19/05/11 - some further print research for Japan magazine

Both of the sources below were reference points for me when I was considering the print finishes for my Japan magazine. The first, by Inventory studio, for the Skin and Bones exhibition at Somerset House is the kind of feel I was aiming for with the more pared down ’slicker’ parts of my magazine. (Throughout this project I kept recalling Paulus’ words that I should not create ‘a mess’). Having finished the magazine I think it is more restrained than I had initially anticipated – there is less overprinting and a very considered approach to image placement etc but there are crazy moments in there too …

Also I liked the way that Fraser Muggeridge studio hadn’t sanitised the hell out of the images for the Downtown New York exhibition poster at the Barbican – both of the above sources were useful reminders to me when preparing the magazine to not be nervous about letting the materials speak for themselves and to treat the empty space and images as equivalents.

Here are a couple of images of my magazine. The back cover, and some laser cutting I had done for one of the inside spreads: