Carriage Works Swindon

Once a booming Victorian industrial town, Swindon’s reputation has suffered greatly since the Second World War. Swindon Borough Council recently commenced an ambitious regeneration plan for entire town. At its heart is the Railway Heritage Quarter, made famous by Brunel and Gough’s Great Western Railway in the 19th century.

The entire area is known as the Great Western Works (GWW) and the Carriage Works is a development for the tech and innovation business hub within GWW.

Size of the publication is 297x250mm, portrait with a 4pp cover on Omnia 320gsm and a 12pp text with two throw-outs (16pp total) printed on Omnia 150gsm.

Picture below shows the throw out...

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The material chosen for the publication is our Omnia. This material has a high bulk, required as effectively this is only a 20pp brochure. The solid yellow, almost looks fluorescent, it is so vibrant. The photography and the CGI's have reproduced brilliantly on the Omnia.

Even though the 150gsm text paper is bulky, it still rolls and flows nicely in the hand without feeling too stiff and rigid....

Birds eye view, showing the two throw out pages:

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A really nice feature is the singer sewn binding, which you can see here on both the exterior and interior of the publication.

Above showing exterior stitching (on the outside spine) and below showing the interior stitching on the centre pages.

The pantone special yellow is so vibrant!

Art direction and design is by Bell Integrated. You can read more about the whole project here: https://www.bell-integrated.co.uk/portfolio/great-western-works/. Printed offset litho throughout. The excellent print, repro and finishing is by Gavin Martin, based in London

https://www.bell-integrated.co.uk/
https://www.gavinmartin.co.uk/

Posted by Justin Hobson 25.09.2023

The Annual St Bride Foundation Conference returns!

St Bride Foundation has reprised its annual conference, with the event set to take place in November. It's live event and also being live-streamed to a worldwide audience for the first time.

Conference Identity by David Pearson

Talking to Printweek, event curator Becky Chilcott said the pandemic had resulted in “a greater need to bring our fantastic community together more often and inspire and engage with them and their creativity”, and it was the perfect time to revive the event. “Not only will the conference keep the St Bride Foundation alive in people’s creative imaginations, it will also raise vital funds to help the upkeep of our Grade II listed Victorian building, management and conservation of our unique and irreplaceable library collections and running of our print workshop and learning programme.” The St Bride Foundation said the event would be “a conversazione celebrating innovation, inspiration, imagination and invention”. 

The speaker line-up includes: Naïma Ben Ayed, Neville Brody, Jean Julien, Naomi Kent, Alicia Martin, Bob Richardson, Venessa and Vanice Scott, and Dominic Wilcox. Attendees will also be able to find out more about some of the treasures and notable items in the St Bride Library collection, and will have a chance to try letterpress printing using the historic presses in the St Bride printing workshop

Fenner Paper is pleased to be one of the principal sponsors along with Commercial Type and the Fleet Street Quarter together with Google and the Wynkyn de Worde Society Charitable Trust.

Principal Sponsors

The conference will take place on Saturday 11 November at the St Bride Foundation in London. In person tickets cost £60, £70 or £80. Online tickets for the live-stream are £35, £45, or £50. The discounted rates apply to students and Friends of St Bride.

You can book HERE. So why don't you get those little grey cells moving and sign up! NOW

https://sbf.org.uk/whats-on/view/the-annual-st-bride-foundation-conference/

SUMO - up to 3mm thick!

SUMO is our a heavyweight, thick board manufactured by FAVINI in Italy. It is available in black and white and the consists of 1mm, 1.5mm, 2mm up to a whopping 3mm thick  ...seriously chunky! Originally just in Black and White, the range has now been extended to include a small range of colours - five shades all available in 1mm thick and below is the new lighter weight swatch...

 Size of the swatch is 240x152mm with 10mm spine

Thanks to the dyeing process, the colour distribution is consistent throughout to give excellent results especially when the edge is visible. The finest quality makes Sumo perform excellently for invitations, tags, covers, business cards, luxury POS material and high-end packaging.

The SUMO range is FSC certified. Below shows the five new shades, all available in 1mm thick.

If you would like samples, please drop me an email: justin@fennerpaper.co.uk

https://www.favini.com/gs/en/products/sumo/

Posted by Justin Hobson 13.09.2023

Radisson Blu Edwardian

The Radisson Blu Edwardian hotel in Manchester is set inside the historic Free Trade Hall, one of the city’s oldest and most iconic buildings, and is known for its musical past. The hotel has 263 luxurious rooms and suites and many of the suites are named after some of the artists that appeared at the venue before it was a hotel.

