Sprayed Catalogue

Now this is going to be quite a long article, but as it's almost certainly the best piece of work that's appeared on this blog this year, I make no apologies....

 

This is the sublime catalogue produced to accompany last Summer's exhibition at the Gagosian Gallery in London, called Sprayed. I wrote about the invitations, earlier this year.

This extensive exhibition spanning four generations explores the myriad ways in which artists have employed the impulsive yet de-personalized and non-gestural forces of spray. It begins with Paul Klee's work on paper Seltsames Theater (1929), where he improvised with a blowpipe to achieve hazy background effects in a circus scene. This tentative experiment presaged the bold and diverse artistic licence that would come with the post-war advent of aerosol paint as a consumer product and the use of the industrial paint compressor. (Gagosian)

Size of the catalogue is 295x250mm, portrait. It contains 232 pages in total and remarkably contains 16 different colours of our Colorset 120gsm, as text pages. 

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The below image of the fore-edge of the catalogue gives you some idea of just how much colour is in the whole publication.

The majority of the artists work is printed on a Gloss coated paper, called Garda Gloss 170gsm, with the Colorset pages used for references, quotations and also for reproducing some images, as in the pic above, where the right hand page is printed on Colorset Natural.

 Below image showing Pantone 877U (Silver) printed on Colorset Nero 120gsm

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To further complicate the collation and binding, there are a number of 'throw-outs' throughout the catalogue.

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The below image shows the acknowledgements and publishers information - printed on Colorset Indigo (in Pantone silver 877U) and Colorset Ash120gsm

The exhibition features works from over fifty artists and is organised by Jona Lueddeckens and Greg Bergner. There are two essays: Conjugating Spray by John Corbett and Aerosol by Nicholas de Monchaux. The below image shows Aerosol, printed in Blue 072U.

The 8pp cover is also printed on our Colorset Nero 270gsm and was specifically ordered as a 'Short Grain' sheet so the grain direction is correct. The 'jacket' only appears on the front of the book and is affixed along the spine, wrapping around the cover with the flap tucking inside the front cover. The jacket is printed on Chorus Lux Silk 130gsm.

The pictures below attempt to show the way the jacket works...

The job is PUR bound, showing the colourful contents superbly:

Design is by Graphic Thought Facility in London. They regularly produce publications for the Gagosian and you can see many other superb catalogues on their website. I doubt I could do justice in attempting to explain the way in which GTF crafted this catalogue. I will however, just explain that to accomplish this masterpiece, they produced litho printed proofs on more than the 16 colours of paper they ended up using - proofs that were CMYK and also in four special colours - pictured below.

Of course it goes without saying that this result was only possible thanks to the relationship that GTF has with the printer of the project, Pureprint. To have met the exacting standards of reproduction for the gallery and each of the artists involved plus producing over half the book on a multiple of different coloured papers is really quite some achievement. The whole project was printed Offset Litho in CMYK and, according to my notes ...seven special colours!

http://www.gagosian.com/exhibitions/sprayed--june-11-2015
http://www.graphicthoughtfacility.com/
http://www.pureprint.com/

Posted by Justin Hobson 19.07.2016

Archive

Archive Homestore and Kitchen is a design-led lifestyle store offering a unique and fresh collection of interesting and beautiful homewares, stationery, bits and pieces for children, food and drink. The outlet is located in a former military arch space in Ramsgate’s Royal Harbour. Archive particularly showcases and champions Kent’s designers, makers, growers and producers and they also do amazing lunches and lots of cake.

BOB  Design named this Kentish treasure trove and created its visual identity — an arch housing all forms of form and all forms of fun ...and this is where the paper comes in! the swing tags, price tickets, cards and menu sheets are all printed on our Plexus 350gsm, which is a rich, recycled, brown coloured board.

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 They have all been silkscreen printed by Harvey Lloyd Screenprint, who have made a beautiful job of printing the many different vibrant and mainly fluorescent, colours.

