It's a wrap!

The Barrowland Ballroom is an iconic music venue in Glasgow. Built as a ballroom and now a music venue, this limited edition book, titled Barrowland Ballads, features stories, photographs and graphic art from a 2 year-long project by the award winning artists of Recollective (Alison Irvine, Chris Leslie, Mitch Miller). They worked in close collaboration with the venue, the east end community that surrounds it, and a much wider community of gig-goers, dancers and musicians whose life stories are woven into the building.

The 256pp case-bound book is a 240x170mm size with a 24mm spine and it has what some people call a belly-band or a book-jacket or a wrap. The wrap is printed our wonderfully light Offenbach Bible 60gsm and features a fold-out Dialectogram. The word Dialectogram does not appear in the dictionary but is an illustration of places, showing them in detail with contextual illustrations. This Dialectogram is an amazing piece of work and is illustrated by Mitch Miller. Below shows the book with the wrap off...

The wrap is folded down to form a 12pp wrap - both ends of which fold in first to make an 8pp which then folds into the inside back and inside back covers.

Below shows the wrap folded out to it's full extent...

It has three horizontal folds. 

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The below image shows the full Dialectogram in all it's glory...

If you click on the images, they come up to a more reasonable size. The open size of the wrap is 698x995mm, which is absolutely remarkable given that the stock size of the paper is 720x1020mm, so the printer has really scrimped on the amount of trim, which is a real feat. Printed offset Litho in CMYK.

Below shows a detail of the Dialectogram:

The book is a superb production, the design, writing, photography, illustration and printing is all of the highest standard. The Barrowlands project is supported by Creative Scotland, Merchant City Festival and Glasgow City Heritage Trust. The book is designed and published by Graphical House in a limited edition of only 400 copies. The excellent printing is by Pressision based in Leeds.

http://www.barrowlandballads.co.uk/
https://www.graphicalhouse.com/
https://pressision.co.uk/
http://barrowland-ballroom.co.uk/

Posted by Justin Hobson 16.03.2020

The Greenwich Regulator

The Queen Elizabeth Scholarship Trust (QEST) is the charitable arm of the Royal Warrant Holders Association. QEST exists to advance education in modern and traditional crafts and trades in the UK. The Greenwich Regulator Clock is an example of fine craftsmanship and the brochure documents all the crafts concerned, from the furniture by Zone Creations, the movement by Comitti to the calligraphy by Sally Mangum.

Acrylic invitation

This is one of those absolutely exquisite pieces of design and print. The entire set comprises a paper over board, lined box, housing a bespoke acrylic invitation (which is the material the clock is made from) and the brochure.


Box and brochure - box using clear and bronze foiling.

Size of the brochure is 250x180mm, portrait. It has an 8pp cover on our Omnia 280gsm, hot foil blocked in bronze foil and the 32pp text is "French folded" (which is 16x4pp French folded sections) using our Omnia 150gsm and is printed with a solid pantone gold on the inside of the folds - gorgeous! It's PUR bound with a 6mm spine.





The 8pp cover, also printed using the pantone gold solid. Omnia was chosen because the cover would print, de-boss and foil beautifully and the Omnia would reproduce the photography with the metallic, solid blue, and the acrylic superbly ...and it looks brilliant!

Inside back page and inside back cover showing solid blue and image of the finished regulator clock.

Image showing the French folded text:

This lovely piece of print collateral and packaging has been created by Cheshire based design consultancy, The Gate. Designer on the project is Matthew Miles. It's just worth saying that this piece of literature is about celebrating the best of traditional and modern crafts in the UK and this very piece of print is itself an excellent example of that craft.

The superb print, foiling including the boxmaking is by Leeds based Pressision. Ian Cavanagh handled the project and very kindly sent me a file copy.

 

www.greenwichregulator.com

www.thegatedesigngroup.com

www.pressision.co.uk 

Posted by Justin Hobson 29.08.2013