A Guide to Fold Your Tarde’s Issues

Tarde is a handbook made from a single A4 sheet, printed on both sides and folded four times. Some issues, however, may also include additional folios or other printed materials, such as stickers, postcards, photographs, or maps. These extra folios may vary in format, size, and folding method. To make the process easier, we have prepared this guide to help you print, cut, and fold all your Tarde issues.

  • Before printing an issue, please open the file in Adobe Acrobat or a similar program. This will help ensure better communication with your printer and preserve the original file format.
  • Please keep a ruler, a cutter, and a cutting mat, or any other surface suitable for cutting, close at hand.

Handbook

As it was already introduced, the handbook should be printed on an A4 sheet. Although, in general terms, each issue has been designed colored, it does not matter if you decide to go black and white. What is really important is that you print everything borderless unless it says the contrary. Sometimes, it is possible that your printer may require an extra configuration to print without borders. It may be, perhaps, something related to paper orientation or layout. However, you know your printer better than anyone else. Just keep an eye on the document preview.

Flyer (big and small)

As mentioned above, the handbook should be printed on A4 paper. Although most issues have been designed in color, printing them in black and white is perfectly fine. The most important thing is to print everything borderless, unless otherwise indicated. Depending on your printer, this may require some additional configuration, usually related to paper size, orientation, margins, or layout. Every printer behaves a little differently, and you probably know yours better than anyone else. Just make sure to check the print preview carefully before printing.

Map

This artifact is also printed on a full borderless A4 sheet of paper. Regarding the format, the difference between this piece and the Handbook is how they are folded. Meanwhile, the Handbook is divided into eight A7 sections, and the map must be folded into 16 A8 sections.  

Special number: Landscaping pavements

This issue experiments with a different folding format. Although it starts with an A4 sheet of paper and keeps the original A7 form when folded, the assembly process changes dramatically. The most notorious of those changes is the design of a small, foldable gallery that makes use of various paper cuts.