Amelia's "Drawn to Joy"

Last Thursday, I was invited to Amelia Magazine's little Christmas soiree hosted at eclectic fashion retailer, JOY in Brick Lane. This was combined with a book signing of her last book "Amelia's Compendium of Fashion Illustration". Drinks were supplied by Adnams and cakes by Molly Bakes.

Amelia Gregory is the founder of the magazine which published (on paper) ten issues over five years and became an independent publishing phoenomenon. Writing about fashion, music, art, photography, illustration and a whole host of other subjects, the publication built a popular following. We at Fenner Paper supplied most of the paper used for the magazines, printed by Principal Colour.  Amelia published her last printed magazine publication about four years ago in favour of concentrating her efforts on the website, blogging and twitter with great success and she also now has a beautiful baby.

Lovely cakes and Adnams ginger beer (alchoholic) ...very nice!

I met several interesting people including illustrator Emma Block (pictured) who makes many of her illustrations out of different papers, often printed paper pieces - they are really beautiful and cleverly put together. Emma is currently working on a children's book.
www.emmablock.co.uk

I also met Michelle Urvall Nyren, an illustrator who is establishing her own fashion range called Ever Reve.
http://www.everreve.com/

It was a lovely evening and great to see that Amelia's Magazine is continuing to go from strength to strength.

www.joythestore.com
http://www.ameliasmagazine.com/
http://www.principalcolour.co.uk/

Posted by Justin Hobson 10.12.2012

Other blogs...

It's always nice when you see projects that you've been involved with on someone else's blog - and here's one of those instances!

Paddock Wood based printer, Principal Colour have recently started their blog (they also twitter and facebook which is way more advanced than me!)

 Illustration by Kellie Black

(Above is the lovely illustration by Kellie Black (http://www.misspearlgrey.com/) of Martin and Alan, the two founders of Principal Colour. The illustration was commissioned to celebrate the launch of the last book for amelia's magazine)
Anyway, one of their very first posts is about paper and the coated/uncoated debate. It shows Amelia's Magazine (with a scratch and sniff cover! - on our Omnia) ....I shan't say anymore, otherwise you won't want to read their post:

http://principalcolour.tumblr.com/post/11948257268/coated-or-uncoated-paper

Posted by Justin Hobson 27.10.2011

Amelia's Compendium of Fashion Illustration

Amelia Gregory is founder, writer, publisher, photographer, reviewer, designer, art director  (...in fact just about every job you can think of) of what has become known as an independent publishing  phenomenon - Amelia's Magazine.

Fenner Paper supplied most of the paper used over the five years and ten issues that were produced and it was always a pleasure working on each issue as the publications had the highest production values - one even using Swarovski crystals mounted onto the cover!  Amelia published her last printed magazine publication about two years ago in favour of concentrating her efforts on the website, blogging and twitter with great success! ...the Amelia's Magazine website has again been voted into the top 25 Arts and Culture blogs by Creative Tourist.

The good news is (for us and for you) that paper hasn't been completely shelved! Last year she published Amelias Anthology of Illustration Magazine which is a 264pp compendium of illustration, interviews, articles and reviews - in fact Amelia has billed it as "a book to inspire creativity in the climate of change". It is a lovely book and still available on her website. I should also mention that it's printed on our Marazion Ultra 135gsm.

And now she is in the throes of producing Amelia's Compendium of Fashion Illustration - or ACOFI as she has affectionately termed it on twitter.

It has been 'on press' all last week down at the printers, Principal Colour in Paddock Wood in Kent and here are some pics of the proof sheets that Amelia took with her iphone as she went through them.

It's printed on a special making (which is an 'ex-mill' item only) of an uncoated paper with a good bulk, high opacity and whiteness, called Tallistag Hi-Bulk in 100gsm and as you can see from the pics above, the colours have worked really well, very vibrant.

The proofs do look really great and you can order your copy of ACOFI on line - for Christmas delivery and make all her hard work worth it!
http://www.ameliasmagazine.com/
http://www.principalcolour.co.uk/

Posted by Justin Hobson 06.12.2010