Wei Ligang

Michael Goedhuis specialises in the best contemporary Asian and Western art. Their collection includes painting, sculpture, ink painting, bronzes and antiquities. They also represent contemporary artists and this brochure is for one such Chinese artist - Wei Ligang.

The size of the publication is 265x216mm, portrait with three hole sewn binding. It has a 4pp cover with 120mm flaps printed on our Colorset (100% Recycled) Dark Grey 270gsm and a 28pp text printed on Gardapat 13 Bianka 150gsm.

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For readers not familiar with GardaPat 13, it's a fully coated paper but it really does have a dead flat MATT surface. There are many papers on the market which profess to be matt - some which incorporate the word matt in the name, but aren't! Apart from the high quality matt surface, this paper has an extraordinarily high bulk - this 150gsm text with a thickness of nearly 200mics. If you would like to read more about the bulk, you can read it here.


Centre spread...

Detail image showing the exceptional reproduction and three hole sewing...

The text is digitally printed using an HP Indigo digital press and the results are superb, beautifully showing the artworks. As many readers will know, many materials have to be "Sapphire Treated" to work successfully on HP Indigo presses, however this project has been printed without sapphire treatment.

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The 28pp text flows nicely in the hand, feeling substantial but not overly heavy.

Detail of the three hole sewing on the spine......

Detail of the hot foil blocking on the outside front cover.

Design and Art Direction is by Ornan Rotem at Sylph Editions.

Printing and the terrific finishing - which was all achieved in house is by Zone Graphics, based in Paddock Wood in Kent.

https://www.michaelgoedhuis.com/
http://www.sylpheditions.com/
www.zonegraphics.co.uk

Posted by Justin Hobson 15.10.209

Caroline Baker Folder

Caroline Baker is a company offering property development and family office services. This folder compliments the other literature including the sales and credentials brochure that I've written about before. The folder is printed on one of our new Colorset shades - Charcoal in 350gsm.

The size of the folder is 310x220mm, portrait and has one glued pocket on the inside back cover. It is just simply and beautifully hot foil blocked on the outside front and back covers.

The pocket is an angled 110mm high pocket with corner cuts so that a business card can be inserted.

The below image shows the folder opened on the front and reverse...

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The below image shows the quality of the matrix crease. A simple job like this relies on the quality of materials, foiling and finishing, making the difference between an OK job and an excellent job.

 

Print and hot foiling is by Identity Print, based in Paddock Wood with Paul Martin handling the project.

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

Posted by Justin Hobson 23.09.2019



Jobs from the past - Number 119

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. 

Fourth Estate Catalogue 
July-December 2002
   

The Fourth Estate is a publishers that many people will be familiar with. Founded by Victoria Barnsley in 1984, Fourth Estate built a reputation as one of the most innovative and eclectic imprints in the industry, with a reputation for publishing a wide variety of critically-acclaimed and beautifully-produced titles including many prize winning authors (Booker, Orange etc).

One of the things that made the Fourth Estate stand out from the crowd was their catalogues - they were simply amazing pieces of design and print! I was lucky enough to work on a few different catalogues in the late 90's and early 2000's. Every single one was different and brilliant. Good designers were commissioned, Bogue & Hopgood, Instinct, Pentagram, Rose Design, Frost, Neville Brody, Tom Hingston to name a few. In line with their reputation for publishing unconventional yet innovative titles, the design of the catalogue was equally eclectic.

This is a particularly distinctive catalogue, printed in just one colour - white onto a black paper and board...

The effect of printing it onto black paper, means that the edge is a solid black and the white silkscreen ink looks really white and jumps off the page. Below shows the black edge.

The design and art direction is by Vince Frost with the superb illustrations by Marion Deuchars. This is a very special project where the creative direction, excellent execution of the images and high production values all come together.

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The size of the book is 225x160mm, portrait. It has an 8pp cover and a 72pp text. The 8pp cover has full width flaps (148mm wide) which you can see in this birsdseye image here...

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It is printed on our Colorset Nero (100% Recycled) 270gsm and 120gsm. Some of the pages towards the back of the publication are just listings, which again are superbly printed given that it is silkscreen ink, which cannot print as finely as litho.

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 Detail showing the quality of the type reproduction:

 The spine measures 7mm...

