Meet the Artist: Kain White Shares his Thoughts on the Celestial Emporium
14. November 2023
Artist Kain White is currently working to produce illustrations for 'Celestial Emporium of Benevolent Knowledge'. Here he talks about how he came to be an artist and shares his ideas on the project.

Why the "Celestial Emporium"?
22. October 2023
The ideas from Borges and Foucalt that inspired a collaboration.

Announcing "Celestial Emporium of Benevolent Knowledge": A Fine Press Edition of Works by Borges and Foucault
22. October 2023
The Harebrained Press announces a collaboration with Ampersand Book Studio in Tucson, Arizona.

The Harebrained Retrospective, Part Seven: Memories of the MMOP Auction
06. June 2023
My experience of the historic Melbourne Museum of Printing Auction

The Harebrained Retrospective, Part Six: Memories of The Melbourne Museum of Printing
06. June 2023
My experience of The Melbourne Museum of Printing in the lead up to its liquidation auction.

The Harebrained Bookbinding Challenge: 23 Books in 30 Days
04. February 2023
This month’s blog is a compilation of my Facebook posts following each stage of my attempt to bind 23 Books in 30 Days.

Kali the Studio Cat
16. October 2022
I’m taking a break from the anguished tales of my printing retrospective to tell you the story behind a little studio shadow-companion of mine.

The Harebrained Retrospective, Part Five: Burning at the Wheel
25. August 2022
Part five of The Harebrained Press' retrospective is about the most personally difficult time I went through on the project, when, over two-thirds of the way through my print run, the whole operation ground to a halt.

The Harebrained Retrospective, Part Four: The Hare and the HipCat
17. June 2022
Part Four of my retrospective is about taking my project from a Melbourne warehouse in the back blocks of West Footscray to a new studio at the top of the Great Dividing Range where I tackled completely new and novel problems. Things like being ‘out of sorts’ and printing in the snow.

The Harebrained Retrospective Part Three: The 200 Hour Pages
28. August 2021
Part Three is about the torture and delight I went through as an amateur printer in May through to August of 2017. It’s about fighting my way through an abyss of ignorance, technical difficulties, fear and fatigue and as I laboured to print page numbers one through to twelve.

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