Client Directed, 'Mayflower'

University project

Unlike my other uni projects this was a client-led project to teach and gain experience in the real-world. The client for this project was the Folio Society, who briefed me and supervised my progress with the designs.

To work with this client whilst still at uni was a genuine treat for me. I particularly enjoyed working on this project and the intense tyopgraphic setting needed to recreate the professional standard. In particular I wanted to create a high-quality dummy to include in my submission, and in doing so learnt much about bookbinding; folding, stitching, gluing and binding.

I used contemporary images for the binding and title page designs, adapting them to fit the space and tone of the book.

  • Size | 156 x 234mm
  • Typeface | Ten Oldstyle with IM Fell DW Pica display
  • Paper Stock | Olin Natural White 90gsm
  • Endpapers | Windsor & Newton Ice Blue 150gsm
  • Binding | Windsor Deal Lined Bookcloth, 2mm greyboard
  • Binding design | Screen printed design taken from [Title page of Nova Brittania: offering most excellent fruits by planting in Virginia, illustrated with sailing ship], 1609
The cover was carefully screenprinted onto the bookcloth
The title page in the classic Folio Society style
An custom illustrated map for each section divider
The typefaces at work on an example spread
One of the provided maps with altered typefaces
A colour printed section was bound in with the text sections
The index was set using a smaller point size accross two columns
  • Size | 156 x 234mm
  • Typeface | Ten Oldstyle with IM Fell DW Pica display
  • Paper Stock | Olin Natural White 90gsm
  • Endpapers | Windsor & Newton Ice Blue 150gsm
  • Binding | Windsor Deal Lined Bookcloth, 2mm greyboard
  • Binding design | Screen printed design taken from [Title page of Nova Brittania: offering most excellent fruits by planting in Virginia, illustrated with sailing ship], 1609