Ryan Waller is a partner at Other Means, a Brooklyn-based graphic design studio working with architects, artists, curators, editors, institutions, and schools.
This spectacular type specimen book, consisting of 48 very large pages, not only presents the new SuperScotch serif typeface developed by François Rappo but also offers a successful homage to the art of printing. The volume’s letterpress printing – which necessitated a great deal of handcraftsmanship – alludes to the typeface’s historical inspiration in Scottish typography of nineteenth-century travel publications. Six different paper types – some of which include cotton fibre – occasion an intriguing haptic diversity, and both the ink application and the impression left by the printing plates confer to the sometimes huge characters a tangible impact. The…
