Monday 25 March 2024
Bamboo Paper
Wednesday 13 December 2023
Made by Shannon
Here is a lovely selection of cards from Made by Shannon...
This greeting card publishers is run by a lovely lady called Shannon and they are based in Surrey. The below card is printed on our CRUSH Grape 250gsmClick on images to enlarge |
The A6 cards are printed and hot foil blocked in-house, where they have letterpress and a 1980's hot foil blocker which is used on cards and envelopes. However, they also sometimes just hand apply gold leaf as you can in the small embellishment below.The above SIXTEEN TODAY card is printed on our Colorset Storm 270gsm. The beautifully hot foiled envelopes are made using Colorset Storm 120gsm....which also have a superb embossing on the flap:At this time of year, personalised Christmas cards are in great demand and below is an example printed on our CRUSH Kiwi 250gsm.
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Wednesday 13 September 2023
SUMO - up to 3mm thick!
SUMO is our a heavyweight, thick board manufactured by FAVINI in Italy. It is available in black and white and the consists of 1mm, 1.5mm, 2mm up to a whopping 3mm thick ...seriously chunky! Originally just in Black and White, the range has now been extended to include a small range of colours - five shades all available in 1mm thick and below is the new lighter weight swatch...
Thanks to the dyeing process, the colour distribution is consistent throughout to give excellent results especially when the edge is visible. The finest quality makes Sumo perform excellently for invitations, tags, covers, business cards, luxury POS material and high-end packaging.
The SUMO range is FSC certified. Below shows the five new shades, all available in 1mm thick.
If you would like samples, please drop me an email: justin@fennerpaper.co.uk
https://www.favini.com/gs/en/products/sumo/
Friday 18 August 2023
Crush for Christmas Crackers!
Luisa Vicinanza-Bedi only started learning how to make bean to bar chocolate in 2017. Since then she has established her own shop Luisa's Vegan Chocolates based in Sneinton Market, Nottingham and has a strong online presence. Luisa has also picked up a handful of awards at the Academy of Chocolate including ‘UK Rising Star’ in 2019.
Photographs courtesy of Luisa's Vegan Chocolates |
Photographs courtesy of Luisa's Vegan Chocolates |
Photographs courtesy of Luisa's Vegan Chocolates |
Friday 14 July 2023
Orange Peel
Thursday 30 March 2023
Remake
If you aren't familiar with our REMAKE range from Favini, read on...
This paper really is unique as it is made partly using the discarded residue of the leather manufacturing process and is a revolutionary example of ‘upcycling’.
The dictionary definition of ‘upcycling’ is to reuse discarded objects or materials in such a way as to create a product of higher quality or value than the origin. Remake is leather ‘upcycling’ on an industrial scale and represents the latest frontier in upcycling in the paper sector. This unique and innovative paper replaces 25% of wood tree pulp with leather residues.Click on images to enlarge |
Click on images to enlarge |
Favini have also produced an "inspiration booklet" titled Up-Cycling. The book shows different print examples, including foiling, silkscreen, offset printing etc...
Favini won the top award at the European Recycling Awards in 2017. The awards are organised by the European Paper Recycling Council (EPRC) and the ceremony was held at the European Parliament in Brussels!
If you would like a swatch or print booklet, email me: Justin@fennerpaper.co.uk
Wednesday 15 March 2023
Business Cards for Stefano Marinaz
These are the most beautiful and beautifully produced business cards I have ever had the privilege to write about on this blog!
Stefano Marinaz appointed Mercer Design for a brand refresh, part of which was the design of new business cards, which as many people now identify are the most important piece of print that most businesses produce.
I shall let the words of Stefano Marinaz explain...
If you know me you must also know how keen on plants I am. My passion for the natural world and understanding of plants started when I was very young sharing some special moments with my grandfather in the glass house, he was growing vegetables to be sold in the shop. More than 70 years ago he started a business in Trieste, Italy, where he was selling seeds and plants to professional and amateur growers. As the business developed further my father and my mum became part of “Marinaz Agraria e Giardinaggio” and after almost 40 years of work they managed to expand the company by selling, throughout Italy and abroad, seeds, plants, gardening tools, machinery and everything else that can assist professionals and amateurs in the gardens and in the fields. The seeds have been the core business of my family since the beginning and I am personally fascinated by their beauty and by the fact they are able to generate new life and endless possibilities for us as human beings as well as in my case for designers. Sometime it is important to see things with a closer look and this is why I have chosen the beautiful pictures by Robert Llewellyn to be part of my new business cards.
I selected nine seeds which I found very interesting mainly in relation to the plants they develop. It has been a very enjoyable design process with the fantastic team of Mercer Design
These gilt edged business cards are printed four colour process one side (seed images) and one colour on the face and are also hot foil blocked on the face in a bronze foil (Foilco Ref: 6732). The gilt edging is in a matching bronze colour.
You may be thinking that these 1mm thick cards are duplexed ...but you'd be wrong! They are printed on our Sumo 1mm thick board - so how are they printed I hear you ask? - they are printed flat bed, offset litho by a very clever company called Avenue Litho, based in Hackney, East London.
One of the reasons that this solution was chosen because the client wanted to avoid the card being 'bendy' which is characteristic of duplexed boards. Because Sumo is 'mill laminated' (a process that uses a lot of pressure and very little glue) the moisture balance is not interfered with, which is why the sheet maintains the correct moisture balance and therefore remains flat.
Tuesday 20 September 2022
L&W Appartments
Quality of the singer sewing is superb
Design is by Ignite, who are based in Hoxton Square in London. You can read more about the project here. Print is by Gavin Martin.
https://longandwaterson.com/
http://ignitetv.com/
https://www.gavinmartin.co.uk/
Monday 29 August 2022
Photo quality on Astralux
Friday 26 August 2022
Notorie
Thank you to Donna at Notorie for sending some notebooks for us to see for ourselves.https://www.notorie.co.uk/