Showing posts with label Shiro Echo. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Shiro Echo. Show all posts

Thursday 18 January 2024

CC3

Founded by British Fashion Designer Patrick Grant, Community Clothing is a social enterprise with a simple mission - to make excellent quality affordable clothes for men and women, to create great jobs for skilled workers and by doing this help to restore real pride in Britain’s textile communities. They do this by working with under utilised UK factories during their quiet periods. What a wonderful concept.
This is Community Clothing's lookbook and catalogue and it is an absolutely superb publication, wonderful art direction, photography and printing.
 
The size is 330x230mm, portrait and is a 32pp self cover which flops and rolls really nicely in the hand....
The publication is printed on our Shiro Echo, White 90gsm which is 100% Recycled and also carries the FSC Recycled classification.

Shiro Echo is available in two shades; there is a white shade (which is a natural/off white) with a newspapery looks and feel and a Bright White shade too.
Centre spread is a map showing the locations in the UK where the factories are located.
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 Solids look excellent
Below is a detail image which shows the excellent image quality - note the excellent fleshtone reproduction.
Very nicely finished too as you can see from the wire stitching
Design is by Moving Brands. Printing is by Principal Colour. A really superb piece of design and print.

https://communityclothing.co.uk/
https://www.movingbrands.com/
https://www.principalcolour.co.uk/
Posted by Justin Hobson 18.01.2024

Tuesday 24 October 2023

Book of I

The Book of I is a notebook style publication produced for Accenture. It is an internal publication for employees to note their personal development. Size is 210x137mm portrait with a 4pp cover and 128pp text and is section sewn, the spine is 10mm thick. On the outside cover it is simply printed and blind embossed on an embossed cover from that well known "Hull-based" paper merchant!
Being an internal publication, it isn't appropriate to show you the inside text pages, suffice it to say the job is printed offset litho in just one colour with the majority of pages are just printed as lines...
...or squares
...or dots
 [Please excuse my fingers appearing]

The below image shows the very neatly sewn sections.
The 128pp text is printed on Shiro Echo, Bright White 120gsm, which is our 100% recycled paper with FSC accreditation.

Print and hot foiling is by Identity Print, based in Paddock Wood with Paul Martin handling the project.

https://www.identityprint.co.uk/
Posted by Justin Hobson 24.10.2023

Friday 1 September 2023

Jobs from the past - Number 166

Regular followers of this blog will know that my first post of every month is a "job from the past" so that I can show some of the really good work from years gone by and this one is from 2014...

Guardian News & Media sustainability report 2014
This is the printed summary of the Guardian News & Media sustainability report. The whole 2014 report was available online
 but this is the printed report produced to give out to staff and partners.
The size of the report is 148mm square, saddle stitched and has a 4pp cover and 16pp text. The publication is printed on our Shiro Echo, Bright White which is 100% recycled and also carries FSC certification.
The report is beautifully illustrated by Laurent Cilluffo.
http://www.laurentcilluffo.com/
Design is by the in-house design team at The Guardian. Production was handled by Leon Abrahams.

Print is by Cantate, a division of the John Good  and was handled by Jason Maclaren.

http://www.laurentcilluffo.com/
https://www.johngood.com/

Posted by Justin Hobson 01.09.2023

Wednesday 17 May 2023

Regent Porto Montenegro

Penthouse Floorplans

Porto Montenegro is being developed as the Mediterranean’s most comprehensive yacht marina. Along with the berths, there are five private residential buildings with a total of 228 apartments.

