PROJECT DESCRIPTION

Printing legend Jack Stauffacher’s experimental make-ready sheets informed both the cover and the jacket for the regular edition. Editor and designer Chuck Byrne shares, “Jack would regularly wrap a new book with an old make-ready sheet so that the book had a cover of his own making.... We decided to reproduce a portion of one as the dust jacket for Only on Saturday.”

Byrne chose materials and design elements that Stauffacher himself loved and used often. The book’s trim matches the size of Stauffacher’s standard portfolio (10 by 14 inches), and its pages are printed on paperstock similar in handfeel to his signature Mohawk Superfine. While Stauffacher liked sheets that are more natural in color, Only on Saturday is printed on white paper in order to better reproduce the ink colors he used in his prints.

The interiors feature a spare and restrained design with generously sized reproductions and inset portraits, many supplied by Dennis Letbetter, Stauffacher’s long-time collaborator. Byrne set the book’s text in Stauffacher’s hallmark typeface, Kis, which he used for more than fifty years. Another consideration was accommodating the book’s components — essays, gallery thumbnails, and large-scale reproductions — in a clear and refined manner. “The book needed a somewhat complex grid to handle all the material’s various requirements,” Byrne shares. “But a complex grid was not something Jack would work with.... I think the book reflects Jack’s values but deals with organizational problems that he did not face.”

BOOK INFORMATION

Trim Size: 10 by 14 inches

Number of Pages: 240

Binding Method: Smyth sewn

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Typefaces: Kis-Antiqua Now

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