Hamish Brown Photographs...

Hamish Brown is an award-winning photographer whose talent and style have secured him shoots worldwide for many of the top names in celebrity, music and sport. His photographs have graced the covers of British GQ, The Times Magazine, The Observer Magazine, The Telegraph, Men's Health and Vogue.

This is his amazing portfolio...

Front Cover...

Inside spread

The outside front cover is covered with an all over de-boss in type listing the names of his clients. The effect is fantastic.

Size of the brochure is 345 x 245mm, portrait, saddle stitched.

It has a 4pp cover on 200gsm and a 24pp text on 120gsm, all printed on our Omnia. For those readers not familiar with Omnia, it is an uncoated paper with a surface treatment. What this means is that it feels like an uncoated paper but because the surface treatment minimises 'dot-gain', the print result is much more like that of a coated silk or gloss coated paper.

The look and feel of the whole publication is very uncoated and tactile but there is absolutely no loss of detail in the images as you can see in the detail image below...

You are probably assuming that this quality piece of print is printed offset litho, but you would be wrong. This job is printed on a digital printing press - a Fujifilm Jet Press 720S. This (relatively) new B2 size digital press is a commercial inkjet printer, which has been built to produce high-quality short run to medium run digital print. Push Print in London installed the press three years ago and as you can see from the result on this job, it is producing the high quality print that Push is renowned for.

One advantage that the Fuji has over the HP Indigo digital presses is that the Fuji doesn't require papers to be 'sapphire treated'.

The book sits nice and flat and the finishing is well done. The weights are perfectly selected and it flows nicely in the hand.

The cover which is printed on the Omnia 200gsm, is the perfect weight as Omnia has a high bulk making it 280microns thick and is just right to take the de-boss. The outside cover is also film laminated with a satin lamination which gives the cover extra durability and as you can see, it has worked well on the Omnia.

Design is by Mark and Chris Thomson at Studio Thomson. The exceptional repro, printing and finishing is by Push Print in London.

https://www.hamishbrown.com/

https://studiothomson.com/

https://www.push-print.com/

Posted by Justin Hobson 18.05.2021

Boarders by Thames MMXX

Blondey is a British artist, skateboarder, clothing designer and model living in London. He is creative director of fashion brand Thames and represented by the Kate Moss Agency. His work engages with popular culture as a means of communicating self, society and an interpretation and representation of modern day religion. He has collaborated with brands such as Arena Homme+, Adidas, Palace, and Burberry, among others. His work has been featured in numerous exhibitions around the world.

Titled “Boarders,” the inaugural THAMES MMXX collection consists of graphic T-shirts, hoodies, button-downs, and knee-high socks, as well as a standout knit sweater with red trim inspired by Blondey McCoy's old school uniform.

The lookbook is a large format size, 380x300mm, portrait and is saddle stitched. It is a 20pp self cover and is printed on Omnia 150gsm.

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As you can see from the above images above and below, there is lots of colour and images with CMYK dark areas - loads of ink going down and it looks great on the Omnia, reproducing bright vibrant colours as well and the dark shadowy images, retaining detail in the dark areas - all with an uncoated tactile feel (...in my opinion- but I would say that wouldn't I?)

In this oversized format, it flows superbly with the large format pages working perfectly on the 150gsm weight...

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The look and feel of the whole publication is very uncoated and tactile but there is absolutely no loss of detail in the images as you can see in the detail image below...

You are probably assuming that this quality piece of print is printed offset litho, but you would be wrong. This job is printed on a new type of digital printing press, it is a Fujifilm Jet Press 720S. This new B2 size digital press is a commercial inkjet printer, which has been built to produce high-quality short run to medium run digital print. Push Print in London installed the press two years ago and as you can see from the result on this job, it is producing the high quality print that Push is renowned for.

The book sits nice and flat and the finishing is well done, with no cracking on the spine.

Boarders is designed and published by HENI, who are an international arts services business headquartered in London. HENI work with leading artists and estates across publishing, print-making, photography, digital publishing, film and art research. Photographer is Alasdair McLellan, Stylist is Ellie Grace Cumming. The boarders are Sam Sitayeb and Blondey. Hair is by Matt Mulhall

Printing is by Push Print based in London with Anthony Dearlove handling the project.

https://thamesmmxx.com/
https://blondey.com/
https://www.henipublishing.com/
http://www.push-print.com/

Posted by Justin Hobson 12.03.2020

Life - Simon Winnall

Simon Winnall is an advertising photographer, specialising in lifestyle and portraiture work for brands and ad agencies across the world. Here are just some of the names he has worked with: Aquafresh, Bentley, Buckle, BMW, Coca-Cola, DHL, Diageo, Dulux, Ferrari, Folgers Coffee, Halfords, Honda, LG, Lipton, Kopparberg Cider, Microsoft, Nescafé, Nivea, Nokia, Oriflame, Panasonic, Polar, SFR, Sainsbury’s, Sky Sports, Sony, Vodafone, Volvo, Weber Grills, ...and the list goes on!

 

This look-book shows new work and it is a particularly lovely piece of print. The 4pp cover is 325x235mm, portrait and is saddle stitched, however the text pages are a smaller size of 275x210mm, centred inside the cover.

The below image shows the way the text pages sit inside the cover....

It has to be said the size and proportion of the cover and text are just right, the pages just turn and fold well without being dwarfed by the large cover. 

The cover is printed on our Omnia White 280gsm and the 16pp text on 150gsm, the results of which are superb. The look and feel of the whole publication is very uncoated and tactile but there is absolutely no loss of detail in the images as you can see in the detail image below...

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Inside back spread...

A lovely touch is the use of Copper wire for the saddle stitches, which matches the copper foil which is on the front cover...

You are probably assuming that this quality piece of print is printed offset litho, but you would be wrong. This job is printed on a new type of digital printing press, it is a Fujifilm Jet Press 720S. This new B2 size digital press is a commercial inkjet printer, which has been built to produce high-quality short run to medium run digital print. Push Print in London installed the press last year and as you can see from the result on this job, it is producing the high quality print that Push is renowned for.

You can read more about the new Fujifilm Jet Press 720S here or watch their video here...

Photography, design and production is by Simmon Winnall.

http://www.simonwinnall.com/
www.processphotography.com
http://www.push-print.com/

Posted by Justin Hobson 08.05.2019