Summer of 1,000 RBS Posters (Or, A Study in How to Make OK Posters When Given Lo-Res Files)


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Here’s one from Week Three at Rare Book School.

New book!


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The fifth title in the Kat Ran Essays in Philatelics has just been published: Designed by us in Benton Sans types, Why Stamps? is a new look at the collages of Ivan Chermayeff. Get one for yourself.

Found Elsewhere Department


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We are always pleased to see books we’ve designed used as they are intended: As coasters. Coaster or no, at least the book is being used. Get a readable coaster here. If you want a non-readable coaster, we highly recommend these.

Summer of 1,000 RBS Posters (Or, A Study in How to Make OK Posters When Given Lo-Res Files)


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A poster for Week Two at Rare Book School.

New Book!


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We’ve designed the fourth title in the Kat Ran Essays in Philatelics: Philatelic Atrocities is a fun look book of freaks, oddities, printing, and design.

Time to Join-Up


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We do a lot of work for the American Printing History Association—including their new site. Here’s their new membership brochure in Franklin Gothic and Garamond Premier Pro.

Type and Linen


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Did you know we can walk and chew gum at the same time? It’s true. And to prove it we co-opened a new brick-and-mortar store here in Cambridge. You won’t often find the our book design staff there, but you can see our typography all over the place.

Adverts


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We do more work for the Boston Athenæum than we remember to bill for. Here’s a recent ad for which we forgot to send an invoice. This post is a reminder for our Accounting Department.

Back from the Printer (Come Sale Away Edition)


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Buoyancies by Joseph A. Amato with a drawing by Abigail Rorer. See a few spreads for yourself right here.

Another Day, Another Poster in Red and Black


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The Inaugural Enid Epstein Mark ’54 Lecture will be presented by Mark Dimunation and remembered forever with this poster designed by us—which can also be adapted for a choral music album cover.

Back from the Printer (Nudge, Nudge, Wink, Wink)


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How I Became a Printer: Trevor Winkfield in conversation with Miles Champion. If the photograph of the book in our lap is enticing, then see some spreads here.

Poster for MIT (Again).


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Tess Taylor + Shapes + Benton Sans + Red.