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8 Million Stories in a Naked City
Production Method
Digital
Silkscreen
Design
Luis Rodrigues
Sara de Castela, designer
Printing
Blissett Bookbinders
A stunning cover with a black and white offset photograph is amplified with a hit of red silkscreen for the title setting the tone for the rest of the elegant layout inside that allows the photographs to tell the story of the building.
Dimensions (Width × Height × Depth)
–
Page Count
80
Paper Stock
Mohawk / Superfine / Smooth / 120gsm
GF Smith / Colorplan / White Frost / 200 gsm
Number of Colors
3
Varnishes
–
Binding
Perfect Bind
Typography
Bembo
Futura
Project Description
"8 Million Stories in a Naked City" is a book that gathers photos from a visit to the Heygate Estate before its demolition. This was a large housing estate located in Elephant & Castle, South London, and constructed in 1974. Forty years after its inception, it was demolished. Shortly after coming to the UK in 2013 we passed near the Heygate Estate, at the time already close to its demise, and we were amazed by the brutalist architecture of the large housing blocks, that intensified the emptiness of that vast space in the city centre. Knowing that it would soon be brought to the ground, we decided to register the last moments of the estate. We then decided to compile those photos in a book. More than being a recollection of those last days of the Heygate Estate, we wanted it to also be a reflection about its failure and urban emptiness in general.Production Lesson(s)
When it comes to silkscreening, it is important to consider the paper stock that you are printing on and how the ink reacts to it. For the book cover, we were initially selecting an overly porous paper stock that was absorbing too much of the ink and thus not creating enough contrast with the image in the background. After a few tests we realized that we would be better off going for something that would enable us print a more opaque layer of ink.
Post Author
Bryony Gomez-Palacio
Editor of FPO and co-founder of UnderConsideration LLC.
More: Online / On Twitter
Date Published
June 28, 2016
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