The Kensington

The Doyle Collection is a carefully curated collection of eight Irish family-owned luxury and urban hotels. Each hotel has a strong identity that is closely connected to its location. Set in the heart of one of London’s most desirable neighbourhoods, The Kensington’s grand stucco façade is characteristic of this affluent 19th Century district. With 126 guest rooms and 24 suites, this is a wonderfully luxurious hotel.

Branding agency, Brave New World  undertook an extensive re-branding exercise of the parent brand and of each individual hotel. The work included everything from strategy to interior design, website, high-profile advertising campaigns and the literature for each hotel.

The size of the brochure is 260x185mm, portrait and is saddle stitched. The cover is printed on an uncoated 300gsm board.  

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The text material chosen was our Omnia, which would beautifully reproduce the photography with the rich interiors and exteriors superbly  ...and it looks wonderful! The 20pp text is on Omnia White 150gsm, printed offset litho in CMYK throughout.

The brochure is saddle stitched using three stitches:

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 upholstery and the extraordinary reproduction of the mirrored surfaces. An ordinary feeling silk or gloss coated paper wasn't an option, so Omnia fitted the bill perfectly.

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Omnia is a very bulky paper but with a 20pp text and the saddle stitching, it lays nice and flat allowing each spread to be enjoyed without 'fighting' against the binding.

Branding and creative direction is by Brave New World. The designer on this project is Caroline King. Print by 21 Colour, based in Glasgow.

https://www.doylecollection.com/hotels/the-kensington-hotel
http://bravenewworld.co/
http://www.21colour.co.uk/
http://www.carolinelking.com/

Posted by Justin Hobson 18.11.2021

Beatrice Warde Memorial Lecture 2021

The 2021 Beatrice Warde Memorial Lecture is being held at the St Bride Foundation in London on Thursday - why don't you go along and stimulate the brain.... 

‘There are bad types and good types, and the whole science and art of typography begins after the first category has been set aside.’ Beatrice Warde 

This is both and online and in-person event and is the fiftieth anniversary of the Beatrice Warde Memorial Lecture. For this special event, they have invited seven designers, type designers and typographers to talk about good types/bad types. 

The speakers are... David Williams, Ellen Lupton, Erik van Blokland, Liron Lavi Turkenich, Martina Flor, Paul Barnes and Tré Seals.

You can book HERE for both online and in person tickets. It's very reasonable and you might learn a lot!

https://www.sbf.org.uk/

Posted by Justin Hobson 12.11.2021

Namma by Kricket Menu

Kricket is a modern Indian restaurant group with three restaurants in Soho, Brixton and the former Television Centre (White City). Founded by partners Rik Campbell and chef Will Bowlby, Kricket has recently expanded into the takeaway market, launching a new brand Namma by Kricket.

The partners were inspired by their travels across India and while they were in Mumbai they hired a couple of Royal Enfield Bullet motorcycles. It was this trip that inspired both the takeaway brand and their dishes with a twist.

The 8pp menu is a 'pocket size' 135x90mm, folding out to 360mm long...

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Top image shows the inside and the bottom image shows the outside, featuring a Royal Enfield Bullet Motorcycle. The below image shows the 8pp concertina fold

The Namma by Kricket branding is by &Smith and they created a suite of literature including the menus and other collateral.

Designer on this project is Cécile Dumetier. The project is printed by Gavin Martin Colournet and is produced on their HP Indigo press, printed on our  Tree Free, Cream 250gsm, which is an off white, natural board, manufactured from 100% non-tree fibres.

https://www.namma.co.uk/
https://kricket.co.uk/
http://andsmithdesign.com/
https://www.gavinmartincolournet.co.uk/

Posted by Justin Hobson 12.11.2021

Fenner Paper launches PaperWise at COP26

Fenner Paper has launched PaperWise at an online event to coincide with the COP26 UN Climate Change Conference in Glasgow. PaperWise is an entirely new concept, a range of paper and board manufactured from agricultural waste - this is the stems and leaves left over the harvest and which is often left in the field or burnt.

At the online launch, Justin Hobson, Marketing Manager at Fenner Paper said “PaperWise users give a second life to agricultural waste. In doing so they lower their ecological footprint, add value to waste, and prevent wastage”

There are additional benefits: PaperWise is produced in factories in India and South America that make a big difference to local communities. Investments are made in education, infrastructure, and healthcare while the manufacturing process is geared toward safety, zero waste, and preserving local ecology.

Lifecycle analysis (LCA) conducted by the University of Amsterdam (IVAM) has concluded that the environmental impact is 47% lower than FSC-paper made from trees and 29% lower than recycled paper...

The natural shade, manufactured from 100% agri-waste is also completely unbleached and has lower Co2 emissions than virgin fibre or recycled papers.

