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BROWSE
“Letting Type Talk” Poster/Booklet
Production Method
Offset
Design
Mike Sulick
Printing
Waldwick Printing Company
A typographic exploration that matches the 8-panel challenge of flipping through a booklet that unfolds to a large poster. With issues 1 and 2 printed, I look forward to the next (already planned) four issues.
Dimensions (Width × Height × Depth)
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Page Count
8 (when folded)
Paper Stock
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Number of Colors
4
Varnishes
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Binding
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Typography
Akzidenz-Grotesk
Project Description
Letting Type Talk is a series of posters/visual essays that provides insight on a very important aspect of design: innovative exploration of typography. It is a love letter to a select few typographers from across the globe - those who have shaped the world of graphic design and visual culture through their contributions to the field. For some, this may even serve as an introduction to new ways of talking through type.Each issue highlights one specific designer, displaying both their famous and lesser-known works, as well as a look into their unique methods of working with type. Each issue also comes with a set of 4 postcards based on the work of that issue's designer.
These are the first two of six planned issues.
Production Lesson(s)
When starting the project, I wanted to honor each typographer the right way - I couldn't decide between a booklet, poster, essay, or a pamphlet, so in the end I sort of combined them all into one, where I could cut a portion of the poster down the middle so it could be folded into a booklet, with the backside featuring an essay I wrote in admiration of the design history. This made the front-facing poster a challenge when folded, because each portion had to be interesting in its own right so it could be flipped through, so I scattered little details across each of the 8 panels.
Post Author
Bryony Gomez-Palacio
Editor of FPO and co-founder of UnderConsideration LLC.
More: Online / On Twitter
Date Published
September 30, 2016
Filed Under
Booklet
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About
FPO (For Print Only), is a division of UnderConsideration, celebrating the reality that print is not dead by showcasing the most compelling printed projects.
FPO uses Fonts.com to render Siseriff and Avenir Next.
FPO is run with Six Apart’s MovableType
All comments, ideas and thoughts on FPO are property of their authors; reproduction without the author’s or FPO’s permission is strictly prohibited
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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
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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.
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