Showing posts with label Wood McGrath. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Wood McGrath. Show all posts

Wednesday, 2 November 2011

Jobs from the past - Number 25

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...

British Council
Design, Architecture & Cultural Relations - 2008

This is a modest and cost effective publication produced for the British Council in Spring 2008. The publication covered recent projects, showcasing the best of UK creativity and the way in which the work of the council engaged in international cutural relations.
Although the pictures make them look like a series, they are simply the same publication but with a change of coloured cover board. Extremely simple, very effective and bringing the project a lot more value than if the covers were all the same.
They are A5 portrait, wire stitched (with black stitches - nice touch!) The covers are all 4pp printed on 5 different shades of Colorset 100% Recycled 270gsm (Spring Green, Mango, Deep Orange, Magenta and White)
Fronts:
 Backs:

Covers are printed in two colours (special blue and black) common, on all colours. The 16pp text for reasons of cost was printed on a cheaper uncoated offset (which is called Evolve, I think) is printed in CMYK.
The job was printed by Beacon Press (now Pureprint).

Design is by Wood McGrath and even though it was three years ago, I've still got the lovely note they sent me with the file copies (which also happens to be printed on Colorset Solar 270gsm!) Thank you Martin and Suzy:

Posted by Justin Hobson 02.11.2011

Monday, 20 July 2009

British Council Newsletter

I have to admit that this isn't a spanky brand new job, but I was having a bit of a tidy up and saw this job which well deserves a look.

It is the newsletter for Design Architecture & Cultural Relations. It is A5 size and the cover (which is printed on Colorset Ash 270gsm) has a really simple but very effective fold over and tuck in flap. I think it's an excellent example of where a simple finishing technique has raised the production values on a job where the budget was not great. Another nice touch is the red coloured staples - very nice. Sadly they didn't use our paper on the text pages (I think this was dictated by budget) but I'm not complaining, as I got a nice note! - thank you Martin and Suzy.