Extension · not part of the commission
The gate onto the lane · 31 Pennyfield Lane, Bruton · 5 June 2027, about eight hours
Please come to the garden
Marion
is sixty
Saturday the fifth of June · from four o'clock
Through the gate and down the brick path.
Mind the achillea.
450 × 600 mm · shown at about a fifth
The client did not ask for a laminate. He said it would be out in whatever June does for about eight hours — which is a print specification written in plain English, and it is part of the design rather than something to settle with the printer afterwards.
| Substrate | 3 mm aluminium composite (Dibond)Not foamboard and not corrugated plastic: both delaminate in eight hours of rain, and both flex enough on a five-bar gate to crease the face. |
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| UV-cured latex, direct to substrateCured hard rather than absorbed, so a shower sits on the surface instead of wicking into it. No solvent smell in a garden. | |
| Finish | Matt anti-glare laminate, 80 µmMatt because the gate faces south-west and a gloss face at four in the afternoon is a mirror. The laminate is also the water barrier. |
| Format | 450 × 600 mm portrait, 4 mm radius cornersSized to the top rail of the gate. Radiused so nobody catches a hand on it going through with both arms full. |
| Fixing | 4 × A4 stainless cable ties through drilled 6 mm eyeletsEyelets, not adhesive. It comes off in a minute and the gate is unmarked. |
| Ink limit | TAC 240%, terracotta at 92% of the suite valueThe border greens sit close to the terracotta at full strength; pulling the lead back one step keeps the plants legible at three metres. |
Artwork the identity supports · not commissioned, not delivered — the suite is nine pieces