This is a favourite project for a Vancouver new music saxophone quartet lead by Colin MacDonald. It is a CD release poster for his group Saxophilia, a name which fairly demanded the immediate use of Marian Bantjes' and Ross Mills' ornate and sensual Restraint! The always reliable and cleanly elegant Gotham was used to counter it.

The photograph came from the CD cover session I did for the project and involves the use of intentional camera movement over an ornately engraved saxophone belonging to Colin.

The Hungry Workshop:

The sole element used in the design of the invitation is a monospaced typeface she designed called Restraint.

Tiro Typeworks describes the typeface:

Restraint is an ornament font which happens to contain letterforms. It is 100% fanciful all the time, and not for those timid of heart. It contains numerous squiggles and curly bits for creating blocks of exuberance, borders, frames, and graphic flights of fancy.

Restraint is full of surprises – every key is mapped to a unique glyph that lines up perfectly with the next. Bantjes’ craftsmanship makes this typeface a true joy to explore and its depth makes it a very simple task to lose hours in.