Jobs from the past - Number 182

Regular followers of this blog will know that for my first post of every month I try (but not always!) to publish a "job from the past" so that I can show some of the really good work from years gone by - this project is from 2014

PREEN LINE SS2014

This is the Spring/Summer 2014 look-book for Preen Line, which is the "contemporary line" range with the more economical price tag from London fashion house PREEN.

It's a lovely oversize 333x240mm, portrait, saddle stitched format. It is a 28pp "self cover". This means that it is printed on the same material throughout, so the cover is on the same weight as the text. It works well on this job as it feels really substantial. A big part of that is the format and the fact that it is printed on our Omnia 150gsm, which has a high bulk and therefore you really don't notice that the cover is no heavier ...and, most importantly, the text flows nicely in the hand and lies nice and flat.

As you can see from the images, there is lots of rich colour and blue is prevalent - and it just looks beautiful on the Omnia - just gorgeously even and crisp reproduction. In particular the images with CMYK dark areas - with lots of ink going down, looks great on the Omnia, reproducing bright vibrant colours as well and the darker images as well, whilst retaining all the detail.

Design is by Mark and Chris Thomson at Studio Thomson. Photography is by Nick Dorey and the superb print by Push, although sadly (like many printers) they are no longer in operation.

https://www.preen.eu/
https://www.studiothomson.com/

https://www.nickdorey.com/

Posted by Justin Hobson 04.11.2025

Preen Home

Preen By Thornton Bregazzi was founded in 1996 by Justin Thornton and Thea Bregazzi, built on an aesthetic of darkly romantic and effortlessly modern, juxtaposing the masculine with feminine and mixing of hard and soft. Their debut collection at London Fashion Week for Spring Summer 2001 established the brand’s essence of punkish sensibilities with vintage elements and hand crafted details

Preen by Thornton Bregazzi has now expanded to include Preen Home – an opulent offering of soft furnishings

Size of the brochure is 330x240mm, portrait and is singer sewn. The text material chosen was our Omnia, which would beautifully reproduce the photography with the delicate patterns and dark colours superbly - without forgetting the fleshtones ...and it looks wonderful! There is a 4pp cover on Omnia 200gsm and 16pp text on 120gsm.

Click on images to enlarge

Unlike many of the look-books featured on this blog, which are printed offset litho, this has been digitally printed on an HP Indigo press. The colours are strong and punchy and the whole publication has a matt, tactile look and feel - in fact I can honestly say, every bit as good as litho!

Although Omnia was never originally developed for digital, we now keep it as a stock item with "sapphire treatment". This treatment is often applied to more unusual papers and provides a "key" so that the inks (which are different to litho inks) work on the paper surface. The great thing is the job just doesn't look and feel like a digital job. Below is a detail shot showing the excellent fleshtone reproduction.

Click on images to enlarge

Below shows the detail of the red thread used on the singer sewing - just beautiful!

Omnia is a very bulky paper, and the 200gsm cover just works perfectly with the format and the singer sewing

The art direction is by Mark and Chris Thomson and the quality of the direction and photography (by Ash Reynolds) is matched by the exceptional digital print by Screaming Colour.
https://preenbythorntonbregazzi.com/
https://studiothomson.com/
https://www.screamingcolour.com/

Posted by Justin Hobson 08.07.2022

Hamish Brown Photographs...

Hamish Brown is an award-winning photographer whose talent and style have secured him shoots worldwide for many of the top names in celebrity, music and sport. His photographs have graced the covers of British GQ, The Times Magazine, The Observer Magazine, The Telegraph, Men's Health and Vogue.

This is his amazing portfolio...

Front Cover...

Inside spread

The outside front cover is covered with an all over de-boss in type listing the names of his clients. The effect is fantastic.

Size of the brochure is 345 x 245mm, portrait, saddle stitched.

It has a 4pp cover on 200gsm and a 24pp text on 120gsm, all printed on our Omnia. For those readers not familiar with Omnia, it is an uncoated paper with a surface treatment. What this means is that it feels like an uncoated paper but because the surface treatment minimises 'dot-gain', the print result is much more like that of a coated silk or gloss coated paper.

The look and feel of the whole publication is very uncoated and tactile but there is absolutely no loss of detail in the images as you can see in the detail image below...

You are probably assuming that this quality piece of print is printed offset litho, but you would be wrong. This job is printed on a digital printing press - a Fujifilm Jet Press 720S. This (relatively) new B2 size digital press is a commercial inkjet printer, which has been built to produce high-quality short run to medium run digital print. Push Print in London installed the press three years ago and as you can see from the result on this job, it is producing the high quality print that Push is renowned for.

