All work

Editorial

Vale Editions

Series design for an independent publisher of essays on landscape, memory and place.

Client

Vale Editions

Discipline

Editorial

Location

London

Year

2024

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The story

Vale Editions

The brief

Vale publishes six short books a year. Each one had been designed alone, so the list never looked like a list.

Our approach

We created a fixed cover architecture with a single variable: a full-bleed photograph chosen by the author. Interiors use generous margins and a text face sized for reading outdoors.

The outcome

The series won shelf space in three national bookshop chains in its first year.

A series should look like a shelf, not a pile.

Vale Editions

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