Cinquième Couleur
Nathalie Guiot, director of the Cinquième Couleur print shop in Paris, invited us to work on this challenge of the artist Manuel Mérida, in the context of an exhibition organised by the Espace Meyer Zafra in Paris.
In his works, Manuel Mérida experiments with organic materials, and his inspiration is motivated by the succession of constructions and deconstructions that time gives us.
The singularity of the project is the cover. The artist has worked the colour pigments in a specific dosage, which has been deposited on the cover, reminding us of a fluid, a kind of “vision from the fishbowl”. The teamwork of the technical office of Nexe Impressions and the Artmoon workshop has achieved the objective.
A challenge in which we have suffered and enjoyed in equal parts, but as always when the result is successful, it has been worth it.
We always enjoy exploring the limits of our craft, trying to go beyond what is conventional, to produce unique and original pieces and thus help our clients and collaborators to achieve the objectives of such special projects.
Specifications
Direction of graphic production
Printing and binding
Nexe Impressions / Artmoon
Pagination
Book 180 pages + flyleaves + cover with overlays
Format
280 x 340 mm
Printing
Inside: HP INDIGO 4/4 inks on 170 gsm extra FSC top offset
Cover: Printed in one colour, with 20 cm diameter die-cutting
Paper
Inside: 170 gsm extra FSC top offset.
Flyleaves: 140g Popago Intense Offset (yellow, orange and blue with matching pigments)
Binding
2.5 mm printed hardcover with ivory white cardboard without cups and flat spine.
Finishes
Hot stamping on the cover with the artist’s name (3 different colours).
Pigment handling: the pigment supplied by the artist is applied in individual doses directly onto the cut-out circle.
Packaging
Individual boxes in recycled microflute cardboard made to measure and personalised with the same colours as the pigments.
