One to Five
︎︎︎Publication
Designing a new quarterly publication for St Bride Library to mark its 125th anniversary.
Brief ︎︎︎
St Bride Foundation is an independent cultural institute which care for an internationally significant collection covering print, design and typography whilst working with the creative industries locally, nationally and internationally. The publication will be distributed and published by Eye Magazine Ltd and the first edition will be edited by John L. Walters.
The ambitions for this new quarterly publication is to print content that promotes awareness of the Library’s internationally significant historical collection and to future-proof the collections for another 125 years. The first issue will feature articles selected by John L. Walters, that reflect the Library’s historical and contemporary engagement with internationally renowned typographers, designers and print historians.
Solution ︎︎︎
One-to-five is a collection of five publications released each consecutive quarter after the 125th anniversary of the St Bride Library. Each publication will feature a different era of type developments each with a corresponding colour theme. For the first release, there is a blue theme and across the book, a gradient of blue shades will be used to highlight certain key sections, quotes and images. This limited colour palette helps to tie various contrasting styles of type design together uniting them into this first edition. The following editions will each receive a different colour theme with a matching gradient. The idea is that once completed, the pages across each of the 5 editions will create a rainbow of shades to represent the vast collection of the library itself.
