Making-Of:
FF Quixo Notebooks
In the second of our posts about the FF Quixo notebook provides an insight into its design, specifications and printing via hand drawn sketches and images taken throughout the production process.
See also: The FF Quixo Notebook.
Product Specifications
Notebook: 13 × 21cm, 64 pages Papyrus Recyconomic Pale Pink 80g/m², cover is printed in two Pantone colors (Pantone 184 & Pantone Violet) + Black.
Dust jacket: 52 × 84cm, Igepa Opakal 50g/m², 4 Pantone colors
(Pantone 184, Pantone 705, Pantone Violet, Pantone Yellow) + Black.
Printed at Gallery Print in Berlin.
Available for free at the TYPO San Francisco and TYPO Berlin.
Initial illustrations of creating a specimen poster that doubles up as a dust jacket
Thoughts on different ways of folding the dust jacket around the notebook.
Calculations for potential sizing of the specimen poster.
Color adjustments at the printers.
First proof
Fine-tuning the color and pressure values.
Talented craftsmen from Gallery Print in Berlin.
Checking the colors.
Four Pantone colors + Black were used:
Black, Pantone 184, Pantone 705, Pantone Violet, Pantone Yellow.
Eagle eyes — Céline and Natalie check the proof.
Céline holding the first proof.
