You can read more about the project here: https://www.power.film/
With thanks to Hilary Powell for the images and the introduction to the project.
Posted by Justin Hobson 05.07.2022
Tuesday, 5 July 2022
Banknotes printed on PaperWise
POWER is a show and do project—tracking the real-time progress and pitfalls of building a solar POWER STATION across the rooftops of North East London via enacting a grassroots Green New Deal. It involves mass participation art, documentary film and cooperative energy as a diverse community come together to recognise our collective power and quite literally create it—moving from consumers to producers of energy. This is a public work of art involving practical thinking through making—collaborating with people and photons to explore and expand our relationships with each other and the sun we all live under.
In 2018 they opened a ‘rebel bank’ in a former high street bank and printed paper money. This was part of a Bank Job. Find out more here. In May 2022 the bank will be issuing a new form of currency—the Greenbacks.
The plan - to raise £100,000 by end of July 2022 and carry on to £1Million.
The original Greenbacks that became the dollar were a form of sovereign money creation.
POWER’s Greenbacks are a form of money creation and economic stimulus that will directly back a grassroots Green New Deal now as the proceeds of their exchange for sterling will be fed directly into POWER—shared 50/50 between building the (solar) POWER STATION as template and demand and building community wealth working with an ecosystem of organisations both doing this and fire fighting cuts and their consequences.
The greenbacks were printed in public in May 2022 in Walthamstow, NE London by a team of local people trained in the methods used and paid at London Living Wage. The printing processes used is a combination of offset litho, Riso, Silkscreen (UV ink) and hot foil blocking - amazing!
A wonderful project! ...and what about the paper?
Friday, 1 July 2022
Jobs from the past - Number 152
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...
New Brook Buildings 2010
Here is a job which that just exudes fantastic quality of both print and finishing (oh, and of course a pinch of all right design as well!). The project is a brochure for a property called New Brook Buildings.
Size is 240x330mm. Key points of interest is the fantastic de-bossing on the front cover (which if you enlarge the pic below, you should be able to see). It is also "swiss-bound" (explanation below) and the text is stepped with divider pages (printed with mono imagery).
Below pic shows the Swiss binding. For those that are unfamiliar with this type of binding, it is essentially a section sewn or perfect bound binding method which has a "lip" of about 15/20mm of cloth wrapped around the spine. The cloth covered spine is stuck flat on the reverse of the text block with a strip of glue into a 4pp cover with a "freestanding" spine which means that the cover (which can often be very springy with normal adhesive binding) sits very flat.
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The text is stepped and is very tricky from a production point of view, especially with this type of binding. This has been done exceptionally well.
Below is the opening spread - inside front cover on left, stepped text on right.
The paper used is our Omnia - 320gsm on the cover and 120gsm for the text. The reason that Omnia was chosen is because it would beautifully reproduce the photography with the rich imagery of locations, the solid reds and detailed images. Of course the most important thing is for the publication to be special - with the reproduction that you would expect on a silk or gloss but with a natural tactile uncoated feel. Some of the spreads below:
Design is by London design agency dn&co who specialise in property branding. Creative Director was Ben Dale. It was printed by Push based in Bermondsey, who are sadly no longer in business.
Post by Justin Hobson 01.07.2022
Tuesday, 28 June 2022
Alexander McQueen Winter Gift Guide
The Alexander McQueen brand was founded by designer Alexander McQueen in 1992 and is now part of the international Gucci group. The creative director is Sarah Burton and this publication is the Winter gift guide.
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A thumbnail guide on inside back pages...
A particular favourite of mine is the "Knuckle Box" clutch bag! but then Alexander McQueen originally earned the reputation of being "the hooligan of English fashion"
https://www.alexandermcqueen.com/gb
http://www.identityprint.co.uk/
Posted by Justin Hobson 28.06.2022
Thursday, 23 June 2022
Astralux Range Swatches
ASTRALUX is the market leading range of cast coated papers and boards produced in Italy by the Favini Crusinallo paper mill. 'Cast Coated' papers and boards have an extremely high gloss, reflective surface on one side with an uncoated reverse. The weight range is 80gsm - 350gsm in white and is also available in 27 shades (including metallics and pearlescents) and we have some beautiful swatches...
http://www.favini.co.uk/
Posted by Justin Hobson 23.06.2022
Tuesday, 21 June 2022
Marmoreal by dzek
Marmoreal is an engineered marble for architectural surfaces developed by Dzek in collaboration with the British designer Max Lamb. The graphic and immersive visual qualities of this engineered marble have also been harnessed in pieces of furniture, developed to illustrate the material’s capabilities beyond the typical two-dimensional expressions common to architectural surfaces.
It is concertina folded both horizontally and vertically as you can see in birdseye image below... The whole publication is printed offset litho on our Offenbach Bible 60gsm and it looks and feels absolutely gorgeous - it flops and folds in a delightful way when handling the publication as I hope these images demonstrate.
which folds out flat as below
The striking Marmoreal poster, which shows this amazing material...
Reverse, with details about the material together with images and the items of furniture made using Marmorial.
Photography is by Frank Hülsbömer. The publication is printed offset litho in CMYK and the colour reproduction on the Offenbach Bible is excellent, as you can see in the detail image below.
Field Projects, a London based studio, is responsible for the superb art direction and design. Creative Director on the project is Tom Watt.
...and many thanks for Tom for kindly sending me file copies and a lovely note.
https://dzekdzekdzek.com/marmoreal#marmoreal
http://maxlamb.org/157-marmoreal/
http://www.field-projects.com/
https://www.frankhuelsboemer.de/
This piece of literature works as both product information guide and promotional poster. Size is 838 x 590mm folding down to 148mm square. It folds into a 40pp broadsheet with an additional 8pp of 100mm high flaps.
The below image shows the way it concertina's from top to bottom (vertical folds) before folding horizontally.
https://dzekdzekdzek.com/marmoreal#marmoreal
http://maxlamb.org/157-marmoreal/
http://www.field-projects.com/
https://www.frankhuelsboemer.de/
Posted by Justin Hobson 21.06.2022
Friday, 17 June 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.
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.
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.
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Tuesday, 14 June 2022
Orozco Garden
The South London Gallery’s permanent Orozco Garden first opened in 2016 and was created over two years by leading international artist Gabriel Orozco, with support by 6a Architects and horticulturalists at the Royal Botanical Gardens, Kew. This publication celebrates the project five years later, exploring the narrative of how this unique space came to life.
The 128pp casebound book is 215 × 280mm. A variety of materials have been used throughout the book in reference to the colours and textures found in the garden. The text is printed on a combination of uncoated and coated paper (I don't know which ones) and two differing shades of recycled grey paper for the front and back covers like the York stone bricks...
Looks and feels beautiful and a wonderful example of where choosing the right materials that work with the subject makes a good job an exceptional one.
There is a section printed on Crush Kiwi 120gsm including a gatefold, chosen in sympathy with the foliage in the garden.
Crush is made partly using the residue from the industrial processing of crushed citrus fruit, coffee, nuts, olives, kiwi, corn, lavender cherries and grapes, these agro-industrial "end of life" products replacing up to 15% of conventional tree pulp. This is combined with 40% recycled fibres (post consumer waste) and the remainder is FSC virgin pulp and the product is FSC certified. The range is produced using green energy and is carbon balanced at the mill gate (we can also supply the paper in the UK, certified as carbon balanced).
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Design is by Wolfe Hall and printing is by Graphius.
Posted by Justin Hobson 14.06.2022
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