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DEAR Vol 1: Lost & Found
Production Method
Offset
Design
Do Not Design
Curated by: Yanda
Creative Director: Yanda
Designer: Lim Yu Shan
Editor: Shena Chan
Printing
AlsOdoMinie
Designed and published by Singapore-based firm Do Not Design, DEAR celebrates the oddities and humor of everyday life. Die-cut and assembled to cause readers to question the meanings of commonplace symbols, the cover of this inaugural issue drives home the unifying concept of “Lost & Found”.
Dimensions (Width × Height × Depth)
8.6 × 12 × 0.6 in.
Page Count
182
Paper Stock
SuedeTex Ivory 252gsm / Book Cream 80gsm
Number of Colors
5
Varnishes
–
Binding
Exposed Thread-sewn
Typography
–
Project Description
DEAR is a zine that collects, archives and immortalises in print, all things fun and unique. From casual conversations to visual essays that aim to assault your senses, to basically anything that piques our curiosity, DEAR celebrates the unusual and the interesting in the spirit of fun. With a healthy pinch of humour and just a dash of seriousness, DEAR is for the everyday person who wishes to uncover the little oddities in everyday life.For our inaugural issue, we visit nostalgia by exploring the theme Lost and Found in our salad-bowl of a nation, Singapore. Mixed cultures, forgotten identities and the quest for meaning in retrospection are uncovered and probed into by contributing artists Ang Song Nian, Aik Beng Chia, Caleb Ming, Cleo Tsw, Debbie Ong Gie, Ernest Goh, Esther Goh, GT Gan, John Clang, John Nursalim and Yang Tan.
The theme Lost and Found was the main focus of the cover design. A noisy mass of text created through the removal of word spaces, die-cuts and overlaps presents itself as a chunk of letterforms, albeit so familiar to us, in a disorientating, and uncomfortable fashion. Words and meaning are lost at first glance, but later found again upon careful inspection.
Production Lesson(s)
Was very used to doing publication that can fit 4 spreads on one big sheet, counting 16 pages as one signature but this was bigger and didn't realized it can only fit 12 pages on one big sheet. Production cost could have be cheaper a bit but was a good lesson learnt.
Post Author
Kelly Cree
Writer for UnderConsideration LLC.
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Date Published
July 13, 2015
Filed Under
Offset
Zine
Tagged with
die-cut
exposed threadsewn
photography
singapore
thread sewn
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