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

How about this for an annual report?

This Annual Report is an A2 finished size ...yes that's 594x420mm! It's massive! It's for the Manchester & Cheshire Dogs Home and it's lovely.

Feast your eyes!

Titled "Street Life" it' about life on the streets ...you get the idea!

Photography is by Guy Farrow (v.nice!)
The project was handled by Creative Director Steve Royle at The Chase in Manchester. The Designer was Mike Roberts.

It's printed on Redeem 100% Recycled 100gsm. It is A2 size 16pp and is just folded, no binding - lovely!

It was printed by DXG Media in Cheshire who have made a really good job of it.

http://www.thechase.co.uk/

http://www.dogshome.net/

Eames DCW Chairs

This is a lovely poster produced by "I Love Dust" which goes with their self initiated project using a pair of Eames DCW chairs. The poster is A2 size, silkcreened in 2 colours with a 1 colour reverse.

The poster is printed on Redeem 100% Recycled 130gsm which gives it that "aged" feel. The poster is being held up (but you can't see her!) by designer, Jodie Silsby.

Below is a pic of the finished chairs, to read more about the project, check out http://ilovedust.wordpress.com/

It was kind of Jodie to send me the posters ...I don't suppose there's any chance of getting the chairs as well? ha ha!

http://www.ilovedust.com/

The Field

This is a very simple and well designed little book.

The Field by Gary O'Connor published by Transition Editions, designed by Untitled.

The dimensions are 128x198mm which is a very pleasing size in the hand. It only has 28pp but it is enough text to section sew and has a nice square spine.It is just printed in one colour (black) and is purely typographic, there are no images or illustrations.

The text is printed on Neptune Unique SoftWhite 120gsm which gives it a neutral "book" feel. The dustjacket is on Astralux 1 sided 90gsm with the solid blue printed on the coated side and solid green on the uncoated side and folded up as you can see above.

...and thank you to Glenn and David for the kind note! http://www.untitledstudio.com/

Condensed 04

Like many of you, this morning, I have received my copy of ISTD Condensed 04 in the post.

This is a good read and always something in it to inspire.



In this issue there are:

1. The Art of Lost Words - a review of an exhibition by Studio Zwei by Andreas Pohancenik.

2. Looking backwards, moving forwards an article by Michael Johnson who knits the subjects of Massimo Vignelli, shoulder pads and Akzidenz, together.

3. Peter Dawson writes about the talk given to ISTD members in June by Wim Crouwel.

4. An interview by Jonathan Doney with David Brown, sundial maker and letter cutter.

The spread above shows a job which really caught my eye. I hadn't seen it before today. It is a silksreened map of Iraq, by NB:Studio displaying the words of the speech by Donald Rumsfeld about knowns and unknowns (under the title"Embrangled") It's a very powerful piece...

And now for the paper plug! It's printed on Redeem 100% Recycled 100gsm. It's printed in single colour and shows what a beautiful solid you can get on this paper...

It is printed by Gavin Martin Associates (www.gavinmartin.co.uk)

If you aren't already a member, you should really think about joining - there are many benefits, this is just one! www.istd.org.uk

It's not just the big jobs that count....

I don't only want to write about large lavish productions as quite often the best literature is the well considered, nicely executed smaller project.

This job is for the Fulham Horticultural Society and is an A5 size book. There are the entry tickets as well. All printed in one colour.

Simple and lovely. Designed by Jane Chipchase.

The jobs are printed on Colorset Tuscan Brown and Pink Ice. Colorset is 100% Recycled.

And thank you for the note Jane.....

jane.studio@btinternet.com