What’s super cool about this book is the duo-tone printing of it. Green and purple, which combine to make brown. This book is very unabashed about the fact that it is printed using two colors only, and this is very apparent in the images especially. They don’t go for a realistic 1-1 look, but instead accept the conditions of the book to a very good-looking end. In the text as well, when there is only the slightest misalignment in printing the text immediately becomes trippy, like watching a 3D movie without the proper glasses. A beautiful ‘mistake’.
Commons in Design
Edition: 2023
Date of publication: September 2023
Language: English
Translator: Liana Simmons (copy-editor)
Publisher: Valiz, Amsterdam
Graphic designer: Virginie Gauthier (Amsterdam), Zuzana Kostelanská (Amsterdam), Maud Vervenne (Amsterdam)
Lithographer: Wilco Art Books (Mariska Bijl), Amersfoort
Printer: Wilco Art Books, Amersfoort
Binder: Wilco Art Books, Amersfoort
Size book block (w x h x d in mm): 165 x 230 x 25
Number of pages: 352
Print run: 3000
Price: € 29,50
ISBN: 9789493246300
Font and foundry: Arial Bold, Bradford LL, Routed Gothic (foundry kunnen we invullen indien boek wordt uitverkoren)
Binding style: Sewn softcover, cold gluing
Paper for interior (grammage): 70gsm Holmen TRND 2.0, Igepa
Material cover (grammage): 240gsm Constellation Snow E07 Martellata, Fedrigoni
Special features: Cover and interior printed in two Pantone colors (802 Neon Green, Pantone Purple); the combination of fluorescent green and pink-purple gives dark brown (text). Both colors are printed at the edges. The lithography and the printing of the images use the same 2 colors; it gives an alienating feel, but text and images are still readable.