The PaperWise range is held in stock by us at Fenner Paper in Tonbridge. European stocks are held in Rotterdam and include a wide range of packaging boards and lightweight papers with food approval, copier paper and even corrugated boards. 

You can read more about this new range HERE and about how this fits with the UN sustainable development goals...

The paper and boards are suitable for all print work and packaging, with a one side coated packaging board up to 465microns.

In December we will showing PaperWise at the Packaging Innovations Exhibition in Olympia and PaperWise founder Peter van Rosmalen will be there too. You can watch this 1 minute video about PaperWise by Peter here:

If you would like samples, please drop me an email justin@fennerpaper.co.uk or have a look at our website.

https://paperwise.eu/en/

Posted by Justin Hobson 09.11.2021

Change Everything

This show titled Change Everything, presents contemporary artists advocating for change through protest, and highlights the power of art in documenting and driving our future. Co-curated by Anthony Burrill and the depot_ in Shoreditch, the exhibition brings together artists, collectives and makers who are instigating social change through their work.

Following a pertinent year of worldwide upheaval and political unrest, the works shown encapsulate the ability of protest art to shift the narrative and capture the potential of a collective moment. Working with charity partner Music Declares Emergency, and incorporating a month-long events programme, the exhibition hopes to itself become a catalyst for change and conversation.

The exhibition exhibits original, limited editioned, new and archived works in textile, prints and photography. All works are for sale and parts of profits are donated to charity partner Music Declares Emergency, alongside other charities where relevant. 

The Private view was yesterday evening 

It was great to venture out and about to what was my first foray to a private view since the Covid crisis.

 

The artists collaborators and charity partners are as follows: Anthony Burrill,  Aida Wilde,  Brunel Johnson,  Fraser Muggeridge, Jeremy Deller, Joe Kibria, Kate Harrison, Music Declares Emergency,  Paris 68 Redux, People Dem Collective, Projections on Walls, Sarah Boris, Sarah-Joy Ford, Theo Hersey and Wired Magazine.

Pictured above are the A1 size prints by Anthony Burrill, which are silkscreen printed by Harvey Lloyd Screens on our Redeem 100% Recycled 80gsm, which looks and feels just right.

Thanks to Anthony for his lovely note and inviting me to the private view. You can buy the prints HERE.

https://www.thedepot.co.uk/

http://harveylloydscreens.co.uk/

https://anthonyburrill.com/

Posted by Justin Hobson 05.11.2021

St Bride Foundation lecture

Expanding the design canon: fresh perspectives on women in type and publishing

An evening as part of the ‘Women in Type’ Leverhulme Trust & University of Reading research project in celebration of St Bride Library’s 125th year. The lecture is on Zoom and is next Wednesday 10th November 7.00-9.00pm.

This talk will celebrate recent contributions to the field of graphic design history, which seek to shake established narratives to expand the design canon. The panel of speakers will share their thoughts on the imperative to reconsider women’s depiction in received design histories, and will highlight some past and present contributions by women to the fields of type, graphic design and publishing. The evening will also feature the launch of an exciting new website comprising a visualisation of the findings of the 'Women in Type’ Leverhulme Trust funded project.

With speakers Briar Levit, Rathna Ramanathan, Fiona Ross, Alice Savoie, Martha Scotford, Mathieu Triay.

You can book HERE - it's only £5 (plus concessions) so is excellent value for money ...BOOK NOW!

https://www.sbf.org.uk/whats-on/view/expanding-the-design-canon-fresh-perspectives-on-women-in-type-and-publishing/

Posted by Justin Hobson 03.11.2021

Jobs from the past - Number 144

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...

Heart of Glass - November 2002

This is the private view invitation for an exhibition at the Crafts Council Gallery in London. The invitation is the the opening of an exhibition titled Heart of Glass, featuring work of the artists Jean-Michel Othoniel, Tony Oursler, Katy Schimert, Kiki Smith, Jan Vercruysse, Not Vital and Robin Winters. 

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The size of the invitation is A5 (148 x 210mm) Landscape and is silkscreen printed on one side in one colour (red). The viewing apertures are die-cut, providing eyeholes to look through which is really effective.

The invite is printed on our Kemikal, Cotton White 1500mics which is a natural feeling, neutral white thick board - 1.5mm thick. so it gives great thickness, although it isn't as dense as other thick material that we do such as Monoblack. As you can see from the image below, the thickness makes this invitation work fantastically.

Design is by Andrew Collier, who works freelance in London.

