Independent Paper Show - today!

The Independent Paper Show

Wed/June 11th: 2pm – 6pm + Networking drinks (6pm – 8pm)

Thurs/ June 12th: 12pm – 5pm

Register your place here:

https://papershow.co.uk/

At CRYPT ON THE GREEN,

CLERKENWELL, LONDON, EC1R OEA

Posted by Justin Hobson 11.06.2025

 

Independent Paper Show 2025

Fenner Paper is cordially inviting you to the second Independent Paper Show to be held in London and if you have received one of these amazing invitations, you'll appreciate just how special they are!

The Independent
 Paper Show is coming to London again. The second London edition of the IPS will be presented in the Crypt on the Green and all are welcome (whether you received this amazing invitation or not!)

The invitation is contained in this beautifully finished box, which is 245 x 190 x 17mm.

There is a 6pp concertina invitation 195 x 150mm with multiple finishing effects, too numerous to list here...

The Independent Paper Show is presented by three Swiss companies who founded the original Swiss  show: Bubu, Lorenz Boegli and Sonderegger, and the London show has been brought to the UK in partnership with Foilco. There will be lots of other paper companies there too (it's not just us!)

The event is on Wednesday, June 12th 1pm until 8pm and Thursday, June 13th 10am until 5pm at the Crypt on the Green
 St. James’s Church,
 Clerkenwell
 London EC1R 0EA . 

You can read more about it on their website.. To attend, you just need to register on the event website: https://papershow.co.uk/

We hope to see you there - where you will be able to see a copy of this amazing invitation.

Posted by Justin Hobson 29.05.2025

Save the date!

The Independent
 Paper Show is coming to town! Yes, this June in Clerkenwell, the second London edition of the IPS will be presented in the Crypt on the Green and all are welcome.

Presented by three Swiss companies who founded the original show: Bubu, Lorenz Boegli and Sonderegger, the London show has been brought to the UK in partnership with Foilco.

These superb 'Save the Date' cards have been sent out in the post and you may have received one already!

The event is on Wednesday, June 11th 2pm until 8pm and Thursday, June 12th 12pm until 5pm at the Crypt on the Green
 St. James’s Church,
 Clerkenwell
 London EC1R 0EA . You can read more about it on their website.

To attend, you just need to register on the website: https://papershow.co.uk/

We hope to see you there!

Posted by Justin Hobson 28.04.2025

VIP Preview

This is the beautifully produced invitation for the VIP preview of  thePaddington Square development in west London held at the Chiltern Firehouse.

Size of the invitation is 215mm square and looks stunning.

The square on the front of the invitation is hot foil blocked in Rainbow SHLR from Foilco and the type printed in "Just Black 700" which is one of Foilco’s most popular pigment foils and has a Gloss finish.

The invitation is printed on SUMO, which is our a heavyweight, thick board manufactured by FAVINI in Italy. It is available in black and white and the consists of 1mm, 1.5mm, 2mm up to a whopping 3mm thick ...seriously chunky! Last year, the range was extended to include a small range of colours - five new shades all available in 1mm thick.

This invitation is produced on Sumo, White 2mm thick, which is really substantial and the result is absolutely dead FLAT - unlike the risky business with duplexing boards together which can result in a warped finish...

The hot foil stamping looks superb, sinking into the thick board and giving a wonderful, tactile, quality. 

Design is by property marketing specialists Wordsearch. Designer on the project is Ana Iugulescu and the artworker is Alex Shannon. Printing is by Trident Printing in London.

https://paddingtonsquare.co.uk/

https://www.wordsearch.co.uk/

Posted by Justin Hobson 23.12.2024

Sorry Paper...

Last week, the Independent Paper Show came to London. On Wednesday and Thursday the Crypt on the Green in Clerkenwell was packed full of companies showing all the best and latest in paper, printing and finishing. The IPS London show has been brought to the UK and is hosted by Foilco in partnership with the  three Swiss companies who originally founded the show: Bubu, Lorenz Boegli and Sonderegger.

I hope these images will give you a flavour of the event...

