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Client

Self-promotion


Quantity Produced

500


Production Cost

$2,100


Production Time

9 Days

Dimensions (Width × Height × Depth)

18 in × 24 in


Page Count


Paper Stock

Peagasus, black vellum finish, 80 lb cover


Number of Colors

4 spot: white, silver, 2 PMS

Varnishes


Binding


Typography

Body Copy: Helvetica Neue LT Std
Fanned text: Univers LT Std

This piece is available for purchase for $29

Linked heavily last month, including on our own Quipsologies, Shelby White’s “Typefaces of the World” has gone from viral to print in less than a month, courtesy of the quick folks at Scribble on Anything — who also brought us the Periodic Table of Typefaces and “So you need a typeface” posters, mastering the art of printing on delicious black paper.

The biggest challenge was printing white ink on uncoated black paper. Its was a beast to get it just right. Sure we could have done it on white stock but where’s the challenge in that? We ended up doing 2 hits of silver then overprint two hits of white in line, then a dry trap on for the two PMS colors. The printer Cereus Graphics went the extra mile (and then some) on this project. They ended up throwing in the dry trap at no cost just to make it perfect. If you ever need a print job done right these are the guys. They ran the project like it was their design and they didn’t stop until it was right!

Shelby’s awesome infographic comes to life rather splendidly thanks to the printing: double-hit of silver ink on the type names and a base of white for the blue and orange PMS. The registration on the sample I got is pitch-perfect. Even my macro close-ups didn’t reveal anything. Big ups to the full team: designer, printer, and producer/distributor (Scribble snatches cool poster faster than the Weinsteins can snatch the latest Philip Seymour Hoffman flick at Sundance).

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Production Method

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Design

Wanken: Shelby White

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Printing

Cereus Graphics
Distributed by Scribble on Everything

This post was published in the original layout of FPO so all images are smaller. Project descriptions as well as production lessons are quoted in the main content area.

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Armin

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Armin Vit

Editor of FPO and co-founder of UnderConsideration LLC.

More: Online / On Twitter

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Date Published

February 22, 2011

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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

Brand New Conference / A two-day event on corporate and brand identity with some of today's most active and influential practitioners from around the world.

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.

also

Favorite Things we've Made / In our capacity as graphic designers.

Projects we've Concluded / Long- and short-lived efforts.

UCllc News / Updates on what's going at the corporate level of UnderConsideration.


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