Musician, artist & designer Bruce Licher founded Independent Project Press after learning the art of letterpress printing at the Women’s Graphic Center in downtown Los Angeles at the beginning of 1982. His initial projects centered around creating album covers, postcards and promotional stamps for his band Savage Republic, though it didn’t take long before he was producing work for other L.A. underground music groups along with a growing number of clients in the Los Angeles design community. Currently located in Bishop, California, he and his artist wife Karen own and operate two Chandler & Price hand-fed platen presses, a Vandercook Power 219 proofing press, and a vintage Rosback pinhole perforator. In addition to packaging and releasing music on his own label Independent Project Records, his other music-related projects have included work for clients ranging from R.E.M. to Harold Budd to Stereolab. Licher was nominated twice for a Grammy Award for his album packaging, and has been credited with starting the trend in letterpress printed CD and record packaging using industrial-style chipboard. His graphic design and letterpress work has been featured in two major design exhibitions at the Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum in New York City, and has also been exhibited in California, Arizona, and Paris, France.
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