Showing posts with label Material Organisation. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Material Organisation. Show all posts

Thursday 11 October 2012

Soho House Berlin

Soho House opened their doors in May 2010 at No. 1 Torstrasse in Mitte, Berlin. The building was originally opened in 1928 as department store Jonas & Co and has since been put to a  succession of uses including government offices. The latest addition to this gleaming white eight storey Bauhaus period building are 20 new short let luxury apartments.

London based design studio, Material Organisation, were commissioned to create a launch package for the new apartments. Their design and use of materials reflects the diverse history of the building, turning the utilitarian plans from function to form and utilising the substrates of record keeping to luxury packaging
Size of the brochure is 168x205mm, portrait. It has a 4pp cover with a 20pp text and an additional 12pp of A6 inserts and is singer sewn with complementary orange thread. The text is printed on our Omnia 120gsm which has worked beautifully with the excellent interior photography. The colours are fantastically rich and there's so much life in the images of the interiors - which as we all know is about having a great original, the good repro and print with the right paper.
The cover is a light brown manilla file board from that other, Hull based, paper merchant!
Design is by the creative team at Material Organisation. Creative Director is Sam Wilson. Thanks to Rosy for sending me some copies and a lovely note.
Print and the excellent finishing, including the 'singer sewing' is by Chapter Press.
 
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Posted by Justin Hobson 11.10.2012

Wednesday 16 May 2012

William & Son - Engagement Rings

This is a beautifully produced little publication produced by William & Son of London for their range of engagement rings. It is a small 'handbag' size of 110mm square. The book has a 4pp cover with a 20pp 'French folded' text (which confusingly actually makes it 40pp!) and is perfect bound.

The text pages are printed on our Marazion Ultra 115gsm with the natural, flat mattness which works fantastically reproducing the metallics and the jewels...
The cover is a Buckram embossed board from that other, Hull based paper merchant! As you can see from the pic below the inside of the french folds are printed with the William & Son brand patterning.

Design is by Material Organisation, based in London. Creative Director is Sam Wilson, designer on the project is Rosy Tsai. There are some beautiful touches on this piece including the hand tied ribbon around the cover (see image at the top of the post).

...and thanks to Rosy for taking the time to send me  a copy and a lovely note:

Print and the excellent finishing (french folding is nice and square) is by Generation Press.

Posted by Justin Hobson 16.05.2012