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05-08-2008, 14:43
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At the end of production.
Join Date: Jan 2008
Location: Oxford
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The reason I use duo tone usually is for print. So if i were to be printing a process Business card for example but I was need to keep costs down, I could maybe create my 4col from just 2 and therefore print it on our 2 cylinder press as appose to our 12 col perfecter. Also of course people use it for looks as with any effect, and maybe create a tri or a quad tone. |
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05-08-2008, 16:56
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sanddancer
Join Date: Feb 2004
Location: South Shields
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seconded there mate. Some nice work Mitch, currently doing a few brochure's ourselves. Your imagery looks quite good, ours are people who do stuff with pipes, only thing they have photos of is mud and wet crap all over. Lovely. One question, did they supply the imagery to you, or did you go out at take them? (obviously the istock is istock  ) |
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06-08-2008, 05:27
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Penis for hire™
Join Date: Mar 2005
Location: Glasgow
Posts: 1,117
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Cheers mate. Actually neither of the examples used is real duotone, as such. The North Face was the way the picture had been supplied from the National portrait gallery (I was not allowed to alter it in any way) And the Lit fest was just a transparency on the image, with a coloured block behind.  Quote:
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06-08-2008, 09:12
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The Fusion Minstrel
Join Date: Jan 2006
Location: York
Posts: 450
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I like the original visuals you've put up Mitch, others have pointed out minor things with the type that I won't repeat, but all in all I'd go with the colour shots rather than the duotones. Quote:
The Durham Literature stuff is fairly nice like. And by fairly nice, I mean class. Obviously. Ah, to have clients that enjoy good design... |
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06-08-2008, 17:45
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Penis for hire™
Join Date: Mar 2005
Location: Glasgow
Posts: 1,117
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Haha, don't worry mate – I keep all the really good shit to myself  |
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07-08-2008, 04:30
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The Fusion Minstrel
Join Date: Jan 2006
Location: York
Posts: 450
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Aye, you do right mate. Always fancied working at SUMO like, but whenever I was living in the North East you weren't hiring. The other day at work I did a layout fairly similar to your Durham Literature booklet (before I saw yours, heh) and was told I needed to work on the typography, and that the girl who did the previous version before I started at my job was on top of her game when it came to typography, and I should look at the last version she created. Well, if being on top of your game at typography means horrendous tracking and kerning (it looks as if she hasn't bothered to correct ANY of the type), ENORMOUS amounts of leading (seriously, there's over a full line height's space between each line), and poor grid layout then I don't want to reach her "top of her game" level. This should be in Fuck Off really... Heh. |
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07-08-2008, 06:07
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Penis for hire™
Join Date: Mar 2005
Location: Glasgow
Posts: 1,117
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Always best to work somewhere, where you director/creative director has a solid design background. I've worked it places where the company owner/director had no design background of note, yet they were giving incoherent pixel pushing advice. Not cool. I actually left SUMO at the end of June to move back to Scotland (should really change my profile) great bunch of people there though. |
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07-08-2008, 07:27
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L'me at'em. L'me at'em.
Join Date: May 2007
Location: Aberdeen, Scotland
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Whereabouts in Scotland are you know Jack? If your colours are starting to run, let them all run, run away from you. Flux - Bloc Party
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