About FPO

FPO is a blog dedicated to both the visual stimulus and the detailing of the development and production of printed matter: Annual reports, books, business cards, stationery suites, collateral materials, posters, packaging and anything else where ink meets substrate. A subject matter we know, love and understand. A process that, despite numerous eulogies, is still alive. Perhaps even more lively than ever as designers are tasked with producing their designs under tighter budgets and pressing concerns about the environment. By focusing on print work, we know that we will have an endless array of work to showcase as it rolls of the presses and by creating very detailed project overviews and sharing the production details of each project we can actually establish a source of both inspiration and education.

The name of the blog is, of course, inspired by the decades-old tradition of labeling images, illustration and/or text that are not ready to print yet as FPO, "For Placement Only." The play on words was very straightforward: Our blog will be only… for… print, so we named it For Print Only, "FPO."

The content of FPO will be gathered by submissions from our readers as well as by the findings we make online. We will do our best to show the most recent work produced, so that the blog doesn't feel like you have seen everything before. Whenever possible we will have the full scope of production details and project overview but we will also post projects where we are unable to gather all that information when we think they are worth sharing despite the lack of minutia.

You are most welcome to submit your latest projects. Please see our submission criteria.

One quick note about the bright colors: Yes, we know they are bright. But they are fun. We intend to change them up every month for no other reason than it should take three minutes to do so.

And you can always contact us with any questions, feedback.

Bryony and Armin
Principals
UnderConsideration LLC