Egypt Revealed

Here's a particularly lovely publication produced for the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford. The Ashmolean has the distinction of being Britain's first public museum and is home to the University of Oxford's collection of Art and Archeology. This piece of literature is to showcase the forthcoming Egyptian galleries.

It is a A4 portrait, saddle stitched, job with a 4pp cover and 20pp text. Although in many ways this is a conventional format (A4 portrait), the simply executed cover is a real feature of the piece. Printed on our Colorset Ash 270gsm in just single colour (monotone) black and hot foil blocked with a matt white foil. Simplicity itself but it really sets the tone of the publication. The text is printed CMYK on a standard coated 150gsm silk.

Design is by London based design company William Joseph and the creative director on the project is Stéphane Harrison.

http://www.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/

http://www.williamjoseph.co.uk/

Posted by Justin Hobson 30.03.2011

Amanda Wakeley SS11 - Invitation

This is the invitation for the Amanda Wakeley SS11 show at London Fashion Week. The invitation folds out showing thumbnails of the clothing combined with African inspired imagery.

The size is 570x410mm folding down to 95x210mm and is printed just one side on Offenbach Bible 60gsm.

Full size image below:

Yet another excellent example that demonstrates the versatlity of Offenbach Bible. A lightweight material that prints superbly well and if well folded can make an invitation a thing of quality and great interest and still fold down to fit in a DL envelope and go in the post for 25 pence!

Design is by Sticky Creation and lead designer on the project was Tom Roberts. Print is by Gavin Martin.

http://www.amandawakeley.com/
http://www.stickycreation.co.uk/
http://www.gavinmartin.co.uk/   

Posted by Justin Hobson 29.03.2011

Oxford Thinking

Here's yet another one of the pieces shortlisted  for the DesignWeek awards the other week. Designed by NB:Studio in collaboration with Michael Wolff, this piece of literature relaunched the University of Oxford's fundraising campaign report. In the Designweek awards brochure the job was described as "a fresh, modest and quirky editorial style captures the spirit of the university - with the report raising £250,000 in the first two weeks alone"

Size is A4 portrait (you don't often see that on this blog!), endorsement folded to A5. It is a 12pp self cover printed on Redeem 100% Recycled 70gsm which gives it a light newspapery feel, but as you can see from the images below, it has really worked well with the photography.  

The centre 4pp which deals with the money aspect of the publication has been printed with an overall solid "wash" of a Financial Times pink colour and features as more of a supplement.

Sadly it's didn't win the category it was shortlisted for (direct mail) but happily for NB, they won the award anyway for another job they did! (called: This Year 2010)  However it wasn't on our paper, so I'm not going to write about it! haha!

Design is by NB:Studio and Michael Wolff

Print is by Gavin Martin

http://www.nbstudio.co.uk/

http://www.gavinmartin.co.uk

Posted by Justin Hobson 24.03.2011

Japanese Earthquake Charity Poster sold out!

Some of you may have read my piece last week about the tradegy in Japan and the feeling of utter helplesness that we are all experiencing. I also mentioned that I had been approached by Daniel Freytag at Studio Berg in Edinburgh, to be involved with a poster project to raise funds for the Japanese Red Cross. Well I'm not only pleased to be able to show you the finished result but also to report that the edition of 100 has already sold out raising £4500! great stuff Daniel.

Here's the print in all it's glory:

Silkscreened in 2 colours on Matrisse 200gsm by MLG Marketing Solutions in Glasgow.

www.redcross.org.uk/JapanTsunami

http://www.bergstudio.co.uk/

http://www.editionsof100.com/
http://www.bergblog.co.uk/

Posted by Justin Hobson 20.03.2011

Adidas Women Techfit SS11

This is an interesting and different piece which uses unusual materials and format. This lookbook was the result of an interesting project where their new generation of TechFit (TM) garments were developed with female athletes but also teamed up with the Staatsballet in Berlin, who have been testing this apparel since 2009 and that formed the focus and subject for this new lookbook. 

In keeping with the lightweight nature of the actual garments, the material chosen for the 36pp text is our lightweight Offenbach Bible 60gsm. Interestingly the piece is a self cover but it has a 6pp insert printed in litho silver on black board, saddle stitched in the middle which protrudes 20mm at the top (with the title) - see right and below - and which holds a disc - interesting stuff, actually having the cover, effectively in the middle not on the outside!

Design is by Made Thought and photography by Ben Ingham.

Print was handled by Team Impression and they have made a lovely job of it, right down to the black wire on the saddle stitches - very nice.

...and thank you to Simon Bucktrout at Team for sending me a copy.

www.adidas.com/women

http://www.madethought.com/

http://www.team-impression.com/

Posted by Justin Hobson 18.03.2011

It's Nice That #5

It's Nice That has rung the changes with some changes in format and materials and is available to buy right now!

The fifth issue, appropriately named It's Nice That Issue #5 (!) has changed quite a bit with the introduction of a gloss coated section and white uncoated section (not supplied by us) together with the Redeem 100% Recycled 100gsm used on the previous editions. Sadly the cover is provided by that other paper company ( ...you know, the one based in Hull) with a Buckram emboss - but hey, we can't have it all at Fenner Paper!

This 128pp (advertising free) issue includes interviews with Erwin Wurm, Matt Pyke, Isabella Rozendaal, Wilford Barrington and Rob Ryan, as well as various features and work pieces.

It is now available to buy online for £10 and you still have the chance to sign up for a 12-month subscription, which means you also get an exclusive screen print by Letman. Print is by Push. (http://www.push-print.com/).

BUY NOW! http://www.itsnicethat.com/

So there you go, not entirely a Fenner Paper piece but there's still a nice flavour!

Posted by Justin Hobson 17.03.2011

Wrangler Bluebell SS11

This is the latest collection from Wrangler's premium men's line - Blue Bell. As you might expect from their top range, this piece of literature is produced to the very highest standard with superb art direction, photography and print reproduction.

This lookbook is A3 format size and has a 36pp text which is singer sewn along the spine with white thread. Now (unfortunately) we didn't supply the blue cover board - (it's that oh so predictable colour range from a well known paper merchant based in Hull ...guess who that is?!!!!) which is silkscreened in red and white. The 36pp text is printed on our Omnia 150gsm which gives it that dead matt, tactile feel but with great reproduction.

Art Direction, design and production is by Studio Thomson. The piece has a fantastic feel - solid flat areas of colour work amazingly well - it is difficult for me to say too much more about it - see the images below, they speak for the job...

...and here we go for a bit of a plug!  - As you can see from the above images above, there is lots of colour and images with CMYK dark areas - loads of ink going down and it looks great on the Omnia, reproducing bright vibrant colours as well and the dark mono images as well, whilst retaining detail in the dark areas (in my opinion- but I would say that wouldn't I?)

Below: a close up of the singer sewing on the cover.

The art direction is by Mark and Chris Thomson and the quality of the direction and photography (by Petrovsky & Ramone at Eric Elenblass Agency) is matched by the exceptional printing (and finishing) by Push.

http://www.wrangler-europe.com/
http://www.studiothomson.com/
http://www.push-print.com/

Posted by Justin Hobson 15.03.2011