Today I went to visit a Sub Tropical Rainforest which forms part of the Springbrook National Park. It is an area of over 6,000 hectares and is strictly controlled and protected.
Today I popped in to the Tourist/visitors centre in "The Rocks" in Sydney to pick up some maps and was absolutely amazed to see a range of cards printed on our material in their shop for sale!
I've officially made my furthest ever visit ...to Sydney in Australia. Today I popped in to see Frost.
While I was in the studio I had some cookies which were baked in the studio for the Christmas treat!
And congratulations to Anthony, who was working as Creative Director in London last year, as he has recently become a proud father of a baby boy.
...just wanted to let you know that I've now packed up for Christmas and am flying to Australia with my family to see my brother and my Mum for Christmas on the beach!
This is an amazing job which just demonstrates how a highly creative concept, really well executed, can produce an excellent piece of literature.
The back section pages (plans) are below.
It has been superbly printed by Boss Print. Run was 500 copies.
http://www.ebbsfleetvalley.co.uk/
http://www.landsecurities.com/
www.paulgrundy.com
www.willerby-landscapes.co.uk
www.hat-trickdesign.co.uk
www.bossprint.com
Today, I received the latest edition of The Drawbridge. If you are familiar with this publication, then I imagine you'll stop reading now because you know how good it is and there won't be any point!
Marisa is pictured above behind an "invitation" to a private view for Per Una designed by Rare Creative printed on Flockage Colours which was one of the printed samples I was showing her in our office!
Which folds out to reveal this A3 size invitation...
and below is the reverse side [the bottom right panel is the front of the invitation, as picture 1 at top] 
It isn't often that I see pieces of work printed on paper which are genuinely three dimensional but this is certainly one of them.
Design is by Thompson Brand Partners based in Leeds. Creative directors Ian Thompson and Phil Dean worked on the project. 
The job was recently written about in an article about 3D paper projects in Grafik magazine, from which I've lifted this quote from Ian Thompson "The budget was rubbish, of course, so we set ourselves the challenge of making this happen with one sheet of paper only. The solution was a single, folded piece of paper which had a pop-up building inside which could be viewed from inside and out - no gluing, just folds and a couple of cuts"
The finished size is 155x295mm (landscape). The Job was printed on Neptune Unique 250gsm. It was printed in four colour process plus a special grey and three of the large letters were foiled in a gloss black. Unfortunately I can't remember/find out who the printer was that did the job (unless anyone out there knows differently...) It is a great job and has always been popular to show, so as you can probably see from the pictures, my last file copy is on it's last legs!
At this time, I had a colleague called Gary Nightingale based in Leeds, working with me at Fenner Paper and he was actually the person that dealt with this project. He now works for himself under the name Packaging Formats (gary@packagingformats.co.uk).
This week we visited a paper mill in Italy called Favini. It was quite a "whistlestop" tour but Chris (Fenner) and I hadn't been there for many years and it was time to become re-acquainted.
Favini have been developing some new products which will hopefully be introduced into the UK market next year. Chris Brown is the Sales and Marketing Director (pictured here) who was showing us around and I must also thank Antonella Agostini, Michele Posco and Caroline Wagner who looked after us very well and who made it a really interesting and enjoyable visit - thank you. 
I've just picked up some copies of this lovely brochure for a new design agency set up by art director Kuchar Swara.
The job was (very nicely) printed by Principal Colour.
Silkscreened in one colour on our Redeem 100% Recycled 315gsm.
Don't forget you would only have received one of these if you pre-ordered your copy of It's Nice That 2 ...so if you don't want to miss out next time, don't forget to pre-order!
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The first job that I recall being involved with was an invitation for PREEN by Thornton Bregazzi in 2005, printed on Redeem 100% Recycled 100gsm.
This casebound book has a 72pp text and is 250x350mm. It is printed on a combination of Omnia and a coated silk paper (not sure which one!) and has a fantastic quality about it.
...and here's one of the most beautiful and innovative pieces produced on our Flockage Litho. An invitation for Liberty to their Christmas viewing. It is totally unprinted on the flock side, just heat de-bossed [this is a process where you make a block as if for hot foil blocking, and using the foiling machine you simply de-boss using the combination of heat and pressure but with no foil. On the Flocked surface this has the effect of flattenning the pile, so that it becomes smooth and the effect is subtle yet very noticeable]
Anyway it was a fab party, thank you Mark and Chris. Unfortunately I only took a few party pics to share.
[Left] Here is Mark Thomson with Megan Simpkins from Gold East Paper.
Exhibition space at b-store with Studio Thomson exhibits:
...and a view through the window at b-store showing the books specially produced for the event.
www.studiothomson.com
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