stock

Ale & I just had a meeting to discuss to stock for the three publications that will be printed for his portfolio. Photographs will fade when printing them from normal printers on stock and so the images will be exposed onto photographic paper in order to make sure that the images will last and obtain their true colouring.

Each category of Ale's photographs (ie landscape, fine art & commercial) have different characteristics that will be optimised with certain photographic stocks. With this in mind the decision has been made to use three different stock types for each publication:

Landscape
Hahnemuhle Bamboo, 210gsm, natural white, 90% bamboo & 10% cotton
This stock supposedly represents naturalness and spirituality. It's ideal for warm toned colour and monochrome tints, making it ideal for the the landscape publication.

Commercial
Hahnemuhle Fine Art Pearl, 285gsm, bright white/pearl finish, 100% a-cellulose
Ideal for strong contrasts and pictoral depth with a unique pearly finish. With strong colouring it would work really nicely for the commercial photography.

Fine Art
Hahnemuhle Baryta, 325gsm, bright white, 100% a-cellulose
This stock is high gloss and creates high colour depth, large colour gamut and strong image definition.

Ale will be receiving samples on each stock sometime next week which will allow me to get a feel for the stock and photographic quality/characteristic for each one. I now need to find out about binding and look into stock/textured material for the cover of each publication, looking at how they'd sit with the specific stock.

Alessandro De Besi

Just had a meeting with Ale to find out about his photographic practice so that the design process will be worked around him as a photographer and will will be appropriate to the context.

He works with a Pentax P3 film camera, using a 35mm medium/square format film. The lens is Hassleblad & his most recent work is mostly colour.

There are three main areas of Alessandro's practice which are Landscape, Fine Art and Portraiture. Landscpae seems to be his favourate area, taking alot of interest in compositions of a frame. His fine art is more experimental, working with pinhole cameras. The portraiture is combined with photography for furniture design photographing both the furniture designer and the furniture itself. 

Other work includes video production for a side project, Dilate, which is a collaboration with artists which he would like to be included in the portfolio.

Inspirations include Ben Ingham and Pieter Hugo

All images will be produced in square format with a main focus on composition.

Deliverables include:
logo
business cards
publication
portfolio
emboss stamp
letterheads
photograph pouch
clips
...

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