I wanted to share some important news with you all regarding the future of the project.

In early June 2012, Radix Media will be relocating…to Brooklyn, New York!

It’s a huge move, and as stressful as it is figuring out all of the logistics, it’s also very exciting for me. Both my partner and I are from the east coast originally, and we long to be back there, closer to our families and within reach of many bustling Northeastern cities.   But this is not the end of Radix!  I’ve already got a place to move my shop into, and although I’ll need to get new equipment all over again, I hope that this will allow me to upgrade to a nicer press and purchase particular pieces of bindery equipment that will allow me to diversify the type of projects Radix can print and publish.

If you were planning on printing your next project through Radix – now is the perfect time!  It will be quite a feat to move across the country and start from scratch.  Your business will help me get established in my new home.  Radix will be fully operational in Portland until May 10, 2012.  If you have any information on offset printing equipment, bindery equipment, people to connect with on the east coast, please e-mail me at info@radixmedia.org.  I’m also looking for low-interest loans from my community, in order to help Radix begin anew.  If you have money to loan (or donate!), please get in touch!

It’s quite possible that I’ll be selling my current equipment to someone in the community who will continue offering these services, under a different name.  I’ll be sure to keep everyone posted about that.

I feel extremely grateful that I’ve gotten to work with all of the great people that I’ve worked with in Portland and can’t wait to hook up with people in New York City for your short-run printing needs!

In solidarity,

Lantz Arroyo

Radix Media

Check out the photos below, and if you’d like to order them, you can find them in our Etsy store!  These are also available for wholesale purchase by distros, infoshops and bookstores.  Get in touch with us for wholesale pricing!

We’ve also added a zine pack, a 25-pack of postcards, and a few General Strike posters we dug up from the Wisconsin debacle awhile ago.  Check out our Etsy store and let us know what you think!

Also, the Radical Printer Poster Series is now available through the webstore of the Justseeds Artists’ Cooperative!  The posters are sold as a complete set for $15.  The Justseeds store is a great place to do your holiday shopping – there’s plenty of amazing art to get for the ones you love!

For more context on the project, and to read my (Lantz’s) personally journey of becoming a radical printer, check out this blog post I wrote up for the Justseeds blog.

We’re very excited for these new developments!  Keep your eyes peeled to this website, as there’s always more coming soon.

Check out this newest print from Radix Media, an 8×10 mini-poster!  Metallic silver ink beautifully printed (if we do say so ourselves!) on smooth black 80lb cardstock and “red pepper” linen 80lb cardstock.  It’s currently available for sale for only $2 plus shipping from our Etsy store.  We hope you like it!

Adolph Fischer

Fredy Perlman

Joseph Ishill

Lucio Urtubia

Ross Winn

Unfortunately, they haven’t been filled with much printing.

The printing press we do all of our work on, an AB Dick 9850, is currently down and as of this writing has been down for several weeks as we wait for a crucial part to arrive in the mail.  This has affected the completion of our Kickstarter rewards that our wonderful backers have patiently waited for since December.  It has also put an indefinite hold on future projects, the list of which gets longer and longer by the day.  And of course, we haven’t felt too good about building relationships within our community and soliciting work, when we’re not sure if the press will even be running on a given day.

August 12, 2011 marked the one year anniversary of Radix Media’s official operation.  On that day in 2010, we began reprinting issue number one of When Language Runs Dry, a zine for people with chronic pain / illness and their allies.  Though that was the beginning, it was by no means the end.  Since then we’ve printed hundreds of copies of other zines, as well as hundred of flyers, business cards, postcards, and record inserts.  We’ve published three titles, one of which was a co-publishing effort with our friends at Eberhardt Press, a shop that inspires us and keeps us moving forward.  We’ve built the beginnings of potentially long term friendships with other incredible shops, including Stumptown Printers and Red Sun Press.  Over the past year, we’ve learned a lot, we’ve grown as designers and printers and have clarified in our minds the future of Radix Media, both as a radical print shop and a publishing operation for typically marginalized people.  The thing we need now, is equipment.

Our Kickstarter campaign was successful, which was a wonderful and pleasant surprise.  You’d be surprised how fast that money goes, though.  One upgraded two-color press that breaks every other day, one bookletmaker that now sort of staples things all by itself (watch those hands!), and one terrifying guillotine paper cutter from 1905 later, we’ve realized that we need to take the next step to equipment that will be more reliable and ensure the highest quality possible for our clients and our own published works.

So we’re asking our community for support!

If you have the means, please consider investing in Radix Media with a personal loan.  Even small loans of $300+ are helpful.  We are happy to pay reasonable interest rates on small personal loans and we are willing to negotiate terms that suit your needs.  Our business plan is currently nearing completion – once it’s finished, we will be more than willing to show it to potential lenders.

And if you don’t have the means to loan money but you need your business cards, stationery, band posters, zine or whatever else printed, please consider choosing Radix Media.  We are vegan owned and operated, and firmly placed in Portland’s radical community.  We are actively struggling for a world free of oppression and exploitation and love the printed word so dearly, that we will go to our graves with ink in our veins.  Though the Internet has given the world of printing and publishing quite a scare, we are confident that it will persevere.

Please send an e-mail to info@radixmedia.org if you would like to discuss making a loan.

Thank you, friends.  We appreciate your support!

For revolution,

Radix Media

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To keep things more organized, we now have separate e-mails set up for general inquiries, print jobs and ordering.  This will also enable us to receive larger file attachments without utilizing third-party websites.  Please head over to our Contact page to check it out and don’t forget to update your address books!  We will still be checking our Riseup.net address daily, so don’t worry if you forget.  We’ll remind you!

For revolution,

Radix Media