We are very pleased with our stand where we had a minature tree with scrunched balls of paper, following the event's theme of "sorry paper..."

Our friends from the Reflex paper mill in Germany were on a stand next door to us, showing their label papers, superbly demonstrated on bottles of beer!

...and Reflex were giving away copies of the wonderful Euro24 wallchart printed on Zeta Hammer, Brilliant 120gsm.

Below is Lorenz Boegli giving a talk about screenprinting and about his inventing his revolutionary technique to print RGB

Below are the stands of the original founders of the show: Bubu, Lorenz Boegli and Sonderegger.

As well as the three original founders,and Foilco there were stands from Antalis, Dreyer Kliche, Fedrigoni, GF Smith, James Cropper, Manifattura Del Seveso, Mondi, Procop, Reflex Paper, Slater Harrison, Winter & Co. 

It was a really worthwhile event, absolutely packed for most of the time and was amazingly well organised by Foilco. Hopefully this will become a regular event in the calendar. Our thanks to everyone that participated but especially to Foilco.

https://papershow.ch/

Posted by Justin Hobson 17.06.2024

Independent Paper Show 2024 - London

Fenner Paper is cordially inviting you to the inaugural Independent Paper Show to be held in London and if you have received one of these amazing invitations, you'll appreciate just how special they are!

Click on images to enlarge

The Independent
 Paper Show is coming to London. This June, the first ever London edition of the IPS will be presented in the Crypt on the Green and all are welcome (whether you received this amazing invitation or not!)

The invitation is contained in this beautifully finished box, which is 245 x 190 x 17mm.

Click on images to enlarge

With the letter is the 8pp concertina invitation 195 x 150mm with multiple finishing effects, too numerous to list here...

The Independent Paper Show is presented by three Swiss companies who founded the original Swiss  show: Bubu, Lorenz Boegli and Sonderegger, and the London show has been brought to the UK in partnership with Foilco. There will be lots of other paper companies there too (it's not just us!)

The event is on Wednesday, June 12th 1pm until 8pm and Thursday, June 13th 10am until 5pm at the Crypt on the Green
 St. James’s Church,
 Clerkenwell
 London EC1R 0EA . 

You can read more about it on their website.. To attend, you just need to register on the event website: https://papershow.ch/ 

We hope to see you there - where you will be able to see a copy of this amazing invitation.

Posted by Justin Hobson 28.05.2024

Save the Date!

The Independent
 Paper Show is coming to town! Yes, this June in Clerkenwell, the first ever London edition of the IPS will be presented in the Crypt on the Green and all are welcome.

Presented by three Swiss companies who founded the original show: Bubu, Lorenz Boegli and Sonderegger, the London show has been brought to the UK in partnership with Foilco.

These superb 'Save the Date' cards have been sent out in the post and you may have received one already!

The event is on Wednesday, June 12th 1pm until 8pm and Thursday, June 13th 10am until 5pm at the Crypt on the Green
 St. James’s Church,
 Clerkenwell
 London EC1R 0EA . You can read more about it on their website.

To attend, you just need to register on the website: https://papershow.ch/ 

We hope to see you there!

Posted by Justin Hobson 25.04.2024

Business Cards for Stefano Marinaz

From its London base, the Stefano Marinaz Landscape Architecture studio works alongside international architects and designers on projects ranging from small private gardens to larger landscapes, and historical restorations to installations for garden festivals.

These are the most beautiful and beautifully produced business cards I have ever had the privilege to write about on this blog!

Stefano Marinaz appointed Mercer Design for a brand refresh, part of which was the design of new business cards, which as many people now identify are the most important piece of print that most businesses produce.

