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The Recorder Magazine
Production Method
Foil stamp
Lithography
Offset
Design
Luke Tonge
Luke Tonge, Art-direction & design
Emma Tucker, Editor, and writer
James Fooks-Bale, Creative direction
Printing
Leycol
Created after business hours as a labor of love, designer Luke Tonge and team re-imagine Monotype’s magazine The Recorder (first printed in 1902) with a new focus on the role typography plays in contemporary culture.
Dimensions (Width × Height × Depth)
9 × 12 in.
Page Count
120
Paper Stock
Mohawk / Superfine / Eggshell / Ultrawhite
Number of Colors
6
Varnishes
–
Binding
Stitched
Typography
Quire Sans
Ysobel
Century Expanded
Typewriter Elite
Plak
Burlingame
Neuzeit
Neue Haas Grotesk
Balega
Iwan Stencil
Project Description
First published in 1902, Monotype's magazine The Recorder has been relaunched with a completely new look, and a new focus: the wider role that typography and type design play in contemporary visual culture. It features a range of bold typographic layouts and illustrations and showcases a variety of Monotype fonts across 4 sections: Features, Essays, Profiles & Opinions. It was created by a team of 2 people, outside of work hours.Type of course engages us all daily on many levels, yet is also a complex and nuanced subject, so the aim was to draw people in with a very accessible style and format, and then keep them engaged through original high quality and varied content.
Production Lesson(s)
The cover has a huge gold foil masthead which wraps around to the back cover providing opportunity for tessellation and huge shelf presence. We decided to foil the Monotype 'M' icon which sits at the base of the spine, and this proved tricky to produce well. We also had some teething problems with the throw-out pages, getting the right tolerances and trims.The spot green we used was particularly successful, so we'll be repeating vibrant spot colours in future issues, as well as interesting finishes to the masthead, and throw-out pages to provide intrigue and extra width for relevant articles.
Post Author
Kelly Cree
Writer for UnderConsideration LLC.
More: Online / On Twitter
Date Published
February 23, 2015
Filed Under
Foil stamp
Lithography
Magazines
Offset
Tagged with
mohawk superfine
monotype
spot ink
typography
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FPO is run with Six Apart’s MovableType
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