Wunderkammer

This is the cocktail and food menu for the brilliantly named Wunderkammer, which is a concept bistro in the Renaissance Wien Hotel in Vienna.

This modern European bistro is restaurant, bar & lounge, regularly featuring a DJ. There's a culinary offering of international cuisine, a Sunday brunch and a classic bar offering signature cocktails.

The menu covers are produced on Stardream Lapislazuli 285gsm. The finished size 230x153 mm and they are made up as an 8pp, with the flap on the inside front cover being stuck down, increasing rigidity, and a pocket being formed on the inside back cover to allow the text booklet to be inserted and held in place. The covers are simply hot foil blocked in metallic gold foil, which looks great.

Art direction is by Scott Wittman of the Gorgeous Group who are based in London. Designer on the project is Maartje Smolders.

Print production was done locally in the region by Scholz Druck & Verlag GmbH in Bremen www.scholz-bremen.de

This is an excellent example of a project where a material has been chosen which has been used to great effect with minimal print and processing. Having said that, it is important to stress that what has been done, hot foiling and creasing, has been completed to a very high standard, otherwise a production like this would not look and feel so special.

http://www.marriott.co.uk/hotels/travel/viehw-renaissance-wien-hotel/
http://www.gorgeousgroup.com/
http://www.cordenons.co.uk/
http://www.scholz-bremen.de/de/

Posted by Justin Hobson 06.05.2015

Relish the Rib-Tone!

This is a lovely set of menu literature developed for "destination" restaurant, RELISH at the new Radisson Edwardian in Guildford.

Relish's ‘best of British' philosophy makes the most of their fresh produce. Ingredients are honest, of exceptional quality and always in season and the restaurant design, materials, layout and literature have been developed to reflect this.



Our Rib-Tone 2 sided 340gsm which has a natural brown shade and feint rib, was chosen to produce the menus, wine list, cards and bill holder wallets. The identity was printed in three colours, silver, black and a special brown. The wine list and menus are A4 size in a 4pp format, the cards are 85x55mm and the bill holder wallets are A5 portrait with a simple glued pocket.

Art direction for Relish is by Scott Wittman of the Gorgeous Group. The artwork production is by Suzanna Reed of Reedesigns.

Print was handled by Jason Maclaren at Cantate  ...and a couple of extra points worth noting about this project from a printing point of view:   The silver used in the image (wire around jar) is printed in high lustre base silver (www.color-logic.com) which has given an excellent, truly metallic result. The other thing is that the board has been sealed with an "Aquaseal" which is a watermissable triseal varnish, which although not making a noticeable difference to the surface of the paper, will offer some protection against fingermarking in the restaurant environment - good thinking!
...all in all, it's just the perfect choice of material.

www.relish-guildford.com
www.gorgeousgroup.com
www.reedesigns.co.uk
www.cantate.biz

Posted by Justin Hobson 21.02.2012