Thursday, 29 October 2009
Land Securities - Studio Awards 2009
Tuesday, 27 October 2009
An incredible story about paper ...from Space!
However, incredibly, paper survived ... and not just any paper, but parts of the personal journal of one of the astronauts, Ilan Ramon from Israel. Amazingly these charred remains floated down to earth and were found two months later in Texas swampland. The highly degraded and damp papers, written in Hebrew, were given to his widow Rona Ramon. She recognised that they were a personal account rather than technical references and they were passed on to the Israel Museum in Jerusalem and Forensic science department of the Israel police for preservation and restoration.
Remarkably and in some cases character by character, sections of this remarkable diary have been reconstructed, the process having taken months and months of dedicated work.
To celebrate this miracle, a limited edition of "facsimile" diaries has been produced for the Ramon family in a boxed set which contains a replica notebook incorporating the found and restored sections of the journal and a booklet describing the reconstruction of the Space Diary.
It has been designed and produced by Ornan Rotem and Num Stibbe from Sylph Editions here in the UK. It is not published as a commercial project but as a labour of love as they are friends of the Ramon family.
It is not available for sale as this was very much a private project for the Ramon family but it is a privilege to be able to tell the story and show you the pictures.
It was an amazing job to have been involved with, the story being so fascinating but also incredibly sad as sections of this highly personal journal describe his private feelings about being in Space and how much he is looking forward to being reunited with his family after landing back on Earth.
The project was digitally printed by Good News Press on an Indigo digital press and was printed on Neptune Unique SoftWhite. The facsimile notebook has been bound using nylon cords supplied by NASA which is how the original notebook was bound.
http://www.sylpheditions.com/
http://www.goodnewspress.co.uk/
Friday, 23 October 2009
New ranges 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 .
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...
Wednesday, 21 October 2009
Crispin Finn does it again!
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
Tuesday, 20 October 2009
PrintWeek Awards 2009
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!
Friday, 16 October 2009
The American School in London
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.philipsayerpartnership.com/
Wednesday, 14 October 2009
It's Nice That - Issue 2 - out NOW!
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!