Printed speech
A7-sized booklet
Near the end of 2008, we were invited by The Wolfsonian, a museum located in Miami, to attend a dinner that would be held on the occasion of two related events: Wim Crouwel's 80th birthday, and the opening of 'Gridnik', an exhibition that would take place between December 5, 2008, and March 10, 2009. Subtitled 'Wim Crouwel and Modern Typography', 'Gridnik' was an exhibition featuring work by Crouwel, combined with pieces drawn from the Wolfsonian collection.
The dinner took place at December 5, 2008, and we were asked to prepare a short toast for the event. Instead of a speech, we created a small booklet, containing a text expressing our admiration for Crouwel. The booklet was a small, A7-sized publication that we printed on our own laserprinter, in a limited edition of 80. The booklet was handed out to all attending dinner guests.
The booklet was actually just a single sheet of A4, printed on one side, and folded into an A7-sized booklet of 8 pages. It's actually a really interesting way of folding: you make a slit in the middle of a single sheet, and then just fold the sheet a couple of times, until a small booklet appears. Shown below the unfolded sheet, front- and backside. (As you see, we used paper with a silver backside). The red line indicates where the slit should be placed.
It's a system of folding that we discovered in the beginning of the 90s, when we came across a punkzine that was folded that way. It's such a beautiful system; you don't need staples or glue: you are binding the zine while you are folding it. In the mid-90s, we actually used the system quite often for our own zine, PHK.
If we ever have the time, we will dig deep in our zine archive, to find the title of the original zine that gave us this idea.
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