Transformation of the space is by Haptic, a firm of Architects who have appeared on this blog many times before. Bob Design applied the identity throughout the interior and across print and web and you can see more on this link: http://bobdesign.co.uk/work/archive-homestore-kitchen/

Design is by BOB Design in London. Creative Director is Mireille Burkhardt. Print is by Harvey Lloyd Screenprint.

http://archivehomestore.co.uk/
http://www.hapticarchitects.co.uk/
http://www.bobdesign.co.uk/
http://harveylloydscreens.co.uk/

Posted by Justin Hobson 15.07.2016

ISTD Student Awards 2016

Last Friday, I was invited to  the ISTD Student awards ceremony, hosted by Pentagram at their studio in Notting Hill with one of the newest partners Luke Powell, presenting the certificates to the successful students and tutors.

It was a beautiful summer evening, and as with all ISTD events it was a very warm and friendly occasion with beer, wine and nibbles all laid on.

This presentation evening was for the main Student Assessment scheme held in the UK and Ireland. Students from Universities and Institutions around the UK and Ireland answered a number of briefs written by the ISTD's Education team. This is an international education scheme and the assessments for other regions of the globe are on-going and in fact on Friday, there were two awards made to two young ladies who came all the way from Sri Lanka – Sushanthi Dissanayake and Fathimah Azmah Nihar from Academy of Design, Columbo, Sri Lanka.

ISTD organisers and board members, Freda Sack and John Paul Dowling (education director) talked through the judging process and gave their thanks to the tutors, without whom the scheme would surely flounder. 

Awards being presented by Luke Powell:

 Importantly, there were two commendations awarded to Chia-Lin Lin (who also picked up the Vincent Steer award) from London college of communication (LCC - tutor: Tony Pritchard) and Emile Toledo from University of West England, Bristol - tutor: Gabriel Solomons.

My thanks to the ISTD board for inviting me and as I have said many times on this blog before, it's very important to support organisations such as the ISTD and events such as this. A big thank you to all those members of the ISTD who freely give their time for the benefit of others, in particular, Freda Sack, who has been such an important figure in the society for so many years.

www.istd.org.uk
www.pentagram.co.uk

Posted by Justin Hobson 14.07.2016 

SWD - Design for the Arts

SWD is a graphic design company based in Holborn London. They have a wide and varied client base and their work covers an extensive range of disciplines. This piece of literature is one of a series of promotional pieces - and this one is particularly aimed at 'Design for the Arts' where they have  broad experience.

Printed offset Litho in CMYK plus a special pale green. It's printed on Omnia 120gsm, which gives it a lovely tactile feel but the images have reproduced superbly. Finished size of the piece is 140mm square.

Folding out to 420mm...

and out again...

to reveal the centre spread - an image promoting The Rabbit Hole at the Hampstead Theatre.

Below image shows the reverse of the mailer.

Design is of course by SWD, Creative Director is Shaun Webb. Printing is by Chadbon Printing based in London.

http://www.swd.uk.com/
chris.chadbon@btinternet.com

Posted by Justin Hobson 12.07.2016

High Five Friday!

Here is a card from a range of greeting cards called Thefty from London based card publisher Roger La Borde. This is a 4pp card printed offset litho in two colours and I thought it was important to write about this card as it has been further embellished with the addition of thermography on the front of the card.

The size of the card is 147x100mm, which is what Roger la Borde describe as their Petite size. the card is printed on Shiro Echo, Bright White 300gsm, which is 100% recycled and has FSC Mix accreditation.

I wasn't able to catch the thermography in both colours (black and green) against the light with my unsophisticated camera equipment (!) so I've shot the thermo'd areas individually, as you can see below:

I have written about thermography before, so if you are interested to find out about the process, please click on the following link: http://justinsamazingworldatfennerpaper.blogspot.co.uk/2014/02/what-is-number-2.html

The cards are published by Roger la Borde and the design is by Helena Maratheftis.

The cards are printed by Lion House Press who are in West London and the thermography is by Graphite Creative who are based in St Albans.

http://www.rogerlaborde.com/

Posted by Justin Hobson 08.07.2016

New Designers 2016

Yesterday evening, I went to the New Designers exhibition and awards at the Business Design Centre in Islington.

New Designers is the exhibition for emerging design, full of innovation and fresh thinking, covering all aspects from textiles and fashion to product design, visual comms etc. It takes place over two weeks, with each part focusing on a different set of design disciplines and featuring its own Awards Programme. The show sees over 3,000 of the most talented, newly graduated designers from the UK's leading universities come together to exhibit.

