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

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