Domino's Pizza Annual Report / 1984

A rather unique Report from the youth oriented Domino’s Pizza.  The beautifully made dark-wood box is 8.75 x 5.25 x 1.75 inches with metal rod holding the lid in place.  I assume it was custom made for the slim Report and the dominoes and I believe it cost $65 per box.  Open the lid and folded grease-proof sheet separates the Report and the two layers of dominoes.  The unfolded sheet has the Rules of the Game printed in black. 

    The dominoes are a bit bigger than one by two inches and printed with two colors on each side.   The report has thirty-two pages followed by a long twenty page pull-out for the Financial Statements and Notes.  As it was wire bound different weights of paper could be used with printing in matt black and four color with a 150 screen. 

    A nice touch was a fifth working of light grey than runs through the Report as a whole page color or as near invisible type for a clever graphic effect.  Top marks to Group 243 Design in Ann Arbor for designing a quite stunning Report.

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Impressions in color / Bergstrom Paper / 1967

Impressions in color from Bergstrom Paper in 1967 was nothing special as a designed paper promotion but more a sound curio. It was a two part sleeve, one had a twelve inch record and the other four twelve page booklets. Each one looked at different color printing techniques on Bergstrom paper .It was the record that attracted me. The center pages folded out to show examples of these techniques.

     Some marketing person had the clever idea of combining the rhythmic quality of printing presses with music. Composer Bill Walker taped the working sounds of Harris, Miller and Mielhe flat-bed presses (huge rotary units just make a continuous roar and don’t have the sound air suction cups to lift and place individual sheets into the rollers) and used these at the beginning and end of each track.You can hear the printing tracks on this website: http://a-hole-in-the-head.blogspot.co.uk/2008_09_01_archive.html

     The other side of the record had six tracks of Walker’s big band instrumental compositions. The record is mildly interesting but hardly worth paying a few dollars for if you see in on the net.