The Big Book Bonanza is the showcase of new books from
Harper Collins and this is the 2016 catalogue. I wrote about the bewitching invitation for the launch at the Ham Yard Hotel
here.
The catalogue is 148x265mm, Landscape and is saddle stitched.
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The catalogue has a 4pp cover with a 56pp text, all printed on Colorset Natural 350gsm (cover) and 120gsm (text) printed offset litho in CMYK throughout.
The illustrations commissioned for the catalogue reproduce superbly on the Colorset Natural and is bright and vivid, the colours really lifting off the page.
Bearing in mind this job is printed on Colorset Natural, which is our 100% recycled coloured paper range which doesn't have any particular surface enhancements for printing, the areas of solid CMYK black look amazing:
The 4pp cover is blind embossed, where the text and filigree for the "garden gate", which is where on the
invitation, the same area was lasercut - unfortunately this isn't something that you can photograph!
Colorset is a bulky paper, so with a 56pp text, this is about as much as you can really use with a saddle stitched binding. It works, but if it were any more pages, it would be too "gappy" in the centre.
Art direction and design is by London based studio,
Design by St. Creative Partners are Steve Fenn and Tom Pollard. The excellent print and production is by Hampshire based
Senator Press.
Posted by Justin Hobson 16.08.2016
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