Digital just gets better and better!

This is a brochure produced for a conference hosted by the Prince's Foundation. It is A4 format and saddle stitched. It looks and feels great and yet the run was only 200 copies!

The job was printed on an Indigo digital press by Good News Press and the print result is fantastic. It is printed on our Omnia (FSC) 4pp cover on 150gsm and 20pp text on 120gsm.

Although Omnia was not developed for digital, it has been "sapphire treated" by the printer. This treatment is often applied to more unusual papers and provides a "key" so that the inks (which are different to litho inks) work on the paper surface.

As you can see from the spread below, the result is awesome!

Design is by Valerie Kildea at The Prince's Foundation and thank you for the lovely note.
Val kindly sent me a copy of the new Typographic Circle mgazine called Circular Sixteen and even though the paper was sponsored by another paper merchant (...based in Hull, guess who?), here's some pics, as it's very nice piece of work! There are articles about Lippa Pearce, Spin, Design Project to name but a few.

Have a look at www.typocircle.co.uk and join and get your own copy!

www.princes-foundation.org

www.goodnewspress.co.uk

www.typocircle.co.uk

An incredible story about paper ...from Space!

In February 2003, the space shuttle Columbia broke up on re-entry from space over Texas. Seven astronauts lost their lives and because of the type of altitude and explosion most of the shuttle and contents were simply vaporised.

However, incredibly, paper survived ... and not just any paper, but parts of the personal journal of one of the astronauts, Ilan Ramon from Israel. Amazingly these charred remains floated down to earth and were found two months later in Texas swampland. The highly degraded and damp papers, written in Hebrew, were given to his widow Rona Ramon. She recognised that they were a personal account rather than technical references and they were passed on to the Israel Museum in Jerusalem and Forensic science department of the Israel police for preservation and restoration.

Remarkably and in some cases character by character, sections of this remarkable diary have been reconstructed, the process having taken months and months of dedicated work.

To celebrate this miracle, a limited edition of "facsimile" diaries has been produced for the Ramon family in a boxed set which contains a replica notebook incorporating the found and restored sections of the journal and a booklet describing the reconstruction of the Space Diary.

It has been designed and produced by Ornan Rotem and Num Stibbe from Sylph Editions here in the UK. It is not published as a commercial project but as a labour of love as they are friends of the Ramon family.


It is not available for sale as this was very much a private project for the Ramon family but it is a privilege to be able to tell the story and show you the pictures.

It was an amazing job to have been involved with, the story being so fascinating but also incredibly sad as sections of this highly personal journal describe his private feelings about being in Space and how much he is looking forward to being reunited with his family after landing back on Earth.

The project was digitally printed by Good News Press on an Indigo digital press and was printed on Neptune Unique SoftWhite. The facsimile notebook has been bound using nylon cords supplied by NASA which is how the original notebook was bound.

http://www.sylpheditions.com/

http://www.goodnewspress.co.uk/

Digital Music

I knew the day was coming when digital printing would catch up with the quality of Litho, but I didn't think it would be this soon! We supplied our Omnia material for a promotional sample for printers Good News Press (based in Essex) to promote their Indigo digital press. Well I am absolutely stunned by the result, it is amazing.

It looks and feels just like a litho job and doesn't have that digitally printed "feel" or "look" that could be said of jobs in the past. It has to be said that it is in part down to the paper, which is not one of those super smooth high white "digital" papers that most of the "bash it out brigade" digital printers tend to use!

Design is by Turnbull Ripley and photography is by Steve Gullick.If you want to get hold of your own copy, I suggest you e-mail Mark Carey (mark@goodnewspress.co.uk)

http://www.turnbullripley.co.uk/

http://www.gullickphoto.com/