Issue 4, Ran Dian, 2016

Magazine

Issue 4 of Ran Dian continues to develop the magazine’s visual identity through Univers Condensed Bold and Hiragino and employing a new use of the 12-column grid.

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Ran Dian, Issue 4, interior spreads

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Ran Dian, Issue 4, front cover

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To translate the theme, Happiness, the character for double happiness is die cut into the one-side coated card stock cover and chapter dividers. The die cuts occasionally obscure text on the chapter dividers, which also act as a table of contents for the chapter.

One-side gold foiled paper is hand collated in different ways throughout the issue and text and images are printed with UV black ink on top of the gold foiled sections.

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Ran Dian, Issue 4, interior spread

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Ran Dian, Issue 4, interior spread

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Designed with Immanuel Yang

Typefaces: Univers Bold Condensed, Hiragino
Dimensions­: 23 × 30 cm/9 × 11.8 in
Pages: 236 pp
Paper­ (cover): CCNB 200 gsm
Paper (interior): CCNB 200 gsm; UPM gloss 90 gsm; New Snow matt paper 105 gsm; gold mirrored paper 90 gsm
Ink (cover): 4/4 CMYK offset
Ink (interior): 4/4 CMYK offset; 1/1 black offset
Linescreen: 60 lpi, 133 lpi
Binding: perfect bind, hot melt, die cut on cover and internal pages
Printing: Artron, Shenzhen, CN