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Factory Design Labs Portfolio Book Volume 10
Production Method
Offset
Design
Factory Design Labs
CCO: Blake Ebel
Chairman: Jonas Tempel
Design Director: Amy Kitt
Photographers: Brian Mark, Ryan Policky
Printing
Cenveo / Andersen Lithographic
Everything about this piece is super slick, from the client work within to the spot gloss varnish to the puffy white case holding the book. Factory gives orange real sex a-peel.
Dimensions (Width × Height × Depth)
9.5 in × 13.0 in × .675 in
Page Count
180
Paper Stock
McCoy 100# text
Number of Colors
7 (CMYK + custom pms + pms metallic + pms)
Varnishes
Over all dull aqueous + spot gloss UV
Binding
Smythe-sewn
Typography
DIN Pro Family
Project Description
Factory Design Labs creates a printed portfolio piece annually — this being the 10th volume we wanted to create something a little bit fancier then we'd done in the past — previous versions have been self-cover perfect bound editions. So, this time around we went hard-bound and upped the page count significantly. We wanted the piece to give people a glimpse into the brands we work with, and what working here is like. The case was created as a wrapping of sorts that would protect the book during mailing, and hopefully people would reuse it as either a laptop case or carrier of other goods.Production Lesson(s)
We created a custom fluorescent ink for this piece — and we learned that that's harder than it sounds. Getting the perfect blend of our 'brand orange' orange, with the bright pop of a fluorescent turned out to require more ink wells in the printer than we had available — in the end, the color was not as bright as originally planned, but fits perfectly with all the rest of our materials, so in actuality it was a happy accident that it wasn't as bright as we originally wanted, because then matching the orange zipper color on the case to the fluorescent would have proven impossible.
Post Author
Jessica Mullen
Writer for UnderConsideration LLC.
More: Online / On Twitter
Date Published
April 18, 2012
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FPO (For Print Only), is a division of UnderConsideration, celebrating the reality that print is not dead by showcasing the most compelling printed projects.
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FPO is run with Six Apart’s MovableType
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UnderConsideration is a graphic design firm generating its own projects, initiatives, and content while taking on limited client work. Run by Bryony Gomez-Palacio and Armin Vit in Bloomington, IN. More…
blogs we publish
Brand New / Displaying opinions and focusing solely on corporate and brand identity work.
Art of the Menu / Cataloguing the underrated creativity of menus from around the world.
Quipsologies / Chronicling the most curious, creative, and notable projects, stories, and events of the graphic design industry on a daily basis.
products we sell
Flaunt: Designing effective, compelling and memorable portfolios of creative work.
Brand New Conference videos / Individual, downloadable videos of every presentation since 2010.
Prints / A variety of posters, the majority from our AIforGA series.
Other / Various one-off products.
events we organize
Brand New Conference / A two-day event on corporate and brand identity with some of today's most active and influential practitioners from around the world.
Brand Nieuwe Conference / Ditto but in Amsterdam.
Austin Initiative for Graphic Awesomeness / A speaker series in Austin, TX, featuring some of the graphic design industry's most awesome people.
also
Favorite Things we've Made / In our capacity as graphic designers.
Projects we've Concluded / Long- and short-lived efforts.
UCllc News / Updates on what's going at the corporate level of UnderConsideration.
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