Dear Reader Volume 1. Out now.
Dear Reader is a self-initiated publication by Atelier Carvalho Bernau. It originates the urge to unveil the hidden references of design processes, and share the steps of that process that never leave the studio otherwise.
A collection of obsessions, oblique references and footnotes of design processes — though not necessarily texts about design.
The layout is appropriately diverse and eclectic for the bandwidth of texts, layering different formats and texts, as a tongue-in-cheek reference to the design shtick of publications with different paper formats. Here, Atelier Carvalho Bernau present three iconic formats in emphasised-as-fake three-dimensionally, on four different papers and more inks than you would think.
Dear Reader was created partly from a primordial graphic designers’ urge to publish something and to share texts that are dear to the designers, partly in celebration of the Atelier’s approximate fifth anniversary, and partly as a vessel to showcase their type design work in a manner that circumvents the conventions and the visual clichés of the type specimen.