As I recall the silkscreen printing was produced by Artomatic, who also ran a print boutique in Great Sutton Street EC1. Sadly they are no loger in existence. I wrote about Artomatic on this previous post here: http://justinsamazingworldatfennerpaper.blogspot.co.uk/2009/07/job-from-past.html

http://www.craftscouncil.org.uk/

Posted by Justin Hobson 01.11.2021

ASOS BLACK / PUMA

This is the launch literature for the first collaborative ASOS BLACK x PUMA collection. The collection is designed by John Mooney and the garments include t-shirts, technical jackets, tailored shirting together with backpacks and accessories.

Photographer, Jamie Morgan was commissioned to work on a series of portraits for use in both press, online and print literature. The models featured are young street artists pulled together from around the UK.

This project has an unusual format. Size is A5 (210x148mm) portrait and content is 24pp but it forms one long concertina (12 panels). On each end a piece of 1500micron Greyboard is mounted, forming the front and back covers. The front cover is silkscreened in black only. The long concertina, which is over 1.7 metres long, is formed by one join, hidden on the reverse of the concertina.

To engage with the street artist look and feel, a recycled, "urban" type paper was required although this is a little at odds with the Jamie Morgan's amazing images! The paper selected is our Redeem 100% Recycled in 240gsm which is a natural looking recycled product, but as you can see from these images, it prints amazingly! ...although that's in no small part due to the quality of original and the printer. The 240gsm weight, creased perfectly, allowing the pages to flow well without being too stiff and rigid.

Design and production is by Asos. Project manager is Ash Durrant, the Creative manager is Vassili Kouznetsov and the senior designer on the project is Jenna Murray. Print and finishing is by Push Print.

https://www.asos.com/

Posted by Justin Hobson 26.10.2021

The Modern House - postcard set

Established by Albert Hill and Matt Gibberd, The Modern House is the UK’s foremost estate agency, only selling modernist and contemporary architecture for over a decade.

"Selling Britain's Finest Modern Architecture" showing four properties in the format of a concertina postcard book.

  

The format is a 12pp A6 concertina. Flat size is 148x634mm, folding to 148x105mm. The concertina folds into a pre-creased 3mm spine. Printed CMYK offset litho and the cards are perforated.

The concertina is printed on Redeem 100% Recycled 315gsm, which prints beautifully and fits with the modernist, utilitarian architecture.

showing how the concertina folds into the spine

The superbly creased 3mm spine. It's touches such as this - good creasing - that make all the difference to a project like this:

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...and the other thing that shouldn't be overlooked is the perforations. As you can see from this picture, perforations can look great, even beautiful. These perfs. only look this good because the designer took the time to explain what he wanted to the printer. There are a selection of different perforation "bars" available at print finishers - so do ask a printer to get samples and to show you different types. If you don't convey your expectations to the printer, then they'll generally use the perforating bar that's on the machine and you may be disappointed.


Art direction and design is by Field Projects. Print production is by Michael Keyworth at Key Printers.

www.themodernhouse.net

http://field-projects.com/

sales@keyprinters.co.uk

Posted by Justin Hobson 22.10.2021

International Print Day 2021

Today is the day! October 20th is International Print Day 2021 which is the eighth IPD to date and will once again trend the planet through 24 hours of social media sharing. 

The idea is that the global print community will use social media to network, exchange knowledge and information, and proclaim their love for print and the people that make it possible by following and sharing using the hashtag #IPD21. Last year’s event generated on Twitter 384 Contributors / 3,735 Tweets / 18,297,446 Impressions and on Instagram 148 posts / 119 Contributors / 250 Comments / 2,835 Likes / 146,300 Impressions. The theme this year is #PrintAgain. It represents the revival of print in the marketing mix.

Print legend Frank Romano is involved and is live for a Project Peacock event. Below is the IPD poster produced by Craig Bower at Design That Rocks  

Navigator Paper has listed some 2021 trends for print, which I think are of interest...

"To celebrate, we take a look at the dynamics at work in the industry, how it has been affected by the coronavirus pandemic, and the trends set to shake up the global printing sector in 2021" 

1# Challenging global economic conditions: even before coronavirus. 

2# Post-coronavirus the market is struggling 

3# On-shoring and right-shoring as the pandemic disrupts supply chain 

4# The packaging market continues to thrive 

5# Creative marketers are returning to print 

6# Asia Pacific is expected to be the fastest-growing market 

7# The need to innovate 

8# The transition to digital print continues 

9# Metal is set to overtake plastic as the 3D printing material

You can read the whole article HERE

Enjoy the day ...and get busy with the hashtag on social media #IPD21 #PrintAgain

https://internationalprintday.org/

Posted by Justin Hobson 20.10.21

Paper price news...

An article written by Jo Francis, published today in Printweek about the recent increase in paper costs...

The fact is that all paper grades are increasing in price, which is very bad news if/when you are trying to convince a client to commit to printing.

You can read the article HERE

https://www.printweek.com/news/article/paper-prices-keep-going-up

Posted by Justin Hobson 19.10.2021