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BROWSE
Client
Family
Quantity Produced
5
Production Cost
About 5 Bucks
Production Time
An Afternoon
Dimensions (Width × Height × Depth)
5.5 in × 3.5 in
Page Count
8
Paper Stock
Red River, 2-Sided Matte, 50 lb
Number of Colors
CMYK
Austin, Texas citizen Karl Hébert has been living with his wife in France for a while and, well, they miss their families and their families miss them. So he did what everyone living abroad does: Fired up his Epson and put together an 8-page, saddle-stitched booklet, all from the comfort of France. The booklet includes “A message to the fam letting them know everything is A-OK, a chart showing the things we miss the most in order of less missed to most missed, and a cute little poem my wife wrote about Big Texas thunderstorms.”
While we regularly feature larger print runs here on FPO we are not beyond celebrating the home-made, especially if it gives anyone here some ideas of their own. Plus, in my experience, saddle-stitching by hand is far more challenging than putting it through a bindery machine, and it looks like Karl is pretty good at nailing that staple right through the middle. And you have to love the rough silkscreen effect on the illustrations.
Everything is Swell Booklet
Production Method
Design
Karl Hebert, Goldlunchbox
Printing
Karl Hebert, Goldlunchbox
This post was published in the original layout of FPO so all images are smaller. Project descriptions as well as production lessons are quoted in the main content area.
Post Author
Armin
Armin Vit
Editor of FPO and co-founder of UnderConsideration LLC.
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Date Published
March 24, 2010
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Booklet
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