This is the third issue of the art zine Sitstand, featuring one local artist per issue. The third issue focuses on the work of Colette Stubbings. The typopgraphy is designed using LL Catalogue, paired with the zine’s stalwart typefaces Decimal and Garton.

10×5.75″, 36 pages, singer sewn binding
printed on Mohawk Vellum kraft and pure white
edition of 100
middle spread sewn together with purple thread

Libera revisits the concept of herbarium in a more personal way by telling the life of a woman named Liberatina, through the collection and the cataloguing of the plants grown in her garden between March and April 2022.

The project led to the design of an exposed smyth-sewn book covered with a folded poster that visually translates the location of the plants in the garden into a grid.

The book opens with an interview with Liberatina who tells her story and her passion about cherishing and nurturing life. Her plants also become the main ingredients of the meals that she cooks for her family. The interview is supported by pictures of her past and present.

The main section of the book focuses on the photograms made in the darkroom and on the pictures of Liberatina’s plants and tools in their natural space. The photograms represent the garden’s crops in their stages of growth, ripeness and decay.

The book ends with a facsimile of Liberatina’s recipe book and a biographical apparatus to better understand the interview.

Designed during the course Laboratorio Fotografico held by studio òbelo at CFP Bauer.

Printed on Mohawk Superfine Eggshell Ultrawhite 105 g/m² and Sappi Raw 115 g/m²
Typography set throughout in Manrope by Michael Sharanda

Sitstand is a quarterly printed zine that features one artist per issue.

Because there are often limited options for lesser-known and even established artists to showcase artwork, our main purpose is to expose up-and-coming artists in order to give them a platform to connect with an audience. We're interested in getting to know about each artist's technique, process, history, and purpose.

Issue 02 presents ette, the design practice of Kate Richard.

10×5.75 inches
28 pages
singer sewn binding, green thread
printed on Mohawk Vellum paper

Uniting classic, contemporary and energetic tones, a combination of meaningful and personal graphic elements anchor this sharp and timeless custom wedding invitation design. A custom logo combining L and P as a unique ampersand, sits alongside strong, unexpected, edge-to-edge, handmade textural gradients. Balancing classic with fresh, the energy is made visual through large and loud use of Bureau Brut’s reverse contrast serif font, Traulha, supported by its sans-serif counterpart Traulha Lineara.

Representing the couples storied past and vast future, a foil stamped grid and textured gradient augment on-theme colors, gold accents and layered elements. The design is meant to feel spontaneous and structural, timeless and temporary.

Pieces included: Overall event logo, invitation, RSVP cards, table number cards, envelopes and additional event branding.

Finishing and printing (1-color with gold foil stamping) was handled by Graphic Arts Studio. The chosen paper is Mohawk Keaykolour, Pastel Blue.

Laura Roebuck – Paintings 2009–2019 is a monograph that looks back at 10 years of work by the Californian artist. The publication was designed by Ellen M. Roebuck using the Quasimoda typeface. From Laura Roebuck’s website:

The catalog is 8½×10¼″, 48 pages with 37 color plates, foil stamped cover, translucent flysheet, and a fold-out center spread. Printed in Los Angeles on digital and litho presses on Mohawk Superfine paperstock with eggshell and smooth finishes.

“Laura Roebuck has distilled a lifetime of creative observation and psychological exploration into an artistic language that conveys a unique sense of movement, texture, and color. Her paintings are a passageway to our inner thoughts that awaken our imagination. Laura’s paintings embody a rich history of experiences: from hospitals, lecture halls, and dance studios to villages in Asia and a rural Mexican clinic while also drawing on a bi-coastal relationship to the towns and beaches of New England and California.” – Susan Braham Koletsky / Museum Director

Cassette packaging

Andrew Weathers’ AW Solo Album was issued in a hand-numbered edition of 100. C50 imprinted cassettes were assembled and dubbed in real time at home by William Csorba. Graphic design and creative direction by Matthew Boteilho. Cover photo by Lindsey Milller. Printed locally in Houston, TX with dry white ink using a Kodak NexPress onto Mohawk Keaykolour Steel. Recorded in Littlefield at Wind Tide by Andrew Weathers. Mixed by Seth Chrisman at Cloud Nest in Trivoli, NY.

Artwork text is set in Ogg Display, Ogg Text, and Sharp Grotesk by Sharp Type. Catalog number BHR010, released by Blue Hole Recordings on August 14, 2020.

Blue Hole Recs’ packaging was developed by Matthew Boteilho and William Csorba after more than a decade of buying and listening to cassettes from the global DIY experimental community. The c-card inserts are an obi strip- and book spine-influenced (see: the early 70s paperback Foxfire series) element that uniformly relate across the whole discography by utilizing the same type treatment, print method, and paper lines.

Using commercial vendors with digital machines allows quantities to be kept low while opening up the ability to experiment with the 5th color unit. Loose download cards commonly found inside modern physical media were done away with the help of variable data so that unique codes could be printed direct to the art.

While adhering to a no templates, no mockups mentality—Blue Hole Recs instead places emphasis on making sure that it is the creators and makers themselves who are given the space to spec out the process from start to finish.

Cassette packaging

Cassette packaging

Shell imprinting

Digital artwork

Brand identity and packaging design for Grower Cosmetics, a local brand of eco-cosmetics based on hemp oil and local natural ingredients.

Designer Yan Zaretsky transcends a “raw, handmade and honest experience” using recycled, ecological paper materials and conveys the feeling of care and beauty with the display font Cosi Times from Nikolas Type, expressively highlighting individual product names, while PT Sans by Para Type as well as Grtsk from the Black Foundry find a considered and well-balanced functional usage.

Paper and materials: Favini Crush Olive 250 gsm by Favini / Mohawk Loop Antique Vellum 118 gsm by Mohawk Fine Papers / Micro-cardboard by Gofrotara na Tsvetochnoy

Silkscreen printing and package manufacturing: Alan Bur
Photography: Anatoly Vasiliev

In September 2019, a call for architectural projects was launched to create a new urban neighborhood and logistic center in the 18th arrondissement of Paris called Chapelle International.

Here is the project designed by Plan Comun and Nicolas Dorval-Bory, commissioned by Nacarat. The submission is divided in three parts: concept, project, and team. République Studio arranged them into three separate booklets. When placed on top of each other, the booklets become one.

Designed with one font in one weight, the inside pages are printed on Mohawk paper and the covers on grey Keycolour with one extra layer of white ink. The booklets are then presented in a custom-made screenprinted box.

Behind every branding project there’s dozens of ideas that never saw the light of day. Featuring 12 design studios from around the world, The Process takes an exclusive look at never seen before branding concepts, unused logos, scrapped posters and forgotten artboards from 17 different projects.

Size: 125mm × 176mm. Pages: 244
Paper: Arjowiggins' Curious Collection Skin i-Tone® Black 270g and Mohawk Superfine Eggshell i-Tone® Ultrawhite 118g

A publication which is half instruction manual half artist book companion to Module Operandi – a DIY, 3D-printed pegboard personalization kit. 

Module Operandi is a kit of small moveable bits that attach onto existing standard pegboards, expanding their functionality and enabling personalization. Planned as an open system, this kit of parts enables invention of new ways of using what is typically a utilitarian object. 

Set in Monospace 821 (Bitstream’s version of Helvetica Monospaced) and in custom letterforms constructed by using shapes from the plastic kit. Riso printed on Mohawk Via Vellum, wire-bound.