Showing posts with label Just the cover makes the difference. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Just the cover makes the difference. Show all posts

Friday, 21 June 2019

The Burlington Arcade

The Burlington Arcade in London dates back to 1819. Designed by Samuel Ware “for the sale of jewellery and fancy articles of fashionable demand, for the gratification of the public.” It was commissioned by Lord George Cavendish, Earl of Burlington and owner of the adjacent Burlington House, as a safe place for his wife and other genteel folk to shop. Today it continues that tradition, with a host of luxury shops.

"Just the cover makes the difference" is a phrase I've used many times on this blog about many projects where the cover "makes the difference" and this is just one of those projects. The cover is printed on one of our new Colorset shades - Charcoal in 350gsm.
Brochure size is 240x170mm, portrait. The outside cover is simply (but beautifully) hot foil blocked in a rose gold metallic foil - Foilco Ref 6037
There are some really nice features to this project. Firstly the brochure is encased in a bespoke envelope (250x180mm) made from the same material as the cover and is also hot foil blocked on the outside and a beautiful touch is the foiling on the inside of the flap. Quite an extensive area to foil but the Foilco Foil (6037) looks superb...
Another quality element is the three hole sewn binding, which is superbly done and holds the 16pp text securely in place. Identity Printers actually do this at their in-house bindery.
...and on the inside front and back covers the Burlington monogram is hot foil blocked in clear foil.
Detail showing the monogram
Just look at the precision of the scoring on the outside flap of the envelope. It gives the whole project a wonderful, quality feel.
Print and hot foiling is by Identity Print, based in Paddock Wood with Paul Martin handling the project.

https://www.burlingtonarcade.com/
http://www.identityprint.co.uk/
http://www.foilco.co.uk/
Posted by Justin Hobson 21.06.2019

Wednesday, 15 May 2019

CSM Guide 2019

I've written many posts on this blog which includes the phrase "...just the cover makes the difference!" The cover on this prospectus is simply perfect. It is printed on our Astralux, One sided 170gsm, with an amazing image which is a photo composition of 28 works by CSM students,  all laid out with the wonderful King's Cross building as the backdrop.
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The size of the publication is 270x200mm, portrait. The cover has 100mm flaps, which you can see in the birds eye picture below...
The below image shows the opening spread, which shows the 92pp text, which is stepped and printed on a combination of recycled uncoated, gloss art and yellow tinted paper.
Above you can see the way the image wraps around the cover over to the flap - and this is where the real magic happens, because Astralux being a 'Cast Coated' paper it has a high gloss surface one side and is uncoated on the reverse, so you get the juxtaposition of the high gloss coated with the toothy uncoated reverse (printed yellow) as I hope you will be able to see in the image below...
The image below shows the cover in it's entirety, spread out
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The job is PUR bound - a very neat job.
It is a superbly designed piece of literature which has to engage with young creative minds, demonstrate that CSM is a world class arts and design college whilst also satisfying the CSM Alumni! No easy task. Design is by Boyle & Perks.

The excellent print is by Pureprint. It is printed offset Litho throughout in CMYK plus the bright yellow printed as a pantone special.

https://www.arts.ac.uk/colleges/central-saint-martins
http://boyleperks.com/
https://www.pureprint.com/
http://www.favini.co.uk/
Posted by Justin Hobson 15.05.2019