Hello Handsome!

Here's a cracking new range of Father's Day cards from independent greeting card publisher Blue Eyed Sun. The 'Hello Handsome' range cards are all 160mm square and are sold through the trade to card shops and retailers ...so they are in the shops now!

The cards are printed CMYK, offset litho on our Rib-Tone, 2 sided which is a natural unbleached brown 'kraft' shade with a feint rib and a 100% recycled inner board.

One of the interesting things about Rib-Tone is that although it is a brown shade, it provides a very neutral background for what is printed on it and therefore is one of the few substrates that seems obvious yet, almost becomes invisible and doesn't interfere with the design.

The cards are designed and published by Blue Eyed Sun. Design is by Jo Corner. The cards are printed by Graphite Creative who are based in St Albans.

Blue Eyed Sun is an award winning greeting card company based in Brighton established fifteen years ago. They specialise in handmade and high end design-led cards, which are now sold around the world by some of the best know retailers including Harrods, John Lewis etc.

Joint founder and managing director Jeremy Corner is a leading figure in the greeting card world. He is instrumental within the 'Ladder Club' which helps aspiring greeting card publishers and is on the council of the Greeting Card Association (GCA). He is a real advocate for the industry ...and he still finds time to be a regular blogger! http://www.blueeyedsun.co.uk/blog

www.blueeyedsun.co.uk

http://www.graphite-creative.co.uk/

Posted by Justin Hobson 06.03.2015

Greetings on Rib-Tone

Last week, I wrote about the Fenner Paper stand at PG Live (Progressive Greetings Exhibition) which gave us an opportunity to show our range of boards to the greeting card industry.

During the exhibition, I had a wander round and visited the 'Springboard' section; this is where first time exhibitors and up and coming publishers show their designs. I was walking through and spotted some lovely cards on a brown ribbed material. I stopped and had a nice chat with Vanessa Bowerman who is the person behind the publishing imprint 'Your Lifetile'

Sure enough, I was delighted to discover that her Mantastic range is all printed on our Rib-Tone [2 sided] 340gsm! Vanessa runs her own design company in Cardiff and started creating framed gifts and handmade cards a few years ago in her spare time.

Vanessa now publishes a range of cards and this was her first 'trade' show and she was very happy with the response from the retail card buyers visiting the show.

The cards are digitally printed on an HP Indigo Press by specialist greeting card printers, The Imaging Centre.

...and with Father's Day coming up on June 15th, what better time is there than to look at a manly range such as this!

http://www.yourlifetile.com/shop?category=Mantastic
www.yourlifetile.com
www.theimagingcentre.co.uk
www.progressivegreetingslive.com

Posted by Justin Hobson 20.05.2014

Relish the Rib-Tone!

This is a lovely set of menu literature developed for "destination" restaurant, RELISH at the new Radisson Edwardian in Guildford.

Relish's ‘best of British' philosophy makes the most of their fresh produce. Ingredients are honest, of exceptional quality and always in season and the restaurant design, materials, layout and literature have been developed to reflect this.



Our Rib-Tone 2 sided 340gsm which has a natural brown shade and feint rib, was chosen to produce the menus, wine list, cards and bill holder wallets. The identity was printed in three colours, silver, black and a special brown. The wine list and menus are A4 size in a 4pp format, the cards are 85x55mm and the bill holder wallets are A5 portrait with a simple glued pocket.

Art direction for Relish is by Scott Wittman of the Gorgeous Group. The artwork production is by Suzanna Reed of Reedesigns.

Print was handled by Jason Maclaren at Cantate  ...and a couple of extra points worth noting about this project from a printing point of view:   The silver used in the image (wire around jar) is printed in high lustre base silver (www.color-logic.com) which has given an excellent, truly metallic result. The other thing is that the board has been sealed with an "Aquaseal" which is a watermissable triseal varnish, which although not making a noticeable difference to the surface of the paper, will offer some protection against fingermarking in the restaurant environment - good thinking!
...all in all, it's just the perfect choice of material.

www.relish-guildford.com
www.gorgeousgroup.com
www.reedesigns.co.uk
www.cantate.biz

Posted by Justin Hobson 21.02.2012