Crush is a beer 'zine, which is an ongoing side project for design and branding studio O Street. The project allows the studio to combine a bunch of things they love: illustration, print, design and beer!
The focus of issue 3 is 'women in beer'. Historically, brewers were primarily women, until many were targeted as witches and this subject provides a rich seam of content for illustration ...perfect, as we are only a few weeks from Halloween!
The size of the zine is 297x105mm, portrait and is saddle stitched. There is a 4pp cover printed on our
Colorset (100% Recycled) Amethyst 270gsm with a 32pp text on our Crush Corn 100gsm, which is made using 15% residues from the processing of corn plus recycled and FSC fibres. You can read about it
here.
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There are articles about six beers, breweries and women in brewing, all beautifully and wittily illustrated.
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There is also photography but you might have noticed that the images have an unusual look. The reason is that this 'zine is 'Riso' printed as all good zines are! If you aren't familiar with Riso printing, you can read about it
here. Image reproduction is quite crude as it is a monotone with a coarse screen but the result is really unique and characterful and the illustrations have a wonderful quality to them.
The below image shows all the illustration spreads, all printed 2 colour Riso - SUPERB!
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The project was co-ordinated by Jonny Mowat at O Street and my thanks to him for sending me file copies...
The zine is Riso printed and saddle stitched by
Good Press who are based in the centre of Glasgow and they really have made a beautiful job of it.
Posted by Justin Hobson 13.10.2020
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