Mailer and wall art in one!

Rampton Baseley is a market leading estate agent in South West London. Established in 2008, they now have five offices around the commons of south London and consider themselves experts in the local patch. This piece of literature is one of a series of promotional pieces - and this one is part mailer/door drop and part wall art!

The size is 148x140mm and is a 12pp concertina, folding out to 297x420mm.

You can see from the image below, the way it folds...

It is printed offset Litho in CMYK on our Omnia 120gsm, which gives it a lovely tactile feel and the images have reproduced superbly.

...and then on the reverse is revealed this superb piece of wall art...

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It looks just brilliant on the Omnia.

...and the best thing about the map is the lack of branding, which as you can read below was well considered -  what a great idea!

Printed offset litho by Typecast Colour in Paddock Wood, Kent.

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Posted by Justin Hobson 30.07.2024

destination by Caroline Penn

Book artist Caroline Penn was asked to collaborate with thirteen other artists on a project, published by WhnicPRESS and launched at the Bristol Artist Book Event (BABE). Project C is about inter-semiotic translation: the translation from images to words, and words to images and the paths that form between them. Each artist was given an anonymised book cover and asked to respond to it with another book form.  All of the resulting fourteen books are held within a slip case in an edition of 25 copies.

Caroline wanted the form of her book to reference dictionaries and an unfolding train journey, hence the choice of Offenbach Bible, a double-sided, single sheet of Offenbach Bible folded into a concertina, and sewn into a cover.

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The finished size is 173x124mm with the 8pp concertina text folding out to a 494mm length. You can see from the below image how the text folds into the 4pp cover...

Concertina text fully extended...

Given the lightweight nature of the Offenbach Bible, you probably won't be able to believe that it's digitally printed! The job was printed and finished by print company Typecast Colour, based in Paddock Wood. It was printed on their Xerox digital press and the result is excellent. For a limited run, such as this (25 copies) printing digitally makes a project such as this viable.

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The above image shows the '5 hole sewn' binding, which is hand finished, as is the hole punching. Five hole sewing is just an evolution of three hole sewing, which I wrote about on this blog before HERE. The below picture shows the text fully extended:

The Offenbach Bible is enclosed within a Pergamenata paper cover which was all put into a loose cover, with the photo of the train in snow, supplied by WhnicPRESS. The other 13 artists also had their books enclosed within similar printed covers. All 14 books were then put into a slip case, see below...

Image courtesy of whnicPRESS

This was a lovely project to be involved with and many thanks to Caroline for taking the time to send me a copy of the finished publication and a handwritten note.

https://carolinepenn.com/
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Posted by Justin Hobson 22.11.2023

Maghreb

Les Terrasses du Ciel

This is the exhibition catalogue of a show by photographer François-Xavier Haage. The exhibition titled "Maghreb, Les Terrasses du Ciel" (Maghreb, The Terraces of Heaven) was first shown on June 30, 1987 and shows photographs taken during trips to Algeria and Morocco between 1985 and 1987. The exhibition was shown again in 2019 at Hang'Art in Paris.

The catalogue is a 28pp self cover publication printed on our lovely Offenbach Bible 60gsm. The size is 230x190mm, portrait and is saddle stitched. As you can see from the image above, the pages just flop and roll over beautifully.

Offenbach Bible 60gsm has a very high opacity for it's light weight, but the show through can be used as part of the design...

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The inside back spread (below) is the key as to where the images were taken

You probably won't be able to guess, or even believe, is that it's digitally printed! The job was printed and finished by digital print company Typecast Colour, based in Paddock Wood, Kent. It was printed on their Xerox digital press and the result is superb. For a limited run, printing digitally makes a project such as this viable - and on a a material like this, which many litho printers are scared of!...just look at the print result in the detail image below...

Designers Martí Peréz Palau and Carole Haage collaborated on the design of the catalogue.

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Posted by Justin Hobson 18.08.2022

Billy Tannery literature

Billy Tannery started with a discovery. Founders Jack and Rory found out that due to decades of decline in the British leather industry, many thousands of goatskins leftover from the food industry were being thrown away each year. So in 2016, building on centuries of local leather knowledge, they transformed a farm building in the Midlands into a small-batch tannery - the first to be built in the UK for well over 50 years.

This simple piece of promotional literature tells the story - Turning Waste into Worth. The finished size is A6 (148x105mm) but is simply a folded piece of A4 folding down to A6 - one of the simplest and most cost effective formats available, yet also one of the most effective. 