One advantage that the Fuji has over the HP Indigo digital presses is that the Fuji doesn't require papers to be 'sapphire treated'.

The book sits nice and flat and the finishing is well done. The weights are perfectly selected and it flows nicely in the hand.

The cover which is printed on the Omnia 200gsm, is the perfect weight as Omnia has a high bulk making it 280microns thick and is just right to take the de-boss. The outside cover is also film laminated with a satin lamination which gives the cover extra durability and as you can see, it has worked well on the Omnia.

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

https://www.hamishbrown.com/

https://studiothomson.com/

https://www.push-print.com/

Posted by Justin Hobson 18.05.2021

Jobs from the past - Number 122

Regular followers of this blog will know that my first post of every month is a "job from the past" so that I can show some of the really good work from years gone by and this invitation is from 2006.

Aquascutum - Spring Summer 2006 
Set up by John Emary, Aquascutum began as a Mayfair tailors in 1851. Seeing an opportunity for more refined rainwear, Emary created and patented the first waterproof wool. This unique creation led to inspire the brands name, which translates as "water shield" from Latin and was the first company to provide the British army with innovative waterproof cloth during the Crimean war.

This is the invitation to the Spring/Summer 2006 private view. The size is 148x210mm folding out to 297x420mm (A3)

The above and below images show the printing on the 'outside' showing SS06

Above is the front showing the SS, which folds out to reveal the below image:

...which then folds upwards to reveal the whole invitation:

I have the description, given to me at the time by Mark Thomson "The invite was inspired by the Aquascutum collection which had a shipwreck theme - the invite is meant to resemble a transparent boat sail, when you hold it up to the light you can read the whole title of the show". The invitation is printed offset litho in CMYK in both sides by Generation Press.

Below you can see the detail of the translucency achieved between the printing on either side of the paper...

It is printed on our Offenbach Bible 60gsm and it looks and feels gorgeous. The format, combined with the paper, gives the publication a light, malleable, tactile feel and as I'm sure you can see from the below image.

Art direction and design is by brothers Mark and Chris Thomson at Studio Thomson and I still have the note that Mark kindly sent me with the file copies:

Print and finishing is by Generation Press, based near Brighton in Sussex. A wonderfully simple job, beautifully printed and finished ...yet another one of those projects that looks as fantastic now as it did thirteen years ago! In fact I wrote about Studio Thomson celebrating their 5th Birthday in 2009 here!

https://www.aquascutum.com/
https://studiothomson.com/
https://generationpress.co.uk/

Posted by Justin Hobson 02.12.2019

Preen Home

Preen By Thornton Bregazzi was founded in 1996 by Justin Thornton and Thea Bregazzi, built on an aesthetic of darkly romantic and effortlessly modern, juxtaposing the masculine with feminine and mixing of hard and soft. Their debut collection at London Fashion Week for Spring Summer 2001 established the brand’s essence of punkish sensibilities with vintage elements and hand crafted details

Preen by Thornton Bregazzi has now expanded to include Preen Home – an opulent offering of soft furnishings

Size of the brochure is 330x240mm, portrait and is singer sewn. The text material chosen was our Omnia, which would beautifully reproduce the photography with the delicate patterns and dark colours superbly - without forgetting the fleshtones ...and it looks wonderful! There is a 4pp cover on Omnia 200gsm and 16pp text on 120gsm.

Click on images to enlarge

Unlike many of the look-books featured on this blog, which are printed offset litho, this has been digitally printed on an HP Indigo press. The colours are strong and punchy and the whole publication has a matt, tactile look and feel - in fact I can honestly say, every bit as good as litho!

Although Omnia was never originally developed for digital, we now keep it as a stock item with "sapphire treatment". This treatment is often applied to more unusual papers and provides a "key" so that the inks (which are different to litho inks) work on the paper surface. The great thing is the job just doesn't look and feel like a digital job. Below is a detail shot showing the excellent fleshtone reproduction.

Click on images to enlarge

Below shows the detail of the red thread used on the singer sewing - just beautiful!

Omnia is a very bulky paper, and the 200gsm cover just works perfectly with the format and the singer sewing

The art direction is by Mark and Chris Thomson and the quality of the direction and photography (by Ash Reynolds) is matched by the exceptional digital print by Screaming Colour.

http://www.preen.eu/
http://www.studiothomson.com/
http://www.screamingcolour.com/

Posted by Justin Hobson 30.03.2018