I saw many of the tutors and part time lecturers that I know from the various universities and colleges who have stands at the exhibition. Particular mention shall go to University of Portsmouth (UOP) who kindly invited me along.

I found the UOP stand and was invited to do a bit of ad hoc silk-screen printing, which as you can see, I was happy to do.... 

...only to realise that I was on the UOP Illustration course stand and not the graphic design course! - but I got a nice print out of it.

...eventually I found the BA Hons graphic design for UOP on a nearby stand:

...together with their superbly produced yearbook, printed on StarFine  - but I'll write about that another time....

In particular. thanks to Dan McCabe and all the staff and students at UOP.

www.portsmouthgraphicdesign.co.uk
www.newdesigners.com
http://www.port.ac.uk/

Posted by Justin Hobson 07.07.2015

Collection 004

Collection 004 from Toogood reinterprets some of the ingenuity of the resourceful women of wartime Britain. The transformation of fallen parachutes into silk lingerie and the reusing of ripcords and the shades of airforce blue and olive drab are the inspiration and source for this collection. The pieces have names such as The Milkman Jacket, The Umpire Coat and the Printer Tunic.

This is the promotional literature, a small folded up piece measuring 70x100mm, folding out to 280x600mm. It is printed Offset Litho in four colour process, one side only, on our lovely Offenbach Bible 60gsm, giving it a lightweight feel but with a beautiful quality.

The large format concertina folds this way...



...and then this way:

The advantage on concertina folding is that you are reducing the stress on the paper and not trapping air in the folds, whereas if you fold paper on itself, on itself and on itself etc - you will get what is called a "Crow's foot" - if you don't know about this or haven't heard this expression, I wrote about it, at length, here: http://justinsamazingworldatfennerpaper.blogspot.co.uk/2014/04/what-is-number-4.html. This is a perfect example of a folded piece without a crow's foot!

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The Image above is one of the unfolded examples I was given, so definitely no crow's foot there!

 

Creative Director is Faye Toogood and the designer on the project is Catherine Acornley. Printing is by Chadbon Printing based in London.

 

http://t-o-o-g-o-o-d.com/

chris.chadbon@btinternet.com

Posted by Justin Hobson 05.07.2016

Jobs from the past - Number 81

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 here's one from 2005. 

Levi's Vintage Clothing

Spring & Summer 2005 

 

Over 125 years after the birth of the Blue Jean in 1873, Levi Strauss & Co established the Levi's Vintage Clothing sub-brand; resurrecting the past by creating exact reproductions of original jeanswear from the 130 year old design archives. Based around authentic pieces, denim garments are made in the US from historic quality XX selvage denim from original narrow looms.

This is the skilfully crafted lookbook for the range. It is a 'pocket book' size of 180x125mm, portrait and is an 'unfussy' self cover. There are 28pp and it's saddle stitched.

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The lookbook is printed offset litho in CMYK on our Redeem 100% Recycled 130gsm which is a neutral white shade giving the publication a genuinely vintage look and feel, However, as you'll see if you click on the images, the reproduction of the images stands up superbly.

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To give you a sense of scale, the book is pictured below with a couple of everyday items. As I mentioned, it's a handy 'pocket size' but looking at the pictures it's easy to imagine this was an A4 or over size project.

Art direction and design is by a studio called the Kitchen, who were based in Margaret St, London W1. According to my notes, the creative directors and designers who were there at the time were Phil Evans, Phil Sims, Ramon Marin and Mat Jones. Sadly the studio disappeared in the mid 2000's. Photography is by Jason Tozer.

The outstanding printing is by Push Print based in Rotherhithe, London - and as I often say about these 'jobs from the past', it looks a good and fresh today as it did 11 years ago.

...and as if to prove that it stands the test of time, even though this is a job from 2005 which itself is about vintage clothing, the Levi's Vintage Clothing range is still available!
http://www.levi.com/GB/en_GB/features/levis-vintage-clothing
http://www.push-print.com/

Posted by Justin Hobson 01.07.2016