Invitation

Now some people might have expected me to title this post using some crude pun (such as "Flocking Lovely Invite") but I know I am addressing a particularly sophisticated audience, so I'm sure that even my best Flocking jokes wouldn't raise a titter!

...anyway, this is a particularly beautiful wedding invitation produced on our Flockage Colours, in Bright Red 400gsm.

The inspiration for the colour of the invitation is from the colour of the hassocks (that's the name for the cushions that you kneel on in church) which are red in this particular church together with the "burlesque" themed entertainment at the reception. The Fleur de Leys device which is also used is another feature in the church.

Design is by Powell Allen

The invitations are A5 in size and foiled in one colour using Red Metallic Foil by Benwell Sebard

Incidentally it's probably worth noting that when I spoke to Chris Allen he made the point of telling me that it was a "cost effective" use of the material. Flockage is an expensive material, but because of the small quantity and the fact that only one process was being used on it (and waste is therefore minimal) a luxury, high impact impression was achieved for relatively low cost.

http://www.powellallen.com/
http://www.benwells.co.uk/

Sam Winston - Artist and Wordman!

I met Sam Winston last week to discuss a project. He's a very nice guy and very passionate about his materials and substrates, a bit like me! If you aren't familiar with his work ...take a look.
http://www.samwinston.com/
http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1360225971/a-dictionary-story-art-bookhttp://dictionarystory.blogspot.com/

Arts Council - Annual Review 2009

In the early summer I started to put together dummies in various formats for Intro for the Arts Council annual review - and last week I received the finished article ...and very nice it is too!

Size is 215x270mm Portrait. It has a 4pp cover and a 50pp text.

and now for the paper plug! ...it is printed on our lovely OMNIA 200gsm and 120gsm with a 12pp gloss section on Millennium Real Art 130gsm.

Photography is all great, as you would expect given the various arts subjects covered, but as there are 49 photography credits, I've decided not to list them!

It's printed by Seacourt (based in Oxfordshire) using waterless offset

Lead designer at Intro on this project was Adrian Talbot

http://www.introwebsite.com/

http://www.seacourt.net/

Great quote!

This is a lovely self promotional piece from Neil Tinson Studio who are based in Cornwall (...so for those people that think we're Londoncentric, think again)

It is A2 size folding to A5, printed in two special colours.

It is printed on our Clervaux [1 sided] 110gsm which is uncoated but smooth one side and toothy (roughish) on the reverse. Never heard of it? well that's because it's in a range of one, therefore we don't have a swatch or anything like that I'm afraid but if you'd like to see a Clervaux sample - drop me a line... justin@fennerpaper.co.uk

...and thank you for the nice note Neil.

http://www.neiltinson.co.uk/

It's nice that - issue 2

If you pre-order you get a Rob Ryan silkscreen print...
http://www.itsnicethat.com/publication/its-nice-that-issue-2
(see my previous post - 25/06/2009)

CMYK Board!

Have a look at this lovely self promotional piece for freelance designer Alex Parrott.

It's made up using 8 layers of COLORSET 270gsm (that's 2160gsm!) in CYMK colours and foiled in white.

It uses four COLORSET shades: Nero, Light Blue, Magenta and Solar.

It was produced by Downeys who have made a lovely job of duplexing the sheets and foiling in white on front and back.

It's worth making the point that although we (at Fenner Paper) don't offer a duplexing service (as another well known paper merchant based in Hull does) ...there are printers and finishers that offer this service at quite reasonable rates!

Good luck to Alex and anyone wishing to engage him can contact him on alex@alexparrott.co.uk and just pop the finders fee/commission cheque in the post to me!

...and thanks for the nice note Alex!

http://www.alexparrott.co.uk/

http://www.downey.co.uk/

A paper mill actually opens in the UK!

I've just returned from holiday to some good news!

Now many people will have heard me say about how paper manufacturing is virtually dead in the UK (which, sadly, in many ways it is) but here is a brand spanking new paper mill which has just started production here in the UK.

Now I don't want anyone to get too excited because it won't actually affect most of us in our sector of what is generally called the "fine papers" market as this new mill only produces recycled newsprint - just tonnes and tonnes of it - (just one grade and pretty much all the same weight and certainly no sheets! ...but it does at least give us in the paper industry some good news.

For those paper geeks out there, the technical information is as follows:
It is the world's largest recycled newsprint machine. The mill is called Palm Paper, a subsidiary of Germany-based Papierfabrik Palm. The paper machine was started at its King's Lynn site in Norfolk on 21 August, 3 weeks ahead of schedule (that's the Germans for you!)
The machine, which has a net width of 10.63m, is set to produce 400,000 tonnes of newsprint – all from 100% selected recycled fibre.

www.palmpaper.co.uk

Posted by Justin Hobson 07.09.2009