Colorset has 49 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!

A few years ago we launched 350gsm, so we now have ALL Colorset shades in 120gsm, 270gsm and 350gsm - all in B1 size (700x1000mm). 

A few years ago we further developed the range with 9 new colours...

...and more recently we added another dozen shades to make 49 shades in total plus white (so it's 50 really!)

The new shades include 7 shades made using Virgin fibre (due to the dye take up) and these are Blush, Warm White, Glacier, Hopsack, Charcoal, Spearmint and Aubergine, all marked with an asterisk in the swatch

...so there you have it, a range with 49 colours including TEN 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 02.10.25

Going Public: International Art Collectors in Sheffield.

Comprising five exhibitions and an international summit, Going Public brought an array of outstanding twentieth century and contemporary art to sites across the city of Sheffield last year. The shows ranged from a focused exhibition on Marcel Duchamp, to a survey of leading contemporary Chinese artists, and a presentation at Sheffield Cathedral including Jake and Dinos Chapman.

The project draws on collections from four leading art patrons: Nicolas Cattelain (London), Dominique and Sylvain Levy (dslcollection, Paris), Egidio Marzona (Berlin) and Patrizia Sandretto Re Rebaudengo (Turin).

This is the literature to accompany the project....

The main catalogue is an A5 (210x148mm) portrait format and is saddle stitched. It has a 4pp cover on our Colorset Deep Orange 120gsm (Colorset is 100% Recycled). There is a bound in 8pp section which is printed on a house gloss coated paper (I don't know which one) and this is untrimmed, so left folded at the top - see pic below- so you have to fold it up to reveal the images....

The Colorset cover featuring four die cut circles from the brand identity. Printed on an HP Indigo press using white ink which looks great against the deep orange.

The 28pp text is printed on our Redeem 100% Recycled 80gsm, which combined with the 120gsm cover giving it a nice floppy feel.The paper is uncoated with a neutral white shade giving the publication a feel which really works with the images and most importantly, the pages which are purely type.

A survey of leading contemporary Chinese artists, including Cao Fei, Yang Jiechang, Jiang Zhi, and Zhou Tao drawn from the DSL collection formed part of the project.

An interesting feature is that the booklet has a square spine, even though it is saddle stitched. This is a development by a company called Watkiss and their Spinemaster machine. For certain jobs it is a perfect way of getting a sqaure spine without having to glue bind.

The accompanying 4pp invite is on Redeem 100% Recycled 315gsm. Size is A6, portrait and is also digitally printed on the HP Indigo.

...and the summit booklet (below) is also A6 format. 4pp cover on Redeem 100% Recycled 315gsm with a 4pp text on Redeem 100% Recycled 130gsm, saddle stiched.

The identity for the project is by Dust, a multidisciplinary design collective based in Sheffield, founded by Patrick Walker. Designer of this literature is Ashleigh Armitage.

Print is by ASAP Digital who are also based in Sheffield.

You can read more about the project here: http://du.st/articles/going-public/

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Posted by Justin Hobson 27.09.2016