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Below image shows the leaflet folded out to the A4 size spread...

...and what better paper to print this publication on than a paper made using 25% upcycled leather! Remake is the range produced by Favini and Remake is leather ‘upcycling’ on an industrial scale and represents the latest frontier in upcycling in the paper sector. This unique and innovative paper replaces 25% of wood tree pulp with leather residues. You can read more about Remake here.

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In the detail image above you can see the visible leather fibres in the sheet. Below is the proud statement about the paper's provenance.

The publication is printed on Remake, Sand 120gsm It is printed and finished by Typecast Colour, based in Paddock Wood, Kent and was printed on their Xerox digital press.

https://billytannery.co.uk/

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Printed by Justin Hobson 17.06.2022

JetCard Welcome Pack

JetCard by Air Partner is ranked as Europe's most flexible jet card programme. A seamless private jet membership programme with fixed hourly rates, guaranteed availability and global reach with as few as 24 hours notice. This is the exquisitely produced welcome pack provided to new members of this exclusive club - people who can legitimately be described as the 'jet-set'.

The welcome pack is a solid 'casebound' folder using our Flaxprint, Litho Printable bookcloth, which is digitally printed with a CMYK image and is also hot foil blocked in copper foil. Size is 230x350mm with a depth of 35mm.

When the folder is opened (see below pic) there is a book and an insert tray on the right hand side.

The book is held in place by the back cover inserted into a internal sleeve fixed on the box as I hope you can see in the image below...

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The side tray, which is black foam infill tray, topped with a black Flockage covering. Inserted is a beautiful Smythson luggage tag and a metal membership card made from solid copper.

The book itself is 216mm square and is a 'casebound' hard cover using our Flaxprint, Litho Printable bookcloth, which is digitally printed with a CMYK image and is also hot foil blocked in copper foil (Foilco Ref: 6734).

As stated, both the box and book cover is printed on a very unusual product called Flaxprint. It is a genuine bookcloth which is litho printable, however in this instance it has been successfully digitally printed (for the first time that I'm aware of) using a dry toner, Ricoh C901 digital press. Like all bookcloth, it is one sided, in this case with a lightweight paper reverse, so it can be mounted onto board to form a casebound cover or slipcase ...and as you can see from the images above and below, it works just perfectly.

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The 32pp text is digitally printed on Neptune Unique, White 160gsm on an HP Indigo press and is layflat bound, as you can see from the image below...

It looks just perfect.

I must show more about the amazing result on the Flaxprint 74lb cover...

It really is an amazing product. As far as I am aware this is the only genuine bookcloth (as opposed to paper) which is litho printable and also digitally printable (dry toner) offering such amazing versatility. Having the ability to print an image and solid colours on a casebound book on a genuine cloth, rather than a paper alternative, offers a huge range of possibilities.

The fantastic quality of the digital reproduction on this genuine cloth is really impressive...

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In comparison with paper, a cloth is much, harder wearing which is why it has been used in this case. The images above and below show the close detail of the weave and print detail,

The excellent print and superb finishing and attention to detail is by Typecast Colour based in Paddock Wood, Kent. The below image shows the welcome pack in a custom white corrugated outer box for courier delivery...

Creative direction and design is by Fetch.

https://jetcard.airpartner.com/

https://www.fetchagency.com/

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Posted by Justin Hobson 20.08.2021

Hackney Winter Night Shelter R&A

Each winter, Hackney Winter Night Shelter (HWNS) provides food, shelter and a warm welcome to homeless people in Hackney. They help get their guests out of homelessness and into homes. A project of Hackney Doorways, HWNS is a grassroots project run by volunteers from Hackney churches and the local community providing a meal and a bed for homeless people at 13 different venues around Hackney.

This is their annual report for the latest financial year...

The size of the publication is 225x152mm, portrait and is a 24pp, self cover, on our Pergraphica Smooth, High White 150gsm. The design uses bold, solid colours made out of CMYK...

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As you can see from the images above and below, there is lots of colour and images with CMYK dark areas - loads of ink going down and it looks great, reproducing images and solid colours superbly.

The self cover format on 150gsm flows really nicely in the hand.

Unlike many of the publications 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!

The job is beautifully finished and saddle stitched.

Creative Director is Louise Desborough at Loud Creative. The job was printed and finished by digital print company Typecast Colour, based in Paddock Wood, Kent. 

https://www.hwns.org.uk/ 

https://www.loud-creative.com/ 

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 Posted by Justin Hobson 05.07..2021