Editing The Pen Addict 69/transcript (section)

== Dry Transfer ==


'''Brad Dowdy:''' Cause I've got one, Myke.

'''Bryan Bedell:''' I don't know if you have one, but, um, uh, you know, another one of my favorites dry transfer was one of my favorites for sure too. That was a lot of fun to put together. And I, you know, just looking at them, it's like, it's like your kids. How do you decide which one you hit the most? I know. Oh, um, you know what? I'm not, I'm not a baseball fan at all. So day game. I like, I mean, I like the way they looked and Kevin's book is incredible. I mean, I'm from Pittsburgh and I was, you know, a pirate's man growing up and Clemente is awesome. So I can't say anything. That book is incredible and it was really fun to work on that, but on their own, the notebooks, you know, don't, don't, don't wow me too much.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Um, I actually came around, I agree with you on that one. I wasn't a huge fan of it at first. And then for some reason that, that white red just grabbed it.

'''Bryan Bedell:''' I do like, yeah. I mean, I like foil stamping, so I don't know. And then like, you know, Expedition is awesome, but I don't use those day to day, you know. I mean, that one was fun to do too. Yeah. I don't know. I guess that or look at other ones like Packet of Sunshine outside of the packaging and everything just on their own. The notebooks aren't that amazing, but you know, that was early on. And, you know, that envelope was a cool, you know, that was all together. It was a cool package, but.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' So my, my least favorite one, um, and it's relative, like you're saying, Brian, it's, it's, you know, they're all, they're all awesome. They're all great. They're all terrible. But my least favorite one was, my least favorite was, uh, the balsam fur. I don't know that. I think the color didn't grab me. Um, you know, y'all were sending the balsam, whose idea was to send the balsam fur branches in the, in the envelope. That was a pretty crazy, pretty crazy thing. So yeah.

'''Bryan Bedell:''' Those, yeah, those from the perspective.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' I've never, just never used that addition as much as like I've used all the other ones, I guess.

'''Bryan Bedell:''' From the perspective of like the Christmassy angle, they're not that good, but I always just, I saw those kind of, if you, you know, if you take it away from the packaging again, I see those as looking kind of like army Jeep, you know, you got your army color with like kind of the gloss white and that was the first foil stamp we did. So I like those.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yeah.

'''Bryan Bedell:''' Yeah.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Did you, did you have one Myke that you, that you're not a huge fan of?

'''Myke Hurley:''' Um, yeah, I think that, that I will receive hate mail. I have a specific reason where I really like the look and feel of traveling salesman. Um, the way that the paper is printed doesn't really work for me. Yeah. Just because it's like the ledger. Sure. So like, um, you've then got like the two sort of margins on either side and I don't really do anything that I need to use those for. So then if I'm writing within the margins, I don't really get a lot of space, you know, that's, that's for me. But I mean, cause it's like, you know, I think about expedition edition where I can't, where I wouldn't really use those every day because you kind of need to use the right sort of pen for it, even though I do use a space pen. So maybe I should actually try it out, but I actually really loved those because of the character that they have, like this indestructible paper. I just think that that's really cool. So like, I really liked the way that the traveling salesman look, but in the same way as Brad, they would be the ones that I would be least likely to use because, because of the way the paper is laid out. But I like the way that they look and I like the thinking that goes behind them.

'''Bryan Bedell:''' For me, I think someone mentioned this on the Ask Me Anything. And for me with traveling salesman, I look at those and the inside paper was so much thicker and the outside, you know, all the paper was real thick. And because of the thickness of the book, even though the logo is centered on the paper, because of the curvature of the book, it's like kind of knocked off center. So I look at those and that drives me nuts.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Oh yeah, I did see that. I did see that. Yeah.

'''Bryan Bedell:''' And I've noticed, yeah, I think, you know, some were worse than others, but I think, you know, that's just, that's kind of, that's really, I think the only, you know, kind of production glitch we've had that kind of went through, you know, and it's not like, you know, it's not terrible or anything. Actually, if you look back at some of the early ones that we had, because it's, you know, it's weird. You can center things perfectly. And then once it's printed, depending on the thickness of the paper. So we've had to be real careful about, you know, just adjusting the logo and hoping it's, you know, for the curvature of the paper when we know we're using thicker paper or something. Or, you know, the belly bands, like on America the Beautiful, you know, those America Beautiful ones were so thick we had to actually, I can't remember if we reprinted the belly bands or if we maybe just had to redo them before they went on press or something, but they were just, you know, not lining up right because of the thickness of the paper. So there's usually some glitch there waiting for us.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Well, that's one thing I've noticed is those, if there has been glitches or anything, they never make it out into the wild. Y'all's production process is, even from the beginning, y'all've got it down to a science pretty well. It's an awesome product y'all are putting out. And I know so many people are excited about it and look forward to all the stuff that's coming in the future.

'''Bryan Bedell:''' Yeah, it's great. I mean, it's, like I've said, one of the best things about working here is just having that, you know, do making something, having something you can, you know, put all your work into and then just seeing that box of them come and holding it in your hand is just so rewarding. There's so many people that, you know, just push numbers around or, you know, do jobs that, you know, are important. But just to, for me, you know, that's always what I've liked about being a designer is having like a product I can see and hold and remember.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Well, that's awesome. I think we will leave it at that. That's a great sentiment to end this on. Brian, we really, really appreciate you coming on. And we're going to have to do this again sometime, you know. Sure, yeah. That's my pleasure. There's always something going on in the Field Notes world and we're glad you were able to join us and talk about it a little bit. We really appreciate it. Happy to be here, guys.

'''Bryan Bedell:''' Thanks.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yeah, thanks, buddy. Well, thanks, Brian. And Myke, do you have anything else? No, I think that's about it. All right.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Do you want to tell everyone where you can get the show notes?

'''Myke Hurley:''' Of course. They can go to 5by5.tv slash panaddict slash 69 for the show notes for this week's episode. You can see what Brad does on the internet by going to panaddict.com.

'''Myke Hurley:''' And he's also online. He's at dowdyism, D-O-W-D-Y-I-S-M on Twitter. I am imike, I-M-Y-K-E. And thanks again to Brian and thank you all for listening. And until next time, bye-bye.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Bye.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Bye. Bye.

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