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BROWSE
Dimensions (Width × Height × Depth)
353mm × 1000mm (13.89 in × 39.37 in)
Page Count
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Paper Stock
380 gsm Cyclus Offset
Number of Colors
4 spot inks
Varnishes
–
Binding
–
Typography
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Tom Rowe is deeply fascinated by old obsolete machinery and engineering, and took his knowledge and creativity to develop this poster celebrating its marvelous growth over the last couple of centuries. Created for one of London’s largest illustration exhibitions Pick Me Up at Somerset House, and as a one-fifth part of the illustration collective Evening Tweed—they were kindly given a room at the exhibition to preview their new prints. You can see photos of the event and their Manor House themed drawing room here.
If you look at the specs and the images you will notice that four inks were used to print this poster, yet five colors are actually seen. This is the result of carefully overlapping two of those inks.
The main challenge was to create a fifth colour—the darker green—by overlapping the blue and grey, it was tricky mixing in enough yellow into the grey without it altering its intended neutral shade, previous tests resulted in either the grey becoming too warm and the secondary colour (the green) becoming to dark and muddy. But the wonderful people over at Bob Eight Pop based in East London, solved it, whilst keeping the registration very tight across all one hundred editions, and being a quite peculiar large size and scale this was no mean feat.
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.
Post Author
Bryony
Bryony Gomez-Palacio
Editor of FPO and co-founder of UnderConsideration LLC.
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Date Published
July 20, 2010
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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…
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