Showing posts with label Colorset 100% Recycled. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Colorset 100% Recycled. Show all posts
Friday 16 April 2021
Paper leaves...
At present, there aren't many good news stories in retail, however today (yes, today!) the US fashion and lifestyle brand Anthropologie opened a new store in the ancient university city of Cambridge. Anthropologie was founded in Pennsylvania, in 1992 and now operates over 230 stores worldwide, 15 of which are in the UK.For the opening of the new store, the Anthropologie windows and interior of the store were dressed in bright Spring/Summer leaves which were all laser cut using Fenner Paper! We supplied a mixture of our Stardream (pearlescent board) and our Colorset 100% Recycled board - which were laser cut by Patternise and then hand assembled by Anthropologie’s window display team into these beautiful displays. The result is simply amazing - and plastic free!
The materials were chosen after testing the board for lasercutting at the studio. Patternise are based in Cranleigh, Surrey, specialising in creative design and laser-cutting services. They work with a wide range of clients across the UK - managing large volume projects for major corporates and visual merchandisers to smaller projects for individuals and weddings. Patternise use state of the art laser cutters and they specialise in cutting “clean” materials such as fine papers, cards, and plastics.Here are detail images of the leaves. The shapes are produced using their "super pulsed" Trotec galvo system (GS1000), which enables extremely high-speed laser cutting and high volume paper finishing. Using this system they are able to cut many 1000's of sheets within very quick time-frames, which would be impossible with conventional lasers.
https://www.anthropologie.com/
With thanks to the team at Anthropologie for the images and to Rob at Patternise for the technical information.
Posted by Justin Hobson 16.04.2021
Tuesday 13 April 2021
Charleston Press No. 3
Nestled in the South Downs, Charleston was the country meeting place for the writers, painters and thinkers known as the Bloomsbury group. Now run by the Charleston Trust, the house is an excellent museum and visitor attraction, presented to look as it did when the family lived there in the 1950's. The walled garden was created by the artists Vanessa Bell and Duncan Grant to designs by Roger Fry and features Mediterranean influences with plants chosen for their intense colour and silver foliage. These became the subject of many works over their long residence at Charleston.
Published by the Charleston Trust, the Charleston Press includes includes newly commissioned essays exploring the themes, artists and stories of the exhibitions and programmes at Charleston, as well as articles marking important Bloomsbury anniversaries and events. This is the third edition.Size is 220x170mm, portrait and is perfect bound. The publication has an 8pp 'dustjacket' around the cover as you can see from the birdseye image below...The below image shows the book (with the Colorset Mango cover) out of the dustjacket (100mm flaps) plus the wrap-around belly-band.The 4pp cover, which is secreted under the dustjacket, is produced on our Colorset Mango (100% Recycled) 270gsm and is unprinted, being simply, but beautifully, debossed.The 96pp text is printed offset litho on our Omnia 120gsm. Omnia was chosen because it would beautifully reproduce the wide variety of different media, the artworks, solid colours and dark photography and most importantly feel special - with the reproduction that you would expect on a silk or gloss but with a natural tactile uncoated feelThe majority of this issue is dedicated to articles about the Omega Workshops, based in Fitzroy Square, London in the early 20th Century. An exhibition about the Omega workshops was hosted in the galleries at Charleston.A chapter titled 'Shy radishes' shows some of the Charleston ceramics in use with superbly photographed still life images
The wrap around bellyband (70mm high) which tucks into the book, is printed on our Sixties 60gsm and because of the translucency, the background image shows through beautifully.Below image shows the 8mm spine, the perfect binding. The jacket is printed on Omnia 150gsm.The reproduction on the Omnia is just something else, the level of detail and reproduction is superb as you can see the image below.The publication is designed by Playne Design who have studios in London and Hastings. Creative Director is Clare Playne. Print production is by Pureprint. Like the first edition, this is an excellent example of a beautifully designed and well executed piece of print, entirely right for the subject. The publication is available for sale (at a very reasonable £5) HERE
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Posted by Justin Hobson 13.04.2021
Wednesday 24 February 2021
Mother's Day is coming...
Sunday 14th March is just around the corner, so there is no better time than to show you some lovely cards produced on our lovely paper!These handcrafted, embellished and personalised cards are produced on our Colorset, Natural 270gsm and the size is A5.
Our Colorset is 100% Recycled and the perfect board for these beautifully embellished with items hand mounted onto the cards The envelope is the star! ...a superb card needs to be accompanied with a lovely envelope and these matching bespoke C5 envelopes are made using Colorset Natural 120gsm.Bombus was originally established as the personalised map heart company, creating bespoke and emotive gifts and accessories featuring memories, favourite places and heartfelt messages. They find the right map, just for you: "it could be the place you met, your home, a first date, a holiday destination, where you were born… a map of anywhere in the world."
Above is an example of one of their handmade map cards but they also make a wide range of personalised map gifts. Everything is hand made in their studio which is located in an oast house in Kent and here is an excellent video showing their work...
..and remember, Mothers Day is just around the corner!
Posted by Justin Hobson 24.02.2021
Friday 12 February 2021
LCBA Gift Cards
Here are the lovely new gift cards for the London Centre for Book Arts (LCBA). The LCBA was set up in 2013 and is an open-access educational and resource centre dedicated to book arts based in Fish Island, Hackney.
Images courtesy of Studio Bergini |
These new gift cards are hot foil blocked in-house at the LCBA using our Colorset 100% Recycled board which has been triplexed.
