{"id":5255,"date":"2009-05-24T02:13:31","date_gmt":"2009-05-24T01:13:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/?p=5255"},"modified":"2009-05-24T02:13:31","modified_gmt":"2009-05-24T01:13:31","slug":"plates-volume-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2009\/05\/24\/plates-volume-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Plates: Volume 2"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/decalcomania\/tectonic_plates2.html\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/plates.jpg\" alt=\"plates.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>My <a href=\"http:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/decalcomania\/tectonic_plates2.html\" target=\"_blank\">third CD design<\/a> for the Tectonic label is another piece of relative minimalism which once again features photos by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lizeve.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Liz Eve<\/a>. All the backgrounds on this occasion are microscope close-ups of vinyl records, very fitting for a double-CD collection of recent 12&#8243; releases.<\/p>\n<p>The Tectonic logo (which predates my involvement with the label) is based on the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/File:Technics.png\" target=\"_blank\">Technics logo<\/a> and for this release I tidied the label logo slightly, a process which led to the discovery that the Technics design used a variant of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.identifont.com\/show?2SA\" target=\"_blank\">Clarendon typeface<\/a> for its letter shapes (it&#8217;s not an exact match). This in turn led me to use Clarendon in various weights across the packaging, something which made a change from the usual sans serif or monospace font. The great Saul Bass frequently used Clarendon for his <a href=\"http:\/\/www.notcoming.com\/saulbass\/index2.php\" target=\"_blank\">title sequences<\/a>; if it&#8217;s good enough for Saul, it&#8217;s certainly good enough for me.<\/p>\n<p>Tectonic main man Rob Ellis talked to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.factmagazine.co.uk\/index.php?option=com_content&amp;task=view&amp;id=2562&amp;Itemid=68\" target=\"_blank\">Fact magazine<\/a> about the new release earlier this week.<\/p>\n<p>Previously on { feuilleton }<br \/>\n\u2022 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2008\/05\/31\/aerial-by-2562\/\" target=\"_self\">Aerial by 2562<\/a><br \/>\n\u2022 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2007\/11\/19\/new-things-for-november\/\" target=\"_self\">New things for November<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My third CD design for the Tectonic label is another piece of relative minimalism which once again features photos by Liz Eve. All the backgrounds on this occasion are microscope close-ups of vinyl records, very fitting for a double-CD collection of recent 12&#8243; releases. The Tectonic logo (which predates my involvement with the label) is &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2009\/05\/24\/plates-volume-2\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Plates: Volume 2&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4,29,7,3,12,10,23],"tags":[435,437,436,434],"class_list":["post-5255","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-design","category-electronica","category-film","category-music","category-photography","category-typography","category-work","tag-liz-eve","tag-rob-ellis","tag-saul-bass","tag-tectonic"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pq7rV-1mL","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5255","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5255"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5255\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5255"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5255"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5255"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}