Direction board · rev. 04
Pale Harbour
A spring line built from salt-bleached canvas, oxidised copper and the exact orange of a harbour buoy at four in the afternoon.
Assembled 12 March · 9 references · 4 material leads · Owner: M. Ferreira
Ref A-01
Buoy paint, chipped to three layers. Source of the vermilion.
Type lead
Palette · locked
Four notes, no fifth
Vermilion carries every accent. Everything else recedes.
Ref A-02
Oxidised copper cleat, six winters old.
“Nothing in the collection should look newer than the dock it was photographed on.”
Materials · shortlist
Four leads
- 12oz dry canvas — Porto mill, undyed, 6wk lead
- Waxed cotton — reproofed, matte finish only
- Recycled brass — hardware, unlacquered so it patinas
- Corozo nut — buttons, dyed in two tones
Ref A-03
Chalked hull number stencil — the source of our figure set.
Figures
Milestones
Route to sample
- Direction sign-off
- 18 Mar
- Material orders
- 26 Mar
- First proto
- 14 May
- Photo test
- 02 Jun
- Line freeze
- 29 Jun
Board 07 supersedes Board 05. Board 06 was voided.
Voice
Plain, salted, unhurried
Copy runs short. We describe what a thing is made of before we describe how it feels. No superlatives, no season-of-the-soul language, no exclamation marks anywhere in the campaign.
Say: “Waxed cotton, reproofed by hand.” Don’t say: “A love letter to the sea.”