Jimmy Choo AW 2016 Invitation

This is a very luxurious looking invitation to the launch of the Autumn/Winter collection for luxury fashion brand Jimmy Choo. The 4pp Invitation is 148x110mm, portrait and is made using our Flockage Colours 400gsm in Bordeaux. 

For those of you which are not familiar with this product, it is a flocked board which feels like a velvety cloth/material to the touch. It also takes hot foil blocking exceptionally well as the heat, softens the fibres allowing the foil to bed down nicely in the flock. 

Flockage is a one sided material - in the case of the Bordeaux, it has a coloured flock face and a Bordeaux coloured board reverse. For this project the board has been duplexed, bonding the two board faces together and creating an 800gsm board with flock on both sides - and most importantly, the edge is still a Bordeaux colour.

On the inside front cover of the invitation, a mirror is affixed, so you catch your thrilled reaction at having received the invitation! The gold tinted mirror is a piece of 3mm acrylic mounted onto the Flockage surface. The hot foil blocking is in a deep crimson shade.

As you will be able to see from the image below, the material has a twin parallel creased spine to allow for the thickness of the mirror, which works superbly. 

Art direction and design is by the 'in house' studio at Jimmy Choo and the designer on the project is Sinnie Chong. All aspects of production, including the duplexing, hot foil blocking and sourcing and mounting of the mirror was overseen by David Blakeman at Identity Print based in Paddock Wood - also worth pointing out that they are one of the few printers to have hot foil blocking 'in house'!

 

http://www.jimmychoo.com/en/search?cgid=collection-autumnwinter

http://www.jimmychoo.com/

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

Posted by Justin Hobson 26.07.2016

Royal Ascot Festival Guide

188 Bet is an international betting website based in the Isle of Man. They cover sporting events and also offer casino, poker and bingo online. As an online company, they rarely commit to paper, but for the occasion of Royal Ascot, they produced this festival guide for their customers, which also included some exclusive offers.

The outer folder is hot foil blocked in metallic copper foil with the company logo and is printed on Colorset Natural 270gsm

...which folds out to a 6pp folder like so:

The middle panel has a tipped on page which is printed on the same material as the booklet. On the right hand side there is an open sided pocket, with logo shaped die cut, which holds the booklet in place. Here is the booklet out of the pocket:

The booklet is 140mm square, it has a 4pp cover on Colorset Natural 270gsm, which is hot foil blocked to match the folder.

Inside is a 16pp text which is printed on our Stardream, Crystal 120gsm. Stardream has a pearlescent finish, which when printed on makes the whole image pearlescent.

...hopefully you can just about see the reflective pearlescent effect on the below image:

The brochure was produced and printed by Herts and Essex printers who are based in Hertford. The text is actually digitally printed on their Nexpress - which interestingly can print up to a size of 340x905mm.

https://www.ascot.co.uk/Royal-Ascot
https://www.188bet.co.uk/en-gb/
chris@hertsessexprinters.com

Posted by Justin Hobson 22.07.2016

Archive

Archive Homestore and Kitchen is a design-led lifestyle store offering a unique and fresh collection of interesting and beautiful homewares, stationery, bits and pieces for children, food and drink. The outlet is located in a former military arch space in Ramsgate’s Royal Harbour. Archive particularly showcases and champions Kent’s designers, makers, growers and producers and they also do amazing lunches and lots of cake.

BOB  Design named this Kentish treasure trove and created its visual identity — an arch housing all forms of form and all forms of fun ...and this is where the paper comes in! the swing tags, price tickets, cards and menu sheets are all printed on our Plexus 350gsm, which is a rich, recycled, brown coloured board.

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 They have all been silkscreen printed by Harvey Lloyd Screenprint, who have made a beautiful job of printing the many different vibrant and mainly fluorescent, colours.

Transformation of the space is by Haptic, a firm of Architects who have appeared on this blog many times before. Bob Design applied the identity throughout the interior and across print and web and you can see more on this link: http://bobdesign.co.uk/work/archive-homestore-kitchen/

Design is by BOB Design in London. Creative Director is Mireille Burkhardt. Print is by Harvey Lloyd Screenprint.

http://archivehomestore.co.uk/
http://www.hapticarchitects.co.uk/
http://www.bobdesign.co.uk/
http://harveylloydscreens.co.uk/

Posted by Justin Hobson 15.07.2016

SWD - Design for the Arts

SWD is a graphic design company based in Holborn London. They have a wide and varied client base and their work covers an extensive range of disciplines. This piece of literature is one of a series of promotional pieces - and this one is particularly aimed at 'Design for the Arts' where they have  broad experience.

Printed offset Litho in CMYK plus a special pale green. It's printed on Omnia 120gsm, which gives it a lovely tactile feel but the images have reproduced superbly. Finished size of the piece is 140mm square.

Folding out to 420mm...

and out again...

to reveal the centre spread - an image promoting The Rabbit Hole at the Hampstead Theatre.

Below image shows the reverse of the mailer.

Design is of course by SWD, Creative Director is Shaun Webb. Printing is by Chadbon Printing based in London.

http://www.swd.uk.com/
chris.chadbon@btinternet.com

Posted by Justin Hobson 12.07.2016

High Five Friday!

