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