Images courtesy of Studio Bergini |
Design is by Studio Bergini (Francesco Corsini & Kristian Hjorth Berge) and they look amazing. The below image shows the hot foiling block.
You can buy one of these wonderful new gift cards HERE.
Images courtesy of Studio Bergini |
Posted by Justin Hobson 12.02.2021
Friday 29 January 2021
Pantone colours for 2021
Pantone has named two colours as its colour of the year for 2021 - Ultimate Gray and Illuminating, an "optimistic" hue of yellow. Pantone believes that the pairing of shades will help people "fortify themselves with energy, clarity and hope" in a world that's set to face increasing uncertainty - sounds good to me!
...and it got me thinking that we had two pretty similar shades in out Colorset range - Lemon and Ash:
If you would like to see the range, just email me for a swatch - justin@fennerpaper.co.uk
...and they are also, both 100% recycled!
Our Colorset range has 36 shades, which you can read about HERE
Friday 30 October 2020
I Love Halloween...
Love Poppet is a card publisher based in the Kent countryside, just outside Canterbury. Established by Claire Vincent, Love Poppet specialises in bespoke papercut cards and this pumpkin delight is a wonderful card made using our Colorset 100% Recycled board. What better way for me to wish you all a happy Halloween...
The above image shows the inside of the paper Pumpkin card and is simply AMAZING!
The above image shows the outside including the clever stalk. It's hard to give the exact size as it is such an irregular shape, however it fits inside a C5 envelope.The card is made using our Colorset Mango 270gsm, which is a 100% recycled board and is a vibrant orange shade. Below shows the birdseye view which reveals the inner workings of the construction.The card is silkscreen printed in 3 colours.
You can see more of Claire's creations here and you can buy them on Not On The High Street and Etsy. With best wishes for a spooky and scary Halloween, especially in these strange times.
Posted by Justin Hobson 30.10.2020
Wednesday 28 October 2020
The new year starts here...
It might only be October, but the clever new 2020/2021 calendar from Healeys Printers starts now and runs through to December next year. This way you can look ahead and plan without the disruption of changing calendars in January - a very clever idea!Healeys are based in Ipswich and are one of a handful of printers who are registered as a 'Carbon Balanced Printer' by the World Land Trust and can offer a totally carbon balanced printing service including the paper and all aspects of production and delivery.
The desk calendar is wiro-bound onto a 'tent' card, as you can see below...
The size of each of the calendar leaves is 155x180mm and each month is printed on a different board - each is a recycled or environmentally friendly grade. Not all the papers used are from Fenner Paper, but we are fortunate enough to have our papers used for October (Shiro Alga Carta) January (Flora Anice) and February (Colorset Sandstone)The calendar incorporates many different printing and finishing processes, including Litho, digital, hot foiling, embossing with CMI Foiling producing the embossing and foiling techniques. On each page, there is information about the paper and the printing technique...
To receive one of these superb calendars, contact Healeys directly and I'm sure they will be happy to send you one ...but you'd better hurry! info@healeys-printers.co.uk
The desk calendar is wiro-bound onto a 'tent' card, as you can see below...
The size of each of the calendar leaves is 155x180mm and each month is printed on a different board - each is a recycled or environmentally friendly grade. Not all the papers used are from Fenner Paper, but we are fortunate enough to have our papers used for October (Shiro Alga Carta) January (Flora Anice) and February (Colorset Sandstone)The calendar incorporates many different printing and finishing processes, including Litho, digital, hot foiling, embossing with CMI Foiling producing the embossing and foiling techniques. On each page, there is information about the paper and the printing technique...
The calendar is designed and illustrated by Maze Media.
Posted by Justin Hobson 28.10.20
Tuesday 13 October 2020
Crush 03
Crush is a beer 'zine, which is an ongoing side project for design and branding studio O Street. The project allows the studio to combine a bunch of things they love: illustration, print, design and beer!
The focus of issue 3 is 'women in beer'. Historically, brewers were primarily women, until many were targeted as witches and this subject provides a rich seam of content for illustration ...perfect, as we are only a few weeks from Halloween!
The size of the zine is 297x105mm, portrait and is saddle stitched. There is a 4pp cover printed on our Colorset (100% Recycled) Amethyst 270gsm with a 32pp text on our Crush Corn 100gsm, which is made using 15% residues from the processing of corn plus recycled and FSC fibres. You can read about it here.
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The below image shows all the illustration spreads, all printed 2 colour Riso - SUPERB!
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Monday 21 September 2020
Colorset has 36 shades...
For those of you not familiar with Colorset, it is our range of coloured text and cover papers which is 100% recycled and more competitively priced than some other well known brands of coloured paper!
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A few years ago we started to bring in our Colorset range in 350gsm, so we now have ALL colours in 120gsm, 270gsm and 350gsm - all in B1 size (700x1000mm).
Two years ago we further developed the range with 8 new colours, making this a collection of 36 shades.
The new shades include five light shades and three deep shades. The new shades are Blush, Warm White*, Glacier, Storm, Hopsack*, Charcoal*, Spearmint* and Deep Blue (Note: four of the new shades with an asterisk* are virgin fibre)...so there you have it, a range with 36 colours including SEVEN greys!If you would like the updated swatch, please drop me an email and I'll pop one in the post
justin@fennerpaper.co.uk
Posted by Justin Hobson 21.09.2020
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