Here is a card from a range of greeting cards called Thefty from London based card publisher Roger La Borde. This is a 4pp card printed offset litho in two colours and I thought it was important to write about this card as it has been further embellished with the addition of thermography on the front of the card.

The size of the card is 147x100mm, which is what Roger la Borde describe as their Petite size. the card is printed on Shiro Echo, Bright White 300gsm, which is 100% recycled and has FSC Mix accreditation.

I wasn't able to catch the thermography in both colours (black and green) against the light with my unsophisticated camera equipment (!) so I've shot the thermo'd areas individually, as you can see below:

I have written about thermography before, so if you are interested to find out about the process, please click on the following link: http://justinsamazingworldatfennerpaper.blogspot.co.uk/2014/02/what-is-number-2.html

The cards are published by Roger la Borde and the design is by Helena Maratheftis.

The cards are printed by Lion House Press who are in West London and the thermography is by Graphite Creative who are based in St Albans.

http://www.rogerlaborde.com/

Posted by Justin Hobson 08.07.2016

Jobs from the past - Number 81

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 here's one from 2005. 

Levi's Vintage Clothing

Spring & Summer 2005 

 

Over 125 years after the birth of the Blue Jean in 1873, Levi Strauss & Co established the Levi's Vintage Clothing sub-brand; resurrecting the past by creating exact reproductions of original jeanswear from the 130 year old design archives. Based around authentic pieces, denim garments are made in the US from historic quality XX selvage denim from original narrow looms.

This is the skilfully crafted lookbook for the range. It is a 'pocket book' size of 180x125mm, portrait and is an 'unfussy' self cover. There are 28pp and it's saddle stitched.

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The lookbook is printed offset litho in CMYK on our Redeem 100% Recycled 130gsm which is a neutral white shade giving the publication a genuinely vintage look and feel, However, as you'll see if you click on the images, the reproduction of the images stands up superbly.

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To give you a sense of scale, the book is pictured below with a couple of everyday items. As I mentioned, it's a handy 'pocket size' but looking at the pictures it's easy to imagine this was an A4 or over size project.

Art direction and design is by a studio called the Kitchen, who were based in Margaret St, London W1. According to my notes, the creative directors and designers who were there at the time were Phil Evans, Phil Sims, Ramon Marin and Mat Jones. Sadly the studio disappeared in the mid 2000's. Photography is by Jason Tozer.

The outstanding printing is by Push Print based in Rotherhithe, London - and as I often say about these 'jobs from the past', it looks a good and fresh today as it did 11 years ago.

...and as if to prove that it stands the test of time, even though this is a job from 2005 which itself is about vintage clothing, the Levi's Vintage Clothing range is still available!
http://www.levi.com/GB/en_GB/features/levis-vintage-clothing
http://www.push-print.com/

Posted by Justin Hobson 01.07.2016

Big Book Bonanza 2016

The Big Book Bonanza is the showcase of new books from Harper Collins and this is the bewitching invitation for the launch that was held this April at the Ham Yard Hotel.

The invitation is quite literally a gatefold! The delightfully lasercut gates are hinged over the inner invitation which is tipped onto the back panel of the main invite. 

Finished size of the invitation is 150x265mm with the inner card being 128x245mm. It is printed on Colorset Natural 350gsm (100% Recycled) throughout.

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Below shows the corner cuts where the inner card sits, holding it in place.

Below image shows outside back cover with the corner slits.

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The reproduction on the Colorset Natural is bright and vivid, the colours really lifting off the page.

The lasercut gates are wonderfully crisp and really set this invitation off.

Art direction and design is by London based studio, Design by St. Creative Partners are Steve Fenn and Tom Pollard. The excellent print and production is by Hampshire based Senator Press.

www.harpercollins.co.uk
http://www.designbyst.com/

Posted by Justin Hobson 29.06.2016

Thesis InForm

Following on from my visit to CSM last week, a publication arrived in the post today which accompanies a student led symposium and exhibition titled 'Thesis InForm’ at the LCC. The exhibition provides an opportunity for students to develop their research and writing into an exhibition outcome and runs concurrently to the year end main show at LCC. Works selected are from a panel of Contextual & Theoretical Studies and course tutors based on mentored proposals.  

The finished size is A4 (297x210mm) portrait folding out to an A2 size 594x420mm and is printed offset litho in one pantone colour (solid green) on the outside and two colours, fluorescent green and silver on the inside.

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The paper chosen is our lightweight Offenbach Bible 60gsm, which feels beautifully light but retaining a quality feel, flopping and rolling in the hand. The printing of the solid colour is superb.

Below image shows fully folded out broadsheet/poster with the image below being the inside printed in two colours

Design is by Giorgio Marani and Tom Greenhill. Editing and production is by Andrew Slatter (Senior Lecturer Contextual & Theoretical Studies). The publication is expertly printed 'in house' at the LCC at the Elephant and Castle by Litho technician Tony Yard - the print result is truly exquisite, especially given the limitations of the equipment at the LCC. My thanks to Andrew for sending me copies.

www.thesisinform.wordpress.com
www.arts.ac.uk/lcc

Posted by Justin Hobson 27.06.2016