I shall let the words of Stefano Marinaz explain...
If you know me you must also know how keen on plants I am. My passion for the natural world and understanding of plants started when I was very young sharing some special moments with my grandfather in the glass house, he was growing vegetables to be sold in the shop. More than 70 years ago he started a business in Trieste, Italy, where he was selling seeds and plants to professional and amateur growers. As the business developed further my father and my mum became part of “Marinaz Agraria e Giardinaggio” and after almost 40 years of work they managed to expand the company by selling, throughout Italy and abroad, seeds, plants, gardening tools, machinery and everything else that can assist professionals and amateurs in the gardens and in the fields. The seeds have been the core business of my family since the beginning and I am personally fascinated by their beauty and by the fact they are able to generate new life and endless possibilities for us as human beings as well as in my case for designers. Sometime it is important to see things with a closer look and this is why I have chosen the beautiful pictures by Robert Llewellyn to be part of my new business cards.

I selected nine seeds which I found very interesting mainly in relation to the plants they develop. It has been a very enjoyable design process with the fantastic team of Mercer Design

These gilt edged business cards are printed four colour process one side (seed images) and one colour on the face and are also hot foil blocked on the face in a bronze foil (Foilco Ref: 6732). The gilt edging is in a matching bronze colour.

You may be thinking that these 1mm thick cards are duplexed ...but you'd be wrong! They are printed on our Sumo 1mm thick board - so how are they printed I hear you ask? - they are printed flat bed, offset litho by a very clever company called Avenue Litho, based in Hackney, East London.

One of the reasons that this solution was chosen because the client wanted to avoid the card being 'bendy' which is characteristic of duplexed boards. Because Sumo is 'mill laminated' (a process that uses a lot of pressure and very little glue) the moisture balance is not interfered with, which is why the sheet maintains the correct moisture balance and therefore remains flat.

https://www.stefanomarinaz.com/

https://www.mercerdesign.com/

https://www.avenuelitho.com/

https://www.robertllewellyn.com/

Posted by Justin Hobson 15.03.2023

Thank you...

IST Printing are Hot Foil Blocking and Embossing specialists. Based in Glasgow, IST is run by Ian Stopford and he has a real passion for foiling and the finest print finishes. His work for clients based all over the country has appeared many times on this blog before.

Ian has just printed these 'Thank You' cards to send out with completed orders...

The cards are A6, Landscape (105x148mm) and are printed on our Shiro Echo 100% Recycled in Raw Grey and Raw Sand 350gsm.

Click on images to enlarge

The front of the card is hot foil blocked and embossed. On the reverse of the card, the details of the reorder number and the stock and foil type used...

You can see the detail of the superb embossing here...

Click on images to enlarge

Below you can see the wonderful hot foil blocking, which is using Foilco Black 7067NAB, which is a smudge resist foil. 

Dies are made by Metallic Elephant.

My thanks to Ian for sending me file copies and I know he is working on other items which he says he will send me...

https://www.istprinting.com/

Posted by Justin Hobson 21.09.2021

VIP Preview invitation

Paddington Square is the highly anticipated development in west London which will revitalise the area and also feature a new icon for the London skyline by Renzo Piano Building Workshop.

This is the beautifully produced invitation for the VIP preview held at the Chiltern Firehouse last November.

Size of the invitation is 215mm square and looks stunning.

The square on the front of the invitation is hot foil blocked in Rainbow SHLR from Foilco and the type printed in "Just Black 700" which is one of Foilco’s most popular pigment foils and has a Gloss finish.

The invitation is printed on SUMO, which is our a heavyweight, thick board manufactured by FAVINI in Italy. It is available in black and white and the consists of 1mm, 1.5mm, 2mm up to a whopping 3mm thick ...seriously chunky! Last year, the range was extended to include a small range of colours - five new shades all available in 1mm thick.

This invitation is produced on Sumo, White 2mm thick, which is really substantial and the result is absolutely dead FLAT - unlike the risky business with duplexing boards together which can result in a warped finish...

The hot foil stamping looks superb, sinking into the thick board and giving a wonderful, tactile, quality. 

Design is by property marketing specialists Wordsearch. Designer on the project is Ana Iugulescu and the artworker is Alex Shannon. Printing is by Trident Printing in London.

https://paddingtonsquare.co.uk/

https://www.wordsearch.co.uk/

https://tridentprinting.co.uk/

Posted by Justin Hobson 10.11.2020