The
Barrowland Ballroom is an iconic music venue in Glasgow. Built as a ballroom and now a music venue, this limited edition book, titled
Barrowland Ballads, features stories, photographs and graphic art from a 2 year-long project by the award winning artists of
Recollective (Alison Irvine, Chris Leslie, Mitch Miller). They worked in close collaboration with the venue, the east end community that surrounds it, and a much wider community of gig-goers, dancers and musicians whose life stories are woven into the building.
The 256pp case-bound book is a 240x170mm size with a 24mm spine and it has what some people call a belly-band or a book-jacket or a wrap.
The wrap is printed our wonderfully light Offenbach Bible 60gsm and features a fold-out Dialectogram. The word Dialectogram does not appear in the dictionary but is an illustration of places, showing them in detail with contextual illustrations. This Dialectogram is an amazing piece of work and is illustrated by Mitch Miller. Below shows the book with the wrap off...
The wrap is folded down to form a 12pp wrap - both ends of which fold in first to make an 8pp which then folds into the inside back and inside back covers.
Below shows the wrap folded out to it's full extent...
It has three horizontal folds.
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The below image shows the full Dialectogram in all it's glory...
If you click on the images, they come up to a more reasonable size. The open size of the wrap is 698x995mm, which is absolutely remarkable given that the stock size of the paper is 720x1020mm, so the printer has really scrimped on the amount of trim, which is a real feat. Printed offset Litho in CMYK.
Below shows a detail of the Dialectogram:
The book is a superb production, the design, writing, photography, illustration and printing is all of the highest standard. The Barrowlands project is supported by Creative Scotland, Merchant City Festival and Glasgow City Heritage Trust. The book is designed and published by
Graphical House in a limited edition of only 400 copies. The excellent printing is by Pressision based in Leeds.
http://www.barrowlandballads.co.uk/
https://www.graphicalhouse.com/
https://pressision.co.uk/
http://barrowland-ballroom.co.uk/
Posted by Justin Hobson 16.03.2020
The Barrowland Ballroom is an iconic music venue in Glasgow. Built as a ballroom and now a music venue, this limited edition book, titled Barrowland Ballads, features stories, photographs and graphic art from a 2 year-long project by the award winning artists of Recollective (Alison Irvine, Chris Leslie, Mitch Miller). They worked in close collaboration with the venue, the east end community that surrounds it, and a much wider community of gig-goers, dancers and musicians whose life stories are woven into the building.
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