This brochure is about these "Signature Suites" and the facilities that the have to offer.

The format is A5 Landscape and is printed on our Omnia. It is an 8pp self cover printed on Omnia White 200gsm. A "self-cover" format is usually more economical as it can all be printed on one sheet, whereas if there is a different text and cover weight, they have to be printed on separate sheets.

Omnia is a very bulky paper so as just an 8pp saddle stitched, the 200gsm weight works really well.

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Printed offset litho in CMYK throughout.

Image reproduction is paramount but it was also important that the publication also projected the tactility of the interiors and in the image below the detail of the bar area.  An ordinary feeling silk or gloss coated paper wasn't an option, so Omnia fitted the bill perfectly.

The outside front and back covers are hot foil blocked in silver foil.

Printing is by Stuart Van Den Bergh at Intaglio Communications based in London.

https://www.radissonblu-edwardian.com/manchester-hotel-gb-m2-5gp/gbmanche
http://www.intaglioltd.co.uk/

Posted by Justin Hobson 07.01.2023

Jobs from the past - Number 166

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 one is from 2014...

Guardian News & Media sustainability report 2014

This is the printed summary of the Guardian News & Media sustainability report. The whole 2014 report was available online but this is the printed report produced to give out to staff and partners.

The size of the report is 148mm square, saddle stitched and has a 4pp cover and 16pp text. The publication is printed on our Shiro Echo, Bright White which is 100% recycled and also carries FSC certification.

The report is beautifully illustrated by Laurent Cilluffo.

http://www.laurentcilluffo.com/

Design is by the in-house design team at The Guardian. Production was handled by Leon Abrahams.

Print is by Cantate, a division of the John Good  and was handled by Jason Maclaren.

http://www.laurentcilluffo.com/

https://www.johngood.com/

Posted by Justin Hobson 01.09.2023

Baines & Fricker swing tags

Established in 2011, Baines&Fricker design and make furniture and accessories for the modern home and contract sector. Products are designed and made from their Brighton workshop using British materials wherever possible.The swing tags for the furniture and accessories have been designed and produced by Emily Macaulay at Stanley James Press, a "design company, specialising in the design and production of printed goods"


Photograph by Curtis James http://www.thisisbeyondwork.com/

The swing tags have been produced in just one colour on our Flora Anice 350gsm and then punched and strung with a coloured skein.

Detail showing the stringing:

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For those not familiar with Flora, it is a 30% recycled paper (and FSC accredited) with natural, deliberately visible, inclusions and fibres. It comes in nine different shades and has a character all of it's own! Below is detail showing the surface an inclusions:

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This project is a superb example of choosing the correct stock for the job, adding minimal print processes and a lovely touch, such as the skein. A wonderful, simple, quality result. 

Design, Print and production by Stanley James Press

https://www.bainesandfricker.net/
http://www.stanleyjamespress.com/

Posted by Justin Hobson 30.08.2023.

Cutler and Gross

Cutler and Gross is a distinctly British eyewear brand, founded in 1969 by Graham Cutler and Tony Gross, who met at optometry school in Northampton. This idiosyncratic eyewear brand has been at the forefront of the optical fashion for the past 40 years.

This look-book is a beautifully produced piece of literature, which has some gorgeous design cues, including the three hole-sewn binding.

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Size of the brochure is A4 (297x210mm). It has a 4pp cover with a 16pp text. It is printed on Omnia 200gsm cover and 120gsm text. Omnia gives the uncoated. tactile feel but reproduces the fine detail of the glasses and the flesh tones superbly. Printed offset litho in CMYK.

Centre spread showing three hole sewn binding

There is lots of plain unprinted paper in the design, which gives the whole publication a lovely feeling of space - very uncluttered.

Below is the detailing of the three hole sewn binding.

And here is something that I hope will demonstrate the tactile nature of Omnia - the below detail image is where you can see the visible, natural texture of the paper and the way it reproduces images superbly.

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Design and art direction is by Exposure. Creative director is Robin Ek. Photographer is Marius W Hansen. Print production is by Principal Colour. 

 

https://www.cutlerandgross.com/

https://www.exposure.net/london/

www.principalcolour.co.uk

Posted by Justin Hobson 25.08.2023