Studio specimen · Legacy edition

Ninety Years

A company history, 1936–2026

A ninety-year history is bought for the shelf and the boardroom table, so the cover has to look like a book that will last, not a brochure for this year.

This specimen leans on a single real photograph of an old craftsman among his tools. One face says nine decades of hands-on work more plainly than a montage of logos and factory exteriors.

Format: Legacy edition
Extent: Cover

At full size

Detail of the Bodoni title NINETY YEARS over the dark foot of the photograph

Detail of the italic line From one workshop in Girgaon to forty countries and the gold edition line

Detail of the craftsman's face in the black-and-white photograph

Decisions

One portrait, kept in black and white
The photograph runs full bleed and untinted. Black and white ties it to the archive pictures inside the book and keeps the gold and cream type as the only colour.
A double gold frame
Two fine gold rules, a heavier one and a hairline 1.6 mm inside it, turn the page into a mounted print. It is the one ornamental touch, so it reads as care rather than decoration.
The title waits for the dark
NINETY YEARS sits at the foot, where the photograph falls to near black, set in Bodoni with open tracking. The face above stays clear of type.
Dates and place in plain words
1936 — 2026 in small capitals at the head; “From one workshop in Girgaon to forty countries” in italic below the title; edition and extent in spaced gold capitals. Nothing on the cover needs a key.

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One portrait, kept in black and white

A double gold frame

The title waits for the dark

Dates and place in plain words

Tell us what you want to publish.