Summer Club Cocktails

Dirty Martini  is an exclusive chain of seven London cocktail bars. As their name might suggest, they have a bespoke range of Martinis and signature cocktails.

The bars all have glamorous interiors and some of London’s best DJs regularly perform live sets at the bars.

This is the Summer Cocktails menu offering five exclusive and reasonably priced cocktails. The summer promotion is called Summerclub.

The simple 4pp menu is very simply printed in one colour, offset litho on our Stardream Gold 285gsm. Size is 160x90mm, portrait. Stardream is a mica coated board with a pearlescent/metallic finish.

Very kindly, Jason Maclaren at Cantate sent me file copies. I asked him to write a couple of paragraphs to explain the project...

"My client wanted to promote a drinks promotion and had no idea what paper to use, initially the brief was an ‘orange’ look, with black foil and a short text section. After looking at various finishes, combined with the problems in procuring material held at a paper mill in Italy (a 7 day delay) it was finally settled to use a more cost effective material called Stardream Gold, held in the UK by Fenner Paper ...and almost 60% cheaper than an alternative board from Bavaria!

A simple choice of paper adds gravitas to an important brand, this brand has used exquisite papers / finishes for its main menu. Having used fully oxidising inks, the sheets were movable 24 hours later allowing delivery 24 hours after this, in time for the launch. Having a knowledge of papers available, combined with simple planning, and simple technical research enabled a fast turnaround. It proves that relationships with your paper suppliers helps you to provide a solution for your clients."   Jason Maclaren, Cantate 

This is a project which is simple, from an "ink on paper" point of view has been well creased - something that is often overlooked. As you can see from the image below, a nice crisp well creased fold.

 

Print is by Cantate, a division of the John Good Group and thanks to Jason Maclaren at Cantate for sending me file copies and for his insight into the reasons for using this board.

http://dirtymartini.uk.com/

http://www.cantatecommunications.com/
http://www.cordenons.co.uk/

Posted by Justin Hobson 14.07.2015

Guardian News & Media 2014 sustainability report

This is the printed summary of the Guardian News & Media sustainability report. The whole 2014 report is available online http://www.theguardian.com/sustainability but this is the printed report produced to give out to staff and partners.

The size of the report is 148mm square, saddle stitched and has a 4pp cover and 16pp text. The publication is printed on our Shiro Echo, Bright White which is 100% recycled and also carries FSC certification.

The report is beautifully illustrated by Laurent Cilluffo.

http://www.laurentcilluffo.com/

Design is by the in-house design team at The Guardian. Production handled by Leon Abrahams.

Print is by Cantate, a division of the John Good Group and thanks to Jason Maclaren at Cantate for sending me file copies.

www.theguardian.com/sustainability
http://www.laurentcilluffo.com/
http://www.cantatecommunications.com/

Posted by Justin Hobson 11.11..2014

Guardian News & Media sustainability report

This is the printed summary of the Guardian News & Media sustainability report. The whole report is available online http://www.theguardian.com/sustainability but this report is printed to give out to staff and partners.

The size of the report is 148mm square, saddle stitched and has a 4pp cover and 16pp text. The publication is printed on our Shiro Echo, White (200gsm and 120gsm) which is 100% recycled and also carries FSC certification.

  

 



Detail of illustration

The report is beautifully illustrated by Laurent Cilluffo, superbly evocative artworks make this a really special piece of literature.

http://www.laurentcilluffo.com/

The design, typography, illustrations and the paper choice combine to male this a truly engaging piece of literature.

Design is by the in-house design team at The Guardian. Production handled by Leon Abrahams.

Print is by Cantate, a division of the John Good Group and thanks to Jason Maclaren at Cantate for sending me file copies.

www.theguardian.com/sustainability
http://www.laurentcilluffo.com/
http://www.cantatecommunications.com/

Posted by Justin Hobson 06.05.2014

Relish the Rib-Tone!

This is a lovely set of menu literature developed for "destination" restaurant, RELISH at the new Radisson Edwardian in Guildford.

Relish's ‘best of British' philosophy makes the most of their fresh produce. Ingredients are honest, of exceptional quality and always in season and the restaurant design, materials, layout and literature have been developed to reflect this.



Our Rib-Tone 2 sided 340gsm which has a natural brown shade and feint rib, was chosen to produce the menus, wine list, cards and bill holder wallets. The identity was printed in three colours, silver, black and a special brown. The wine list and menus are A4 size in a 4pp format, the cards are 85x55mm and the bill holder wallets are A5 portrait with a simple glued pocket.

Art direction for Relish is by Scott Wittman of the Gorgeous Group. The artwork production is by Suzanna Reed of Reedesigns.

Print was handled by Jason Maclaren at Cantate  ...and a couple of extra points worth noting about this project from a printing point of view:   The silver used in the image (wire around jar) is printed in high lustre base silver (www.color-logic.com) which has given an excellent, truly metallic result. The other thing is that the board has been sealed with an "Aquaseal" which is a watermissable triseal varnish, which although not making a noticeable difference to the surface of the paper, will offer some protection against fingermarking in the restaurant environment - good thinking!
...all in all, it's just the perfect choice of material.

www.relish-guildford.com
www.gorgeousgroup.com
www.reedesigns.co.uk
www.cantate.biz

Posted by Justin Hobson 21.02.2012

Big Questions...

At the end of last year, King’s College London launched a worldwide development campaign with a sub-brand developed by Johnson Banks called "World questions King's answers".

Rather than the traditional donations campaign, this project poses a series of questions that the world faces, such as How do we cope with an ever-ageing population? What will it take to eradicate poverty? Why can’t we find better treatments for cancer?

The campaign aims to raise funds for new posts and programmes, build new facilities and create new student opportunities across the campuses. Johnson Banks developed a multi-channel campaign, including a booklet, leaflets and gift forms (and they also did a very nice badge!) 

The main booklet is A6 portrait (105x148mm) with a 4pp cover and 16pp text, saddle stitched. Because of the vibrant colours chosen, the material chosen for the job is Omnia (280gsm and 120gsm) which meant that a vibrant punchy result was achieved...

The printed literature demonstrates a well executed project, excellent print and reproduction and finishing on what on the face of it looks to be quite a simple job. But what you might not have spotted is that those white borders around the edge of the solids is only 5mm - you only have to be 1mm out on the finishing on this A6 size piece, for this job to look poor and the copies sent to me are all spot on. Print is by Cantate in Battersea and thanks to Jason Maclaren at Cantate for sending me file copies.

http://www.kcl.ac.uk/
http://www.johnsonbanks.co.uk/
http://www.cantate.biz/

Posted by Justin Hobson 07.02.2011