New ranges from Lagom

I have received two new ranges of Greetings Cards from Lagom.

The (predominantly) blue series called HYGGE are designed by Kelly Hyatt at Lagom and are printed in CMYK plus a special blue and a Gloss UV varnish .

The Monsieur Boudin series (below) is designed by LAB PARTNERS in San Francisco and features a very cute pooch, presumably called Monsieur Boudin! They are published in the UK by Lagom Design.
Both of these new ranges are printed on our uncoated OMNIA range (280gsm) - and for a bit of interesting product info, not only does it have a high bulk and tactile feel but unlike most uncoated products, UV varnish works really well! - if you want to see for yourself, you can always e-mail me and I'll send you an example...

www.lagomdesign.co.uk

Crispin Finn does it again!

I just received some more lovely samples from Anna Fidalgo at Crispin Finn. Silkscreen printed in one colour. Produced for the very talented illustrator, Emma Kelly.

The material used is our (lovely and oh, so competitively priced!) Matrisse 200gsm
I love the "Whilst you were out" note! as well.http://www.crispinfinn.com/
Emma Kelly: info@iliketodrawthings.com

PrintWeek Awards 2009

Last night it was the PrintWeek awards, held at the Grosvenor House Hotel in London. It's a glitzy affair and although I was invited (a big thank you to the wonderful Helen Morris) sadly, I couldn't go.

Anyway, by all accounts it was a great night (probably quite boozy!) ...the results and report of the evening is available on http://www.printweek.com/business/news/946356/PrintWeek-Awards-2009-winners-announced/

The above pic shows NOISE FIVE, Designed by Attik and produced by Evolution Print, winner of "Innovative Printer of the Year"

From the results, there are a few mentions that affect our side of the industry that are worthy of note:

Digital Printer of the Year - Screaming Colour (London) http://www.screamingcolour.com/

Innovative Printer of the Year - Evolution Print (Sheffield) http://www.evolutionprint.co.uk/

Brochure Printer of the Year - Chapter Press (London and Bucks) http://www.chapterpress.co.uk/

Annual Report Printer of the Year - Beacon Press (Sussex) http://www.beaconpress.co.uk/

Well done to all those companies that won Printweek awards - Quality is not dead!

www.printweek.com

The American School in London

This is a beautifully designed and produced "mini" prospectus for The American School in London. Design is by Powell Allen. Copy by Howard Fletcher is combined with some splendid portraits and photography by the wonderful Phil Sayer.

There is a strange thing about this job which I can't explain. I have just measured it to give the dimensions and was very surprised to find it is 150x210 - or in other words pretty much A5! BUT it just doesn't feel like an A5 job at all - if you had asked me before I measured it I would definitely have said it felt squarer, definitely portrait, but certainly squarer. Looking at it now I wonder if I get that feeling because the dustjacket isn't full height, coming in at only 180mm high? ...maybe - we shall never know!

Anyway, the dustjacket (on which the type is beautifully foiled in Orange and Grey) works very cleverly with the cover images.

Inside, the book is divided in sections by age with the text being on smaller "tipped in" sections (180x130mm) - again maybe this adds to the square feeling?

And now for the paper plug! It is printed on our Neptune Unique FSC , with a 300gsm Cover, 135gsm Text and 120gsm tip in leaves.

Print is by Push

http://www.asl.org/

http://www.powellallen.com/

http://www.philipsayerpartnership.com/

http://www.howardfletcher.co.uk/

http://www.push-print.com/

It's Nice That - Issue 2 - out NOW!

Yes, issue 2 of It's Nice That is out now - and if you pre-ordered your copy, you will also have received your Rob Ryan screenprint as well.

There's some amazing stuff in here, far too much to list but my particular favourite is the "camouflage" by Noma Bar (page 90/91).

Production details are all as my post for Issue#1 (25/06/2009) except for the colour of the Colorset on the cover.

Nice one again Alex and Will!

http://www.itsnicethat.com/

2010 Year Planner

The lovely Anna Fidalgo from Crispin Finn has sent me this excellent 2010 year planner. It is a full 700x1000mm (B1) size and is hand printed, silkscreened in two colours. The planner is produced on our Colorset 100% Recycled 120gsm in White.

It comes beautifully packaged in it's own brown paper bag and closed with a Crispin Finn seal.

A chance to get really organised for next year...

It looks far to nice to put on the wall and write on! ...but I will. Every good design studio should have one of these on the wall next year - and luckily you can, because they are available on the Crispin Finn website!

...and thank you Anna, for the lovely note.

...there's a lovely Tea Towel as well but I haven't got a picture of that yet - a great Christmas present idea!

http://www.crispinfinn.com/

'Mr Álmos' Big Pen Ship'

...nothing to do with paper but I thought this might be of interest:

'Mr Álmos' Big Pen Ship'Illustration Show

From the 22nd - 26th October 2009

The Rag Factory - 16 Heneage Street - London - E1 5LJ

For artists details, other stuff to look at

check out - http://www.bigpenship.blogspot.com/