A risograph studio in Sheffield that prints for other people and teaches anyone who turns up. A riso lays one ink per pass, so the identity is built the way the machine works: two inks, flat shapes, and one angle that everything on the sheet has to obey.
Five letters in two slabs, one black and one red, butted with no gap. It is a word set as a machine part rather than a logo drawn to be admired.
Primary lockup with an angle panel
Each season is assigned one angle from four. Every bar, slab and line on every sheet that season is set to it. Nothing is levelled up to look tidier, and nothing gets its own angle.
Two inks, because a riso prints one at a time and a third pass costs a third of the day. Red is for anything the public is invited to. Blue is for anything you have to book.
#E8262AEvents, open days, anything free to walk into.#1B4FA0Workshops and courses. Anything with a fee and a limit on places.#17150FAll type and every rule. Present on every sheet without exception.#EFE9DCThe stock. Its tooth is part of the palette, not a defect.A condensed grotesque that goes very heavy, for everything set in a slab, and an ordinary workhorse for the paragraphs nobody should have to read at an angle.
Three sheets from one season, so all three share an angle. Two are red because anyone can come, and the middle one is blue because it has twelve places and a fee.
Spring season, angle minus fourteen
The wedge survives all the way down to a ticket stub. On the timetable it moves to the left page so the right page can stay level and be read.
Workshop ticket, 180 × 80 mm
Season timetable, A4 landscape
Short runs from twenty five copies, on stock we keep in the building. Quotes back the same day, usually within the hour.
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Window card, A3
Three of these make the sheet look tidier and all three kill it. The fourth is what happens when somebody wants to use both inks because both inks are nice.