The studio
Four people who will not stop printing things.
COLOPHON is a design practice in Leith. We work print-first and screen-second, because the constraint makes the thinking honest — and because a thing you can hold is harder to argue with.
The four of us
Iris Vandal
Founder · Type
Set her first book at nineteen and has not forgiven a bad ligature since.
Marlow Weir
Art direction
Came from signwriting. Still measures everything at eight metres first.
Sena Rill
Editorial
Reads the whole brief out loud before anyone is allowed to draw.
Bo Larkin
Production
Knows which paper will curl and tells you before the quote, not after.
What we keep insisting
01
One ink is a decision. Sixteen is a system.
02
If it cannot be printed, it is not finished.
03
The proof is the argument. Slides are not proofs.
04
We would rather lose the pitch than the point.
A studio is just a room where somebody keeps insisting.
Iris Vandal, 2014