 The 120gsm text weight flows really nicely...



Design and art direction is by Vince Frost. Illustrations by Marion Deuchars. The print production was undertaken by Lauren Displays in Ayelsford in Kent and they made a superb job of it.

 

So, where is everybody now?....

Victoria Barnsley, founder of Fourth Estate, joined Harper Collins as CEO and Publisher in 2000 when it acquired her company, leaving in 2013.

 

The silkscreen printer, Lauren Displays, have been taken over and are now part of the DS Smith Group.

Marion Deuchars is a very popular illustrator and works through the Heart Agency in London.

Vince Frost left for the sunnier climate of Australia around eighteen years ago and runs Frost* in Sydney.

...and Fenner Paper? ...yep, we're still here!

http://www.4thestate.co.uk/

http://www.harpercollins.co.uk/about-harpercollins/Imprints/4th_Estate/Pages/4th_Estate.aspx

http://www.frostdesign.com.au/

Posted by Justin Hobson 02.08.2019

The Burlington Arcade

The Burlington Arcade in London dates back to 1819. Designed by Samuel Ware “for the sale of jewellery and fancy articles of fashionable demand, for the gratification of the public.” It was commissioned by Lord George Cavendish, Earl of Burlington and owner of the adjacent Burlington House, as a safe place for his wife and other genteel folk to shop. Today it continues that tradition, with a host of luxury shops.

"Just the cover makes the difference" is a phrase I've used many times on this blog about many projects where the cover "makes the difference" and this is just one of those projects. The cover is printed on one of our new Colorset shades - Charcoal in 350gsm.

Brochure size is 240x170mm, portrait. The outside cover is simply (but beautifully) hot foil blocked in a rose gold metallic foil - Foilco Ref 6037

There are some really nice features to this project. Firstly the brochure is encased in a bespoke envelope (250x180mm) made from the same material as the cover and is also hot foil blocked on the outside and a beautiful touch is the foiling on the inside of the flap. Quite an extensive area to foil but the Foilco Foil (6037) looks superb...

Another quality element is the three hole sewn binding, which is superbly done and holds the 16pp text securely in place. Identity Printers actually do this at their in-house bindery.

...and on the inside front and back covers the Burlington monogram is hot foil blocked in clear foil.

Detail showing the monogram

Just look at the precision of the scoring on the outside flap of the envelope. It gives the whole project a wonderful, quality feel.

Print and hot foiling is by Identity Print, based in Paddock Wood with Paul Martin handling the project.

https://www.burlingtonarcade.com/
http://www.identityprint.co.uk/
http://www.foilco.co.uk/

Posted by Justin Hobson 21.06.2019

Caroline Baker

Just the cover makes the difference! I've written on this blog about many projects where the cover "makes the difference" and this is just one of those projects.

Caroline Baker is a company offering property development and family office services and this is a sales and credentials brochure. The cover is printed on one of our new Colorset shades - Charcoal in 350gsm.

Brochure size is 240x170mm, portrait. The outside cover is simply (but beautifully) hot foil blocked in matt white foil.

The inside front and back cover is also hot foil blocked in gloss clear foil.

Another quality element is the three hole sewn binding, which is superbly done and which Identity Printers actually do in-house.

Print and hot foiling is by Identity Print, based in Paddock Wood with Paul Martin handling the project.

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

Posted by Justin Hobson 21.03.2019

Colorset for every month of the year

The Absolute group are specialist manufacturers and printers of Luxury Packaging, Gifting, Trims and Wovens, Invitations, Fashion Lookbooks etc. Based in East London, their tagline is FIRST WE LISTEN, THEN WE MAKE....

 

I received this lovely 2019 calendar which they produced in house. The size is 113x164mm, plus a 12mm tab. 

The calendar is produced on our Colorset 100% Recycled 350gsm board in the shades of Sandstone, Natural, Ash and Light Grey, which is a great colour pallet.

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Each of the cards is duplexed, with a different colour on the reverse, so each of the cards is a 700gsm thick card. The below image shows the reverse of the cards...

Below image shows the detail of the duplexed edge

The calendar is printed in just one colour (a special green) - a perfect example of the impact of just using one colour.

https://www.theabsolute.co.uk/

Posted by Justin Hobson 23.01.2019