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Slanted Magazine #24: Istanbul

Production Method

The 24th edition of Slanted Magazine explores 15 design studios in Istanbul, Turkey: the city where East and West collide. Contemporary fine art, illustrations and photography complement Slanted’s 288-page deep dive into Istanbul’s cross-cultural design scene, which is “changing the face and image of the city”. — Kelly Cree

Client

Self-promotion

Quantity Produced

5,500

Production Cost

–

Production Time

6 months

Dimensions (Width × Height × Depth)

6.3 × 9.5 × 0.8 in.

Page Count

288

Paper Stock

Römerturm Wild / 300 g/sm
Igepa Maxi Offset / 120 g/sm
Antalis Cyclus Offset / 90 g/sm

Number of Colors

CMYK + 3 spot colors

Varnishes

–

Binding

Lay-Flat-Binding

Typography

Suisse Int'l, Swiss Typefaces
Duru Sans, Sorkin Type
Atatype, Beta tba
Kabuk, Beta tba

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Project Description

Istanbul—the city on the Bosphorus—is famous for its countless minarets, magnificent palaces, colorful markets and traders, seagulls and stray cats. Istanbul is the only metropolis in the world that unites two continents. Traditional crafts collide with a young and blossoming art and design scene, which is slowly changing the face and image of the city.

Slanted takes a close-up look at contemporary design work and all the tumultuous developments in this cultural melting pot city balanced between the Orient and the Occident. On their one-week-trip the Slanted team met 15 design studios and produced comprehensive studio portraits which provide a vivid and up-to-the-minute picture of the scene.

The resulting video interviews have been enriched with video material from the Shutterstock collection. Thanks to Augmented Reality and the Junaio app, readers can easily watch embedded videos of the Istanbul turu on mobile devices.

The issue is thematically complemented by illustrations, photography and fine art from contemporary culture.

The cover is dedicated to Metin Edremit, the designer of the original "Istanbul symbol" whose design won first place in a competition 1969. The "logo" symbolizes many things, such as the seven hills upon which Istanbul was built and the city skyline. With small, formal changes, it now graces the 2-color printed letterpress-cover.

Production Lesson(s)

Lay-flat binding is not so easy. It didn't stick the first run, so we had to bind it again.

Post Author

Kelly Cree

Writer for UnderConsideration LLC.

More: Online / On Twitter

Date Published

December 18, 2014

Filed Under

Letterpress
Magazines
Offset

Tagged with

gold
lay-flat

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