37. PUMA GAFFER FONT

The gaffer tape workshops reminded me and got us talking about Puma's renowned football typography made out of gaffer tape. "Gaffer", designed with GBH and digitised by Dalton Maag, started out as an experimentation of folds and angles using 150 rolls of gaffer tape, selecting the material for representing its global accessibility and to capture "raw, passionate enthusiasm" in football across all levels – Make Football Anywhere. It's very neat, and is still used today by select clubs like BVB Dortmund.

> Read about it on Designboom here.
> Read about it on It's Nice That here.

35. GAFFER TAPE + CARDBOARD WORKSHOP THREE

> Put in context

> Used in context

34. GAFFER TAPE + CARDBOARD WORKSHOP TWO

> Completed product shots

> Details

33. GAFFER TAPE + CARDBOARD WORKSHOP ONE

> Making the object

My object chosen was an A5 publication (magazine/journal/book type thing). I had a vision of peeling off thin layers of the collected cardboard to make smooth, delicate pages and to bind it neat and flush with dextrously applied Gaffa tape for a beautiful artefact. So that was the vision haha. My fingers ache...