The Art Publishers Blog.

 When all else fails, resort to definitions.

“Blog”: certainly a noun but alas my dictionary is not of a sufficiently modern vintage to include this term but since you are reading this online then a definition is probably superfluous. (I was tempted to start with the “Stardate” and then ramble on but I’m not a Captain and that would be a log, albeit an electronic version).

 “Publisher”: “A person or company engaged in publishing printed material”.  Well that’s a bit poor, a definition that contains more or less the same word as an explanation.  Lets try “publish” then.

 ”Publish”: “To prepare and issue (printed material) for public distribution or sale.”
That seems fair enough but generally “publish” sounds to most folks like “book” so it needs the qualifier “art”.  Now “art” is something that is going to have multifarious definitions so lets just get a simple one.

 “Art”: “The conscious production or arrangement of sounds, colours, forms, words, movements or other elements in a manner that affects the sense of beauty: especially, the production of the beautiful in a graphic or plastic medium, for example, painting and sculpture.”   Looks like we are restricted to colour then. (The capital “A” in Art is, by the way, not implying anything other than it’s conventional to start with a capital.  Whether there is a difference between “Art” and “art” is an ages old argument which we might get into later but not now).  Perhaps I should just say we print pictures.

 When taken all together it just defines what I do in the context of work so you might reasonably expect that sensibly related topics will crop up here.  I do have other interests however, so it is likely to take off in other directions as the whim takes me.

But we will start sensibly with the next few posts by looking at the process of reproduction (as in generating prints rather than offspring).

 Stewart