Earlier this year, the
John Hansard Gallery, part of
the University of Southampton presented an exhibition titled The
Shepherd’s Whistle, a commissioned project by
Stefan Gec. The exhibition centres around the artist’s fascination with top-secret maps of strategic cities worldwide that were created by Soviet intelligence during the Cold War, alongside an M-72 Soviet army motorbike and sidecar from 1957. Riding the M-72 and navigating using the Soviet maps, Gec journeyed to five UK towns and cities that were identified by the Soviets as having strategic importance.
This is the accompanying literature produced for the exhibition...
The size is A5, portrait and the format is an 8pp right angle fold.
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The leaflet is printed offset litho on our Sixties, 60gsm ...and it works superbly as SIXTIES has the same type of translucency as a tracing paper - but it feels like a normal paper! … so it works perfectly for this publication, allowing the map to show through and provide the backdrop for the essay about the exhibition, written by Ros Carter. You can see the way the translucency works in the image below:
Front cover:
...opens to this spread
Open at full size:
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This image shows the Soviet map which appears on the inside of the leaflet.
The publication is printed offset litho in CMYK and the colour reproduction on Sixties is excellent, as you can see in the image above.
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The exhibition ran from February to April this year. Design is by
Daly & Lyon who are a studio based in London that specialises in design for the arts. Printing is by Aldgate Press.
http://www.jhg.art/event-detail/374-stefan-gec-the-shepherd-s-whistle/
http://www.daly-lyon.co.uk/
http://www.aldgatepress.co.uk/
Posted by Justin Hobson 07.10.2019
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