Jobs from the past - Number 40

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 2002.

Crafts Council Desk Calendar 2002
This desk calendar for the Crafts Council was produced using a form of modified CD Jewel case which was a popular in the 1990's and early 2000's. Not only was it a fairly cost effective way of producing a calendar - because of it's size and didn't require any binding - but it fitted with envelope and packaging sizes for easy mailing and distribution.

Now what has made this calendar different from many run of the mill calendars, is that the cover sheet was "heat debossed" and hot foil blocked in metallic silver on our Flockage Litho. As I hope you'll be able to see from the image below (click to enlarge) the Flockage debosses beautifully, leaving a perfectly flat area and leaving all the detail of the fine serifs incorporated in the gorgeous logo (designed by Pentagram, lettercut by Tom Perkins in Joanna).

The individual monthly date cards were just litho printed on one side and had a generic overlay (printed on polyprop) with punched out holes allowing the dates to show through together with the corresponding days of the week on the overlay.

Individual cards all printed on Neptune Unique SoftWhite 250gsm.

Design is by Chris Turnbull and Steve Johnson at design partnership Johnson Turnbull. Chris and Steve have since gone their seperate ways, but Chris now runs Clerkenwell based design studio, Turnbull Grey.

The excellent print and hot foiling and de-bossing is by Benwell Sebard.

www.craftscouncil.org.uk
www.turnbullgrey.co.uk
www.benwellsebard.co.uk

Posted by Justin Hobson 01.02.2013

A touch of Sunshine!

Here's a lovely identity for Spring-time!

This is an identity for a laser cutting company based in south London called "Cut Laser Cut". The identity has been based around two geometric shapes and our Colorset Solar which is a very bright (almost fluorescent) yellow.

The brand encompasses everything from signage to interior, but is all based around this vibrant yellow.

 Even the files follow the colour scheme...

Below are the business cards (on Colorset Solar, 270gsm) - and if you enlarge the pic you can see the semi circle which is hot foil blocked with a gloss clear foil.

Design is by Linda Byrne at Alphabetical Order. Printed literature was produced by Furnival Press and foiling was by Benwell Sebard. Ed Reeve photographed the images.

...and I recommend having a look at the CLC (Cut Laser Cut) website, they laser cut into some amazing materials: http://www.cutlasercut.com/

http://www.alphabetical-order.co.uk/
http://www.editphoto.net/
http://www.furnivalpress.co.uk/
http://www.benwell.co.uk/

Posted by Justin 14.04.2011

we made this

Alistair Hall from "we made this" has just sent me pics of his new set of stationery and he's dead chuffed with it. The business card is foiled with matt silver foil on our Kapok 500gsm board and the comp slips and letterhead are on Episode IV, 115gsm (100% recycled)

And this lovely pic below shows the depth and clarity of the deboss (but on a white material)
Foiling and printing was done by Benwell Sebard (London)

All looks very, very smart ...thank you Alistair.

http://www.wemadethis.co.uk/

http://www.benwells.co.uk/