De embossing

With the main content of the publication including replications of some of the methods of signage at the market, the Banh & Mee sign was chosen because of the unique style of which the sign was made- likely to be wood that is carved into the letterforms. So with this unique and hand rendered method, it was a good starting point in order to replicate with the hand technique of de embossing. With the laser cut plates made by rasterising the circle in order to make the letterforms to stick out, they were used with different paper stocks. With the content having different sized 'posters' it was decided that because of the de embossing it would be best to have it A5 so there isn't a fold crease of which would ruin the effect. With the process, I tried with three different stocks; black recycled card, handmade white stock and recycled brown paper. As the 'Vietnamese Street Kitchen' ended up being really small when laser cut, two plates were made in order to test the legibility when de embossed. The conclusion, was that the words were legible when de embossed and created a better result. With the process it was learnt that because the stocks I used had small gsm weight, they didn't need to be soaked for very long, therefore it was learnt and applied with only soaking for around 30 seconds approximately to achieve the best result. The most effective result out of the three stocks was the recycled brown paper as because of the grains and the low gsm it created the most resemblance to the sign in Kirkgate market, of which reflects the material of wood. 

(reference pic that was taken)

Final result