printed in the U.S. and U.K. only.)
Book Binding
Perfect Bound indicates that pages and paper cover are glued together at spine. All the above catalogs are done this way. It’s the least expensive way to go.
In Case Laminate the ages glued to a hardcover at the ends.
In a Jacketed Case Laminate pages are glued to the hardcover at ends with the option to design what prints on the cover beneath the jacket.
Inside the Book
Ink Qualities
Black-and-White Printing is the most economical, printed on 50 lb / 74 gsm paper in crème or white. The Camblin Retrospective, It’s All Art, and Xmas Wishes were printed this way.
Standard Color Printing is the standard color quality, printed on 50 lb / 74 gsm or 70 lb / 104 gsm white paper.
Premium Color Printing is the highest color quality with more vivid color, printed on 70 lb / 104 gsm white paper. The Zen and the Art catalogs were printed using these inks.
Paper Color and Weights
Groundwood 38 lb / 56 gsm – Available in black-and-white printing and select, small-format trim sizes in the U.S. and U.K.
Crème 50 lb / 74 gsm – Available in black-and-white printing.
White 50 lb / 74 gsm – Available in black-and-white printing and standard color printing. The Camblin Retrospective, It’s All Art, and Xmas Wishes were printed using these weights.
White 70 lb / 104 gsm – Available in standard and premium color printing options. The Zen and the Art catalogs were printed using these weights.
Get started today on your next show catalog.
N’Compleat Workes
Frazier Park, CA 93225
briancamblin (@) gmail.com