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LJB Studio gets sustainable for PechaKucha Manchester's 20th milestone

To mark its 20th milestone, PechaKucha Manchester recently hosted a night of ‘Future’ themed talks by local designers with sustainability at its heart. LJB Studio was chosen to design, specify and print manage the event programme, taking inspiration from John H Schaar's famous quote: "The future is not some place we are going, but one we are creating".

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Concertina-folded programme with copper foil Roman numerals XX on textured cream paper, displayed open alongside its flat folded state

Going for the sustainable angle, founder Laura Boast chose environmentally-friendly G.F Smith’s ‘Gmund Urban Brasilia Dust’ paper stock, which has a woodgrain effect. "The cover foil design celebrates the special 20th volume, combined with Roman numerals to represent the PechaKucha 20×20 rule: to present a given theme using only 20 images and 20 seconds per image," explains Laura.

"The format for the programme was concertina folded, so when unfolded and stood up the format creates the Roman numeral ‘XX’. And to save on resources no binding methods were used.

"The inside of the programme showcases the line-up of eight speakers, including multi-award winning designer Rick Banks and founder of ‘The Designers Republic’ Ian Anderson. The zigzag layout echoes the ‘XX’, with text flowing bottom, top, bottom, top throughout."

And because the Futura typeface turned 90 this year, Laura decided to use it for the body copy, which complimented the stencil font. A beautiful project. Discover more of LJB Studio's work at ljbstudio.co.uk.

Cream folded programme card with Roman numerals XX in copper foil on textured paper, designed by LJB Studio for PechaKucha Manchester's 20th anniversary event
Concertina-folded programme for PechaKucha Manchester's 20th event, displaying text and speaker images across unfolded pages with coral-coloured diagonal lines forming Roman numerals XX
PechaKucha Manchester 20th event programme showing speaker names including Jade Hanley, Adam Britton, Robb Watson, Ian Anderson, Nick Emworth, Rick Banks and Vimla Patel, printed on sustainable Gmund paper with a copper-coloured bookmark ribbon
Open concertina-fold programme for PechaKucha Manchester's 20th event, displaying text and speaker photographs arranged in a zigzag layout with copper-coloured fold lines on cream paper
Stack of cream-coloured concertina-folded programme booklets with woodgrain texture and foil design on the cover
Stack of cream and tan concertina-folded PechaKucha Manchester event programmes with geometric designs and circular seals on each cover
Black circular sticker reading "Authorised City Bedstuche 20x20" placed on white concertina-folded programme with grey woodgrain paper stock and embossed text
Orange and grey striped numerals "20" with crossing diagonal lines forming the Roman numeral XX design for PechaKucha Manchester's 20th anniversary event programme by LJB Studio
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