Showing posts with label Construction Blackstone. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Construction Blackstone. Show all posts

Thursday, 17 February 2022

Private View Invitation - John Eskenazi

John Eskenazi is one of the most internationally respected dealers in Indian, Gandharan, Himalayan and South-east Asian works of art. He is also a specialist in collectors' carpets and textiles.

This is the invitation to view the latest acquisitions.
Click on images to enlarge
The invitations are A5, portrait and are particularly thick and prestigious having been mounted onto our Construction Blackstone 1500microns, making the total thickness nearly 2mm.
The invitations have been printed on an HP Indigo digital press and this is interesting as it's the first time that I have seen a genuine duotone (just two colours) printed on an HP Indigo, rather than out of four colours
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://john-eskenazi.com/
http://www.sylpheditions.com/
www.zonegraphics.co.uk
Posted by Justin Hobson 17.02.2022

Thursday, 2 July 2020

Jobs from the past - Number 128

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 this publication is from 2000. 

My Ford Mondeo - Sardinia 2000
This very industrial looking notebook was produced for the Ford Motor Company by Imagination, who have worked for Ford for many years and still do. This notebook was presented to participants of a Ford Mondeo symposium held on the beautiful island of Sardinia.
The book has a deliberately "workshop manual" feel. Size is A5 (148x210mm) Landscape and is wire-o-bound with a silver wire. The covers are produced on our Construction Blackstone 1500mics and the 60pp text is printed on Neptune Unique 170gsm.
The text is printed CMYK throughout and the text in this particular edition is in Hungarian!
The cover is silkscreen printed in three colours, silver, white and dark grey.
If you aren't familiar with Construction Blackstone, it is what is often described as a "millboard". It is produced on a board machine which makes up the board using wet layers of fibres, which is similar to the way Greyboard is produced, but this is not a Greyboard! This is a hard, dense, 100% recycled board with extraordinary rigidity and stiffness. It has a dark grey colour and a very hard surface. The below image shows the recycled, flecky nature of the surface with the Ford logo silkscreened in silver on the outside back cover.
The below image shows a detail of the wiro and the 1.5mm thick covers.
Concept and design is by Imagination. The print, silkscreen and wire-o-binding is by Gavin Martin with Phil Le Monde handling the project ...back in the days when they were based in West Norwood!

https://imagination.com/
https://www.gavinmartincolournet.co.uk/
Posted by Justin Hobson 02.07.2020

Tuesday, 10 November 2015

John Eskenazi Invitations

John Eskenazi is one of the most internationally respected dealers in Indian, Gandharan, Himalayan and South-east Asian works of art. He is also a specialist in collectors' carpets and textiles.

This is the invitation to view the latest acquisitions.
Click on images to enlarge
The invitations are A5, portrait and are particularly thick and prestigious having been mounted onto our Construction Blackstone 1500microns, making the total thickness nearly 2mm.
The invitations have been printed on an HP Indigo digital press and this is interesting as it's the first time that I have seen a genuine duotone (just two colours) printed on an HP Indigo, rather than out of four colours
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.

www.john-eskenazi.net
http://www.sylpheditions.com/
www.zonegraphics.co.uk
Posted by Justin Hobson 10.11.2015