July 23, 2006
A Panopticist Cover That’s Good Enough to Eat

Posted by Andrew Hearst

My good friends Greg and Frankie are getting married next Saturday in Brooklyn. A couple of months ago, they asked me to design their wedding invitation. They came up with the concept, wrote all the copy, and provided the photos, and I designed it and laid it out as four 8" by 10.5" pages (front and back covers with an inside spread). Greg and Frankie are both Canadian, which explains the green card joke, and our pal Clive got a pastor’s license so he can perform the ceremony, which explains the line at the top of the cover. (For the “good enough to eat” part, see the end of this post.)

Us Weekly: Greg and Frankie's wedding invitation

Us Weekly: Greg and Frankie's wedding invitation

Us Weekly: Greg and Frankie's wedding invitation

The back cover was an intentionally cheesy photo of Greg and Frankie with the wedding details underneath it. New York photos by Melissa Hribar; Paris photo by Michel Bourque. The main font used throughout is Relay Comp Black, which you can buy here for $40.

Wait, there’s more! Earlier this month one of Frankie’s co-workers asked me for a high-res graphic of the cover, because people at work wanted to print it onto marzipan for a party for Frankie. Who was I to refuse? Ladies and gentlemen, I give you the first-ever edible Panopticist cover:

Greg and Frankie's wedding invitation

(The cake was made by Regina at Grandma’s Secrets in Harlem.)





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