Time 100 Gala Invitation

The TIME 100 Gala is an exclusive annual celebration which honours the world’s most influential people. On Tuesday, April 23rd, this year, the celebration unfolded at New York City’s Jazz at Lincoln Centre. One hundred leading individuals and other exclusive guests, walked down the red carpet. They included artists, inventors, entertainers, politicians and business leaders.

The prestigious invitations produced for the event, were actually produced here in the UK.

Size of the invitation is 185mm square. As you can see from the above picture, it's very thick! It's printed on our Monoblack 2000microns ...that's 2mm thick!

It has been beautifully hot foil blocked in three colours of foil, matt white, gloss red and metallic silver foils.

The reverse of the invitation with the sponsors logos:

The job is produced by Gavin Martin Colournet and they have made a beautiful job of the hot foiling - it's just totally spot on!

http://time100.time.com/2013/04/23/behind-the-scenes-at-time-100/
www.gavinmartincolournet.co.uk

Posted by Justin Hobson 27.08.2013

Dorchester Collection 2011

This is the 2011 desk calendar for hotel group, the Dorchester Collection. It is a superbly produced calendar of the highest quality (as one might expect!)

The Dorchester Collection has a collection of hotels around the world from the Beverley Hills Hotel to Le Meurice in Paris to the Dorchester itself. Combined, the hotels boast 11 Michelin stars and it is the chefs (and the food) that are the stars of this calendar.

The size of the calendar is 148x200mm wiro-bound onto an extended "tent card" which is 25mm deeper.

The overiding feeling that you get with this piece is one of quality and prestige, which is down to the feel, quality of materials and processes used. The Calendar has been produced using a mixture of our Monoblack 1400mics (yes that's the black material - 1.4mm thick!) which makes a lovely sturdy tent and front cover. The cover is de-bossed and the tent card is hot foil blocked in a silver foil. The seventeen text sheets are printed on our StarFine White 170gsm and there is a 90gsm trace material interleaving the sheets. 

To celebrate the collections outstanding restaurants, photographer Joakim Blockström was commissioned to photograph each Michelin starred chef and signature dish in London, New York, Milan, Paris and Los Angeles. First and foremost it has to work as a functional calendar...

Design and (superb) art direction is by OMD Design and the Creative Director on the project was Chris Mettrick. The beautiful photography by Joakim Blockstrom ...and now we get to the print and production. This was a big project (65,000 copies in total) and required excellent print, finishing and logistics. It was produced by Gavin Martin and I have to say it is a really fantastically produced piece of print and finishing - for example the creases on the tent card have been "kiss-cut"  so they are really sharp and it sits up beautifully square, stable and erect. All in all it's a cracking job Grommit!

http://www.dorchestercollection.com/

http://www.omddesign.com/

http://www.joakimblockstrom.com/

http://www.gavinmartin.co.uk/

Posted by Justin Hobson 18.04.2011

Invitation to a wine tasting...

This is an example of a beautifully executed invitation done by an agency in Edinburgh that I work with called Touch.

It's A5 in size and just very simply foiled in two colours on our Monoblack 1400mics (...yes that's nearly 1.5mm thick!) Lovely typography and foiled to a very high satandard by IST printing services in Ayrshire.

...and thank you, Chris, for the lovely note.

www.penfolds.com

www.thetouchagency.co.uk

www.istprintingservices.co.uk

monoblack

It's about time for a shamless plug for one of our stock products I think!

Monoblack is a product we introduced a few months ago. It is available in ONE weight (very thick), ONE size and ONE colour which is why it's called MONOblack - gettit?

Sometimes, designers I work with use a certain other well known brand of (very expensive!) coloured paper in 700gsm and then they have it duplexed together to make 1400gsm - and it costs them a fortune! So we put this single item into stock, which is "ready thick" and much more cost effective - and it's been going very well indeed. Many people use it for invitations, presentation boards and mounted covers or boxes where a black edge is required.

Anyway if you would like some samples, please send me an e-mail (justin@fennerpaper.co.uk) ... just please don't ask what other colours it comes in!

...and just to prove that Monoblack already has some fans, here's a lovely note from Kirsty at Pentagram who just returned a printed sample that I leant to her - thanks Kirsty