Coast A/W 2009

This is a FAAAAAAAANTASTIC job!

It's the Autumn/Winter 09 lookbook for Coast and it's just looks amazing!

The job is printed on OMNIA with an Offenbach Bible wraparound jacket.


Key amazing things are:
1. Solid metallic gold on the cover looks great on the Omnia (as do the images but that goes without saying!)
2. Job is three-hole-sewn which gives the job a lovely quality
3. 6 page cover cleverly holds the Offenbach in place and also covers up the DVD.
4. The jacket/wrap works really well as a poster (quite often on jobs this trick doesn't quite work but on this one it does).
5. .....and it just looks and feels great!

Above is the outside of the wrap, below is the inside.

Design is by Six Creative (http://www.six-creative.com/)

Print is by Principal Colour (http://www.principalcolour.co.uk/)

Photography is by Lachlan Bailey (http://www.streetersnewyork.com/)

It is just a really lovely job. Well art directed and designed, great images and good print and finishing.

http://www.coast-stores.com/

I've treated myself!

Now many of you will know if you've received a note from me, that I normally write using a fountain pen. I can't really say why, it's probably because I'm a bit old fashioned and I quite like traditional things. Many people use an ink pen because using a nib improves the legibility of their handwriting, sadly that's not the case with me!

Anyway, quite by chance a new shop has opened (in Tonbridge of all places) which is a pen shop and it's a veritable aladdins cave for pen lovers. They combine an offer of restored vintage pens with the latest modern offerings from Lamy and Sailor.

And here's what I've treated myself to...


It's a 1995 Shaeffer endorsement set with a solid Oak base. It was brand new and boxed and very good value.

I know that you will all feel that the design of their website could be improved - but get over that - and have a look at http://www.andys-pens.co.uk/ - they have some really amazing things ...and if you venture to Tonbridge to have a look at the shop, don't forget to look me up.

By the way the shop is owned and run by a guy called Andy.

No Days Off!

Here is a fantastic range of literature from design company, No Days Off.

There is a collection of Staionery, Posters and Cards which have all been used in an exhibition.

Unusually, they are printed Letterpress by Adams of Rye - really nice work.....

All printed using our Colorset range...

http://www.nodaysoff.com/

...and thank you Patrick for the lovely note!

DO YOU BELIEVE IN GHOSTS?

This is the printed look book produced by Ghost which went with the orgami swallows that Eng made (see previous post 10th July).

As I'm sure you can see from these images, it is a beautiful piece. Photography and reproduction is superb.


It's a 32pp self cover. Size is A3 and it's printed on Marazion Ultra 90gsm.

Photography is by Carlotta Manaigo
Art Direction by Modernist
Printing is by Push



The above spread is my favourite. The image on the left has a real "ethereal" quality in the actual printed job.

Thank you to Chirag for getting some file copies for me, much appreciated.

http://www.ghost.co.uk/

http://www.push-print.com/

Ellipsis

This is a lovely collection of publications. Ellipsis is the latest series of publications from publishers Sylph Editions.

The books are published in a series of three presenting a trio of contemporary writers.

Text is all "french folded" sections printed in two colour on Offenbach Bible. The 8pp cover is printed on Avebury Recycled Wove 170gsm. Size is 215x120mm. They have a lovely light "airy feel".

The are held together using a "belly-band" also printed on Avebury.

Design is by Ornan Rotem.

www.sylpheditions.com

Digital Music

I knew the day was coming when digital printing would catch up with the quality of Litho, but I didn't think it would be this soon! We supplied our Omnia material for a promotional sample for printers Good News Press (based in Essex) to promote their Indigo digital press. Well I am absolutely stunned by the result, it is amazing.

It looks and feels just like a litho job and doesn't have that digitally printed "feel" or "look" that could be said of jobs in the past. It has to be said that it is in part down to the paper, which is not one of those super smooth high white "digital" papers that most of the "bash it out brigade" digital printers tend to use!

Design is by Turnbull Ripley and photography is by Steve Gullick.If you want to get hold of your own copy, I suggest you e-mail Mark Carey (mark@goodnewspress.co.uk)

http://www.turnbullripley.co.uk/

http://www.gullickphoto.com/

Our new equipment has arrived!!!!

Now many of you will know that we at Fenner Paper are a bit unusual (in many ways!) but we are especially different in the fact that we are one of the few, if not only paper companies, that can offer wiro bound dummies. We bought our first wiro machine back in 1994 and have been happily binding ever since.

Some of you may know that we actually supply loops/wires to finishing companies and therefore we deal direct with the wire manufacturers who also make commercial machines. The desktop model we bought back in '94 had many features that other "office" machines didn't.To cut a long story short, Johnson Banks needed a wiro machine for their V&A fete project (see previous post 17.07.09) and me having praised the features of ours they bought one. Well when we saw the NEW model come in for JB, we just knew we had to have one as well (16 years has rather taken it's toll on our old one). It is a fantastic machine! The key features being that you can bind up to 360mm, it has square punches (most manual machines have round holes) and you can remove each individual pin (at the flick of a switch) .

It's a bit pricier than the home/office machines that you can get through stationery catalogues which are OK if all you want to bind is A4, but this machine has amazing versatility and it's made to last. The purpose of this post is really to tell you that we have a great new machine which is better for us to make dummies for you!

...but if anyone is interested in buying one, we do sell them! just email me: justin@fennerpaper.co.uk