Uniformbooks

Laurence Penney — Mon, 08 Apr 2019 12:21:31 +0000

Overview of the 24 titles that were published by February 2019.

Uniformbooks, located in Axminster, Devon, is an independent imprint for the visual and literary arts, cultural geography and history, music and bibliographic studies. Colin Sackett, the founder, used Gerard Unger’s Oranda in several books before choosing it for the house style of Uniformbooks. It is used in a uniform manner for body text as well as the book and magazine covers.

Brilliant Absence: Pursuing the Kingfisher in the work of Hans Waanders by Ross Hair is the 25th title by Uniformbooks, published March 2019.

Letterpress. New & material poems by Simon Cutts. First published 2013.

On Listening, edited by Angus Carlyle & Cathy Lane. First published 2013, reprint 2015.

“The printed quarterly Uniformagazine ran to ten issues, from 2014 to 2017, gathering contributions by the writers and artists that we work with, sometimes thematically, as well as slighter or singular content.”

Uniformagazine No. 2, Winter–Spring 2015 featuring the Heidelberg GTO at Axminster Press on which the magazine was printed. The GTO (“Großer Tiegel Offset”) is a single-colour machine that was produced from 1972 to 2014.

This post was originally published at Fonts In Use

Colin Sackett at Fonts In Use

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