Olly Burn Photographer

Olly Burn is a London based photographer and this piece of print is his superbly produced promotional brochure printed last year. 

On his website, Olly Burn describes himself as "lucky to be shooting in some of the world’s most beautiful and challenging locations" ...and this piece of literature certainly goes to prove that point, with locations including Jamaica and Cuba.

The size is 420x297mm, portrait, which is a very large format but gives the images an amazing amount of space. The book has a 4pp cover with a 44pp text and a 'dustjacket' forming a double sided poster wrapping around the cover. The below image shows the inside of the wrap, with the outside of the folded wrap on top.

The below image shows the actual 'cover' underneath the wrap which lists the projects and assignments profiled in the book.

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A beautiful feature is the 'singer sewn' binding using green thread which matches the text colour on the cover.

Wrap, cover and text are all printed on our Omnia which gives it that dead matt, tactile feel but with great reproduction. Wrap is on 120gsm, cover on 200gsm and 44pp text on 150gsm 

The piece has a fantastic feel - solid flat areas of colour work amazingly well - it is difficult for me to say too much more about it - see the images below, they speak for the job...

When I was taking these images for the blog, I saw something on the spread above that I thought was on the page and went to brush it away - however it was in/on the printed image. Mud, which appears so three dimensional in both the image and the printed result that it really looks amazing, as I hope the detail below demonstrates: 

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"All my photography revolves around interaction and capturing genuine moments. The interaction between myself, my subjects and their environments is what inspires me to take pictures." — Olly Burn. You can read more about this project on his website here.

Below image shows outside back cover (on left) with the jacket on the right.

Below shows detail of inside centre spread showing singer sewing.

It's always difficult on this blog to give a sense of scale! -so below is the brochure next to a 2 litre bottle of spring water...

Choice of the paper weights is just right, allowing it to flop open and flow in the hand.

Singer sewing gives it a crafted feel and allows it to open fully, making the best of the large format spreads.

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

http://ollyburn.com/

http://www.studiothomson.com/
http://www.push-print.com/

Posted by Justin Hobson 25.10.2016

Timberland

This is certainly one of the best pieces of print that I've seen so far this year.

 

This publication, produced for Timberland, by Document Studios is a limited edition book which is designed to tell a story....

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This piece of literature is as much about the words as the images. Although the products have centre stage, it is set within 'the spirit and cultural context of the brand'.

The size of the book is 235x165mm, portrait, has a 132pp text with a 4pp limp cover and is section sewn. It is printed on our Redeem 100% Recycled 240gsm cover and 130gsm text. The paper is a neutral white shade gives the publication a 'booky' feel which really works with the images and most importantly, the pages which are purely type.

The quality of image reproduction is simply off the scale. I have never seen Redeem printed as well as this.

In their own words.... "Document Studios is all about storytelling. We tell brand and product stories through unique editorial content, art direction and design. Set up by Editorial Director David Hellqvist and Creative Director/Designer Mark Thompson, Document Studios has three main objectives: to inspire, educate and create desire.
Commissioned by Timberland, the iconic American footwear and apparel brand, Hellqvist and Thompson set out to capture the true spirit of the brand.

Documenting the history and story of Timberland, the limited edition book looked closer at Timberland’s sub-cultural history. Through commissioned photography and interviews, pop cultural icons, such as Visvim’s Hiroki Nakamura, Gary Aspden, Ronnie Fieg and Stussy’s Nick Bower, offered their point of view of the brand, while designers like Patrik Ervell, Martine Rose and Soulland’s Silas Adler shared their personal experiences of the brand."

Here is the piece about Ronnie Fieg:

The publication is 132pp, section sewn text, with a 12mm wide spine:

A particularly interesting feature is the cover, or rather the finish on the cover. Because this is more of an editorial publication, requiring a more magaziney feel, a lamination was considered to be a good idea for protection, however something more tactile and engaging was required....

A textured lamination finish was selected, which is a lamination film which already has a texture on the surface, hopefully you can see from the image below...

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For interest, I wrote about lamination films and textured lamination on a previous post here:
http://justinsamazingworldatfennerpaper.blogspot.co.uk/2014/06/what-is-film-lamination.html

It is produced for Timberland by Document. Editorial Director is David Hellqvist and the Art Director is Mark Thompson.

Print production is by Push based in London. The quality of reproduction of these images on this paper has simply got to be seen to be believed, it is a truly stunning job.

www.timberland.com

http://documentstudios.com/

www.mgtstudio.co.uk
www.push-print.com

Posted by Justin Hobson 28.05.2015