Celia Sings

Some of you may remember the post that I wrote last December about the sad passing away of Celia Stothard. http://justinsamazingworldatfennerpaper.blogspot.com/2010/12/celia-stothard-1949-2010.html. Well, I can now happily report that a fantastic book celebrating her life has now been published, a book of which I am sure she would have been proud.

Celia was Alan Kitching's partner both in life and work. They happily collaborated on so many projects and this book is Alan's testament to Celia's creative life from working at the Sunday Times Magazine in the 1970's up to recent projects, at the same time as covering her life as a singer and performer.

It's a beautifully produced book. Look at the pictures and then I'll describe it!

End papers (Colorset 120gsm) with a pocket including a CD:

Unfolded wrap, that forms a dustjacket around the book, printed letterpress by Alan Kitching:

OK, now for the details....

The book is 280x205mm, portrait. It is section sewn, with blue cloth tape around the spine and has 3000 micron greyboard mounted to form the front and back "hard" covers. The outer front cover is hot foil blocked in two colours (red and blue) and there is a "plate sunk" panel with a picture of Celia mounted in the panel. The endpapers are blue in the front and red in in the back, both produced using Colorset 120gsm. There is 80pp of text which is all printed on our StarFine White 150gsm (an uncoated text and cover paper) which looks amazingly printed aaaaaand, (here's the slightly incredible bit) it's is all printed digitally on an Indigo press, printed by Pureprint - simply a stunning printed result.

The book is art directed by Simon Esterson. Designer on the project (and researcher and archivist) is Jon Kielty with Alan Kitching overseeing and orchestrating the whole project.

Richard Owers at Pureprint handled the print. Aaron Archer, Technical Director at Pureprint dealt particularly with the Indigo printing aspects of the production.

Alan Kitching presented last week at the AGI Congress 2011 in Barcelona, his work and the work that they had made together, as well as this lovely book:
http://www.a-g-i.org/5184/current-articles/barcelona-2011-agiopen-and-the-agi-congress.html

The book can be bought in all good bookshops (such as Magma) and on line, with all profits from the publication going to the Stothard/Kitching Trust. (PS only a limited edition have the signed poster/dustjackets)

www.thetypographyworkshop.com

www.pureprint.com

www.estersonassociates.co.uk

www.jmgstudio.co.uk

Posted by Justin Hobson 31.10.2011