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Identity, Print
2026
Northbound Press
Role
Identity and print
Client
Northbound Press
Year
2026
A small literary press needed a mark that could live on a cloth spine, a letterhead, and a colophon, and still feel like the same house.
It feels as if the press had always had this face.
Ruth Elling, Publisher
We drew a single monogram and a short set of rules for how type sits on a page. Cloth, paper, and ink were chosen together, so a first edition and a paperback belong to one family.
From the spine to the seal
The work included the mark, stationery, a prospectus, and the opening pages of the first two titles. Everything was drawn at full size, then reduced for the spine and the seal.