On Friday, July 30th, the Burdge office will be closed for moving.  We will resume business as usual from our new location Monday morning, August 2nd.  Our email addresses will remain the same and our phone numbers will be re-directed, but our new address will be:

One of our Kluge foil presses on the move

Burdge / Cooper

1565 East 23rd Street

Los Angeles,  CA  90011

Phone: 213-747-7141

Fax: 213-747-3035

As anyone who has ever moved knows, moving is not an easy thing to do.  Moving away from home for the first time, into your first apartment, then again and again.  We tend to accumulate stuff to fill the space we have.  As you can imagine, moving a business is not easy to do either.  The trick is to keep the business running uninterrupted while you move from one location to the next.  It may be a little like what a surgeon is doing when he’s performing an operation while keeping his patient alive.  We both want a speedy recovery.

I’ve moved my business once before.  Twenty years ago Arlen Alfson and I choreographed our move from downtown LA to the City of Commerce in order to have the space needed for our thriving business.  At that time we moved into a vacant space, this time we are moving into an operating printing plant so it’s much easier to keep the presses running while we move.

We also don’t have to be out of our building right away.  We can move as soon as each department is ready to move and we only have to take with us what we need to begin operating on August 2nd.  Last week we started moving our letterpress, foil stamping, and engraving presses.  The offset presses, pre-press equipment, and the office are scheduled to move on July 28, 29, and 30th respectively.

Dave Overgaard has done a remarkable job of coordinating which presses will be kept in LA, which ones will move to Atlanta, and what equipment we won’t need and should sell.  At the end of the day we will have the capacity to produce the same type of work, at the same level of quality, from either our Los Angeles or Atlanta printing plants.  After the dust settles we’ll soon be able to publish a final equipment list to see what’s where.

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