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The Blue Inks
DESCRIPTION
The Blue Inks
CLIENT
Self-promotion
DATE
August to September 2009
DESIGN CREDITS
PRINT CREDITS
TYPE CREDITS
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QUANTITY PRODUCED
200
PRODUCTION COST
"Low. Only ink and paper as I printed the book myself."
PRODUCTION TIME
2 weeks
DIMENSIONS: WIDTH × HEIGHT × DEPTH
130 mm × 135 mm × 8 mm (5.1 in × 5.3 in × 0.3 in)
PAGE COUNT
32
PRINT METHOD
Silkscreen
PAPER STOCK
Cyclus Offset, 200gsm, uncoated, recycled, by New Leaf
NUMBER OF COLORS
5 spot
VARNISHES
Gloss inks on some pages
BINDING
Trimmed and saddle-stitched by hand
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IMAGES HAVE BEEN PHOTOGRAPHED BY UCLLC: www.underconsideration.com
To showcase his illustration and lettering abilities, London based Andy Smith, created a funny booklet titled “The Blue Inks,” a band of mischievous droplets of blue that terrorize other inks and work at a factory. Silkscreened and saddle-stitched by Andy on cover weight paper, the booklet is adorably bulky and the paper has taken on a new kind of texture due to the heavy ink coverage. While the object itself is cool as blue, the story of the Blue Inks is quite clever too. Here’s only half of the story. For the other half you might need to hire Andy and get on his nice side to get one of the 200 copies.
The blue inks get up at 6 (7 in the winter)
They eat eggs & drink coffee
Kill the flies and saddle up the animals
The it’s down the mountain
And into the town
Supplies are bought, hair is cut, bandits are played
They beat up a couple of magentas and chase off some yellows
Then it’s in to the van and off to the factory
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