Timothy Hyman — London based artist, critic, curator actually painted in a blank fan-fold diary which was presented to us for producing this facsimile limited edition art book.

Color: the original diary was given to us for matching colors. Number of pastel colors were out of gamut for CMYK printing. Special care was taken to manually bring the color to nearest matching printable color in RGB colorspace only before actually converting it to our enlarged 10m stochastic screen ICC profile.

The other challenge was to create the imposition as to make it convenient for the post-production. It is almost a 3 meter long strip made up of 4 six-page forms, 1 five-page form, 1 four-page form pasted together. The page breaks were carefully planned to keep paintings spread on two pages in one form only. Pasting flaps were also planned in a manner that they don’t appear on the pages where they hamper reading the words in the painting.

A die was made and the creasing and pasting flap cutting was done on a die-cutter. Then the flaps were manually folded, pasted and finally the book-block was trimmed from top and and bottom before attaching it to the case.