Issue 2, Ran Dian, 2015

Magazine

Ran Dian is a contemporary Chinese art magazine. After having worked on PIN–UP, Ran Dian represented a new opportunity to focus on a dual language reading and typesetting and experiments with supply chain printers in China.

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Ran Dian, Issue 2, interior spreads

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Ran Dian, Issue 2, front cover

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Issue 2 was the first issue we designed, and established an identity that would evolve over the following issues. The magazine is typeset in Univers Condensed Bold for English and Hiragano for Chinese, and employs a 12-column grid and fixed set of 3 type sizes.

One-side coated card stock is used for the cover and multiple chapter dividers bound into the magazine, and the magazine is perfect bound with pur glue. Each issue uses a different production technique to illustrate the theme.

For Issue 2, the theme was Institutional Critique and two black inks are overprinted on top of each other on the chapter dividers.

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Ran Dian, Issue 2, interior spread

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Ran Dian, Issue 2, interior spread

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Ran Dian, Issue 2, detail of interior spread

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Designed with Lu Liang

Typefaces: Univers Bold Condensed, Hiragino
Dimensions­: 23 × 30 cm/9 × 11.8 in
Pages: 220 pp
Paper­ (cover): SUN C1S board 315 gsm
Paper (interior): SUN C1S board 215 gsm; UPM gloss 105 gsm; New Snow matt paper 105 gsm
Ink (cover): 5/5 CMY and 2 × black offset
Ink (interior): 4/4 CMYK offset; 2/2 black offset, 1/1 black offset
Linescreen: 60 lpi, 133 lpi
Binding: perfect bind, hot melt
Printing: Artron, Shenzhen, CN