These are the floorplans for the Penthouses which form part of the collateral produced for the marina. The flat size is 525x750mm folding down to 175x250mm.
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The plans are concertina folded as you can see from the birds eye view below:
Folding out to the full flat size of 525x750mm (18pp)
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The floorplans are printed on our Shiro Echo, White 80gsm which 100% recycled and FSC accredited. It is perfect as a material to print these plans on - almost conjuring up a "blue-print" type feel and rattle, They are printed offset litho and are hot foil blocked in metallic gold foil. Below is a detail of the foiling:
Another thing to note is the absence of a "crows foot" on the folds - this is because it was concertina folded. As you can see from the image below - nice clean, crisp folds and no ugly creasing.
You can read more about "Crow's feet" here:
http://justinsamazingworldatfennerpaper.blogspot.co.uk/2014/04/what-is-number-4.html

The floorplans are just one of the items in the pack of promotional literature which makes up a whole collection of collateral (below) for the exclusive Regent Porto Montenegro apartments.
Art direction and design is by London branding agency &Smith. Creative Directors are Rachel Smith and Dan Bernstein. Print and production is by Gavin Martin.

https://www.portomontenegro.com/
https://andsmithdesign.com/
https://www.gavinmartin.co.uk/
Posted by Justin Hobson 17.11.2023

Wednesday 5 April 2023

Jobs from the past - Number 161

Regular followers of this blog will know that my first post of every month is a "job from the past" so that I can show some of the really good work from years gone by and this one is from 2013...

Guardian News & Media sustainability report 2013

This is the printed summary of the Guardian News & Media sustainability report. The whole report is available online http://www.theguardian.com/sustainability but this report is printed to give out to staff and partners.
The size of the report is 148mm square, saddle stitched and has a 4pp cover and 16pp text. The publication is printed on our Shiro Echo, White (200gsm and 120gsm) which is 100% recycled and also carries FSC certification.
  
 

Detail of illustration
The report is beautifully illustrated by Laurent Cilluffo, superbly evocative artworks make this a really special piece of literature.

http://www.laurentcilluffo.com/

The design, typography, illustrations and the paper choice combine to male this a truly engaging piece of literature.
Design is by the in-house design team at The Guardian. Production handled by Leon Abrahams.

Print is by Cantate, a division of the John Good Group and thanks to Jason Maclaren at Cantate for sending me file copies.
https://www.theguardian.com/sustainability
http://www.laurentcilluffo.com/
Posted by Justin Hobson 05.04.2023

Friday 26 August 2022

Notorie

Notorie is a new stationery company that began with one thought... "what if we made a notebook that not only looks good but made you feel good? We're on a mission to prove that recycled is beautiful and we've created 20 unique notebooks to prove it."
Made using 100% recycled paper and eco-friendly inks, the notebooks are environmentally conscious at their heart and as you can see, a real feast for the eyes!
The cover and text are both printed on our Shiro Echo, White which is 100% Recycled and manufactured by Favini. The notebooks are A5 (210x148mm) size, portrait format and are wiro-bound using an antique copper wire...
The covers are digitally printed on Shiro Echo Bright White 300gsm duplexed to 600gsm, which as you can see from the image above, makes an excellent thick cover.

Text is litho printed on Shiro Echo White 100gsm. There's not a lot for me to tell you about the text pages, except to say that there are 140pages, which are ruled - in fact the colour of the rules is wonderfully quirky... it's a sort of mustard/terracotta colour.
Notorie is based in Kent and all the printing, collation and biding is produced locally in the county. They are a lovely set of notebooks and will enhance any desk! 
Thank you to Donna at Notorie for sending some notebooks for us to see for ourselves.
https://www.notorie.co.uk/
Posted by Justin Hobson 26.08.2022

Monday 30 May 2022

Malone Souliers x Bridgerton

Netflix and Shondaland - the media company behind “Bridgerton” - have partnered with the footwear brand, Malone Souliers. The result is an exclusive 14-piece collaboration of sumptuous shoes which reference the period as well as characters from the show. The Creative Director and Founder of Malone Souliers is Mary Alice Malone.
This tabloid size promotional piece is 430 x 285mm, portrait and was printed in February for the launch in March.
It is 16pp and is printed on our Shiro Echo White (100% Recycled) 100gsm, giving the publication a deliberately newsy feel, however the reproduction is far from a newsprint, as I'm sure you can see from the detail image below...
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It is a superbly designed and printed publication which flops and folds in the hand beautifully...
It is loose bound, no staples, just folded as you can see in the image below.
Outside back cover...
Art direction and design is by Assembly. Print production is by Roy Killen.

Posted by Justin Hobson 30.05.2022