Issue 6, Ran Dian, 2018

Magazine

The theme of Ran Dian Issue 6 was Process. Once again, the issue demonstrates a new use of the 12-column grid but with the same system of Univers Condensed Bold and Hiragino in a fixed set of typesizes.

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Ran Dian, Issue 6

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Ran Dian, Issue 6, front cover

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The issue explores posterization, a technique often used in silkscreen printing to render high contrast images in multiple colors. For the issue, we posterized various images and replaced standard CMYK inks with a randomized combination fluorescent and metallic inks.

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Ran Dian, Issue 6, interior spread

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Ran Dian, Issue 6, interior spread

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Ran Dian, Issue 6, interior spread

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The posterized images are featured both in a front gallery section of the magazine and on the one-side coated card stock cover and chapter dividers. The metallic and fluorescent inks partly obscure content on the dividers.

The images are also featured in a continuous section of the magazine, printed in different sections of 16 pages with different combinations of fluorescent and metallic inks replacing the CMYK channels.

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Ran Dian, Issue 6, interior spread

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Ran Dian, Issue 6, interior spread

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Ran Dian, Issue 6, detail of interior spread

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Designed with Immanuel Yang

Typefaces: Univers Bold Condensed, Hiragino
Dimensions­: 23 × 30 cm/9 × 11.8 in
Pages: 256 pp
Paper­ (cover): CCNB 200 gsm
Paper (interior): CCNB 200 gsm; UPM gloss 100 gsm; New Snow matt paper 105 gsm
Ink (cover): 5/5 black, PMS 877, 801, 804, and 803 offset
Ink (interior): 5/5 with different combinations of black, PMS 801, 804, 803, 802, 877, and 811 offset; 1/1 black offset
Linescreen: 60 lpi, 133 lpi
Binding: perfect bind, hot melt
Printing: Artron, Shenzhen, CN