Work: It’s tight
March 11th, 2009 | by gordon | 
The size for this years (or last) Kancil Awards annual is 21cm x 28cm. Paper is sponsored by Antalis Malaysia; Fine Print Edixion Matt White 120GSM. Probably the only book I’ve worked with up to date with the tightest kerning (generally). General typographic rules are to allow extra kerning on text in all caps but in this scenario, unkerned, and even decreased kerning points in certain cases.
General headlines are flushed right, started off with a virgule (more commonly known as a slash or frontslash), pending on whether the category falls under a particular main section. If an element falls under the category, the underscore will come in then.
Typeface is H&F Knockout. Set in 12 columns with 9.638pt of gutter space. Baseline grids are set to increase every 4.286pt.
I guess some might argue that I’m putting legibility after styling but in this case I would say it’s pretty much what I was ready to do and had in mind. Opposing last years FF Super Grotesk driven design.
Anyway enjoy:
Gold winning ads were treated with dignity in full glory:
Credits were distinguished using different paper type and size. It was meant to run as a report, breaking free from the flow of the ads thus prominent enough for them to be recognizable:
