Paul Smith - Spring/Summer

The Paul Smith brand (and person) has become synonymous with classic British tailoring and style. Renowned for well-made, good quality, simple cut clothing with interesting fabrics which is easy to wear. There is often a splash of vibrant colour, a floral print or the signature multi-coloured stripes. Paul Smith now has 15 shops and concessions in the UK and 200 shops worldwide with the business still based where it was founded, in Nottingham.

This is the lookbook for the Spring Summer collection. The finished size is A5 (210x148mm) portrait and it is a 16pp 'closed double gatefold' making the flat size 210x880mm.

..opening out to this spread:

...and then this one:

The below image showing both sides of the publication, fully open:

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It is printed in CMYK offset litho on our Omnia, White FSC 280gsm and is printed and finished beautifully. Birds eye view below:

The material chosen is our Omnia 280gsm which gives it that dead matt, tactile feel but with great reproduction.

...and here's the plug for the paper!  - As you can see from these images, there is lots of colour and images with CMYK dark areas - loads of ink going down and it looks great on the Omnia, reproducing bright vibrant colours, whilst retaining detail in the dark areas (in my opinion- but I would say that wouldn't I?) See the detail in the bag image below

Although this is a simply produced publication, it's often the simple jobs which don't get the attention to detail. This is well creased and folded square which is just perfect

Creative direction and design is by the in-house design team at Paul Smith. Printing is by Leicester based Greenshires with Richard Dalby handling the project. Beautifully printed and finished - a really well produced piece. 

www.paulsmith.co.uk
http://www.greenshires.com/

Posted by Justin Hobson 27.02.2016

Bookmark it.

Museums and Galleries is a publisher and producer of greeting cards, stationery and gifts. They specialise in producing items from the world of fine art and publish cards and other items from the V&A, other London museums and galleries and the Wedgewood archive.

These bookmarks are from a series produced from work by illustrator Faye Buckingham. Size is 160x48mm, punched with a hand tied ribbon.

Printed offset litho in CMYK, the bookmarks are printed on ZETA Linen, Brilliant white 350gsm which is duplexed with Matrisse 350gsm.

Below shows the detail of the linen embossing.

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http://www.museumsgalleries.co.uk/

http://www.advocate-art.com/artist.faye-buckingham

Posted by Justin Hobson 24.02.2017

This is not a hotel

This is the catalogue for the recent show (Nov - Jan 17) at the Yoshii Gallery in Madison Avenue, New York.“This is not a hotel.” is a solo exhibition of new works by Irish artist Guggi who is now regarded as one of the most accomplished and recognized painters in Ireland. This fully illustrated catalogue also features an essay by Irish film director Jim Sheridan.

The size of the catalogue is 205mm square. It has a 4pp cover plus 56pp of text. It has an 8pp "book-jacket" which wraps around the cover pages and the binding is three hole sewing.

The 8pp "jacket" is printed on Crush, Almond 120gsm and the first and last 8pp are on Crush Kiwi 120gsm. Below is the essay by Jim Sheridan:

If you aren't familiar with Crush, it is one of our ranges made by FAVINI in Italy and is made using 15% residues from the industrial processing of agricultural processing. As a result, the paper does have inclusions and a "rustic" feel, which you might just be able to see from the image detail below:

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All images in the 40pp section showing the work of the artist are printed on a matt coated 115gsm paper. Printed CMYK offset litho throughout.

The catalogue comes in a contrasting, capacity envelope, also made using Crush Kiwi but this time in 250gsm.

...there are a couple of really wonderful details to point out. Firstly is the "Disc & String" closure on the capacity envelope, with black thread:

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...and the three hole sewn binding in a natural colour thread.

You can read more about the exhibition here:
http://yoshiigallery.com/exhibition/guggi-this-is-not-a-hotel

Design of the catalogue is by Joshua Shaddock. Print and the wonderful and detailed finishing is by Push in London.

http://yoshiigallery.com/
http://www.guggi.com/
http://www.push-print.com/

Posted by Justin Hobson 20.02.2017

Edinburgh Napier University 2017 Prospectus

Edinburgh Napier University is home to over 19,500 students from over 140 countries. Established in 1964, Napier now boasts six specialist schools, each an impressive institution in its own right, with world-class facilities, academics, researchers and international links.

 

This article is about the nine individual prospectuses they have produced for the 2017 academic year, each one for a separate school or course selection and each of these books is very special indeed!

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...as each of the books has a section with all the course information printed on a different colour of our Colorset 100% Recycled text, as you can see from the images below:

The books are all 235x165mm, which is an economical format on a B1 press using B1 size paper. They are portrait and are perfect bound. The prospectuses vary in pages from 50pp up to 82pp using a mixture of 115gsm uncoated offset paper printed litho in CMYK and Colorset in one colour litho (black)

Computing - Colorset Lemon

Engineering & the Built Environment - Colorset Lime

Criminology, Psycology & Law - Colorset Light Grey



Tourism - Colorset Mango

Business & Languages - Colorset Acquamarine

Arts & Media - Colorset Solar



Design - Colorset Pink Ice

Health & Social Care - Colorset Light Blue

Life & Sport Sciences - Colorset Spring Green

So what we have here is a really special collection of prospectus books. The self coloured text pages make each individual book clear and engaging - giving power and clarity to the text.

The books are all perfect bound (it's not possible to section sew with the variables in the quantity of pages)

Art direction and design is by the Marketing, Brand and Communication Department at Edinburgh Napier University.

Print and production is by J. Thomson Colour Printers in Glasgow and they have made a superb job of both the print and finishing.

http://www.jtcp.co.uk/

http://www.napier.ac.uk/

Posted by Justin Hobson 15.02.2017

Coast Lookbook SS|16

Established in 1996, Coast is one of the leading occasionwear brands for women. Coast now boasts 52 stand-alone stores with 184 concessions and 46 international stores. This is the lookbook forSpring Summer last year and is a really superb piece of literature

The cover is printed on our Astralux board - this is a one sided 'Cast Coated' board which means it has a high gloss surface and an uncoated reverse. The outside cover is completely unprinted and features just the most amazingly executed blind emboss - see the detail below:

The cover is printed on Astralux [1 sided] 350gsm. Size of the publication is 240x170mm (which is an economical size to be printed on a B2/B1 size press). The below image shows the inside front cover printed on the uncoated side of the Astralux opposite page one of text, which is all printed on Omnia.

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The text material chosen was our Omnia, which would beautifully reproduce the photography with the delicate patterns and dark colours superbly - without forgetting the fleshtones ...and it looks wonderful! The 42pp text is on Omnia White 150gsm, printed offset litho in CMYK throughout.

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There are four translucent paper section dividers throughout the publication, printed offset litho in one colour on Spectral, White 130gsm.

Image reproduction is paramount but it was also important that the publication also projected the tactility of the clothes and in the image above and below the detail of the handbag and the extraordinary reproduction of the metallic gold. An ordinary feeling silk or gloss coated paper wasn't an option, so Omnia fitted the bill perfectly.

Omnia is a very bulky paper, so even though it is only 42pp, the Omnia 150gsm gives it a 5mm spine thickness. With most publications of this quality, they are section sewn, however because of the 'tip ins' on the translucent, this book is perfect bound. Below is a close up showing the spine and end of the book:

Another impressive detail is on the outside back cover which is neatly embossed in type which can be no larger than twelve point and which you can see from the image below is beautifully executed - great attention to detail.

Art direction and design is by Coast. Printing, neat embossing and careful finishing is by Identity Print based in Paddock Wood.

http://www.coast-stores.com/

http://www.identityprint.co.uk/

Posted by Justin Hobson 09.02.2017