ISTD 2011 awards - hurry!

The ISTD awards deadline has been extended until Tuesday 31 May. You need to register by the end of this date and your work MUST arrive with Poke by 2 June.

The ISTD Awards celebrate the best in typography from around the world. Entries can come from any design discipline and should have used typography as an integral part of the design solution. The winning work will be featured on the ISTD website and in the ISTD 2011 Awards publication.

For further information visit: www.istd.org.uk/awards

Posted by Justin Hobson 26.05.2011

Whistles Invite AW2011

Here's an invitation with a real difference ...it's really thick!

This is the invitation to the launch of the Whistles Autumn/Winter 2011 collection at Claridges. It is produced using three of our materials! The face is hot foil blocked in a pigmented green foil on our Colorset, Crimson 270gsm. This has then been pasted onto our Vale Board which is 2000micron (2mm) thick and then is finished with Astralux Black 250gsm which has been pasted on the reverse.

...and the most beautiful touch of all is the 2½mm thick board has been sprayed in green to match the foil - really beautiful.

Below pic shows black reverse:

So there you have it. A three ply sandwich which is beatifully finished, has lots of impact, style and solidity!

Design is by Simmonds. Foiling and finishing is by Gavin Martin and it's been beatifully done.

http://www.whistles.co.uk/

http://www.simmondsltd.com/
http://www.gavinmartin.co.uk

Posted by Justin Hobson 24.05.2011

Tate

Here are two quite different jobs produced by the Tate.

Firstly there is Tate Film with a publication for a series of films titled "oustider Films on India". This is a 210x148mm (A5) portrait, saddle stitched piece. The 4pp cover is printed on Astralux 250gsm cover which is a one sided "cast coated" material, being high gloss on the outside and uncoated on the inside. This has been combined with an 8pp text on our (NEW) Colorset White 160gsm which works exceptionally well with the uncoated reverse of the Astralux.

The second piece is for a family event at the Tate called "Animate Tate. It is a simple but effective piece of literature, being printed in three colours. Finished size is A5 with a 90mm flap which folds upwards. Printed on Colorset White 270gsm.

Print production on both items was by Newgate Concise based in Bermondsey.

Designer on both projects was Michael Windsor-Ungureanu who has recently left The Tate for pastures new and we wish him best wishes in his new position - and thanks for sending me copies and the nice note...

http://www.tate.org.uk/

http://www.newgateconcise.com/

Re-posted by Justin Hobson 23.05.2011

Shaping New Futures -TNT

[This is a re-posted post from last week - not because I'm running short of material and doing repeats but e-blogger had a problem last week and they lost a few posts of which this was one! I'm hoping to get them all back soon! Thanks to Laura Kane who kindly had the copy stored on some posts on her browser - thanks Laura]

This is a very nice booklet produced for logistics company TNT and more specifically for their "mail" side of the business.

The size is 170x222mm, portrait. There is a 4pp cover printed 1 colour silkscreen on our Rib-Tone 2 sided, 340gsm (the one that looks like a brown ribbed packaging paper) which perfectly reflects the nature of their business - shifting letters and parcels around.

The 20pp text is printed on Shiro Tree Free, Cream 120gsm which is an off-white paper and works well with the hand-drawn lettering and illustrations - see below...

In the image below you can see the 3 hole sewn binding, using orange (TNT corporate colour) thread:

and the materials even received a nice mention in the back, in the notes section...

Design is by Addison (part of WPP group). The Design Director on the project is Martin Chiles. Designer and illustrator Björn Altmann (freelance) designed the project, creating the illustrations and a hand drawn face from Gill Sans, which is the TNT corporate typeface. The illustrations and lettering also used on the online version of the report:

http://group.tnt.com/annualreports/annualreport10/index.html

This piece was printed by TNT's nominated printers in the Netherlands who deals with their corporate publications.

www.tnt.com

http://www.addison.co.uk/

http://bjoernaltmann.com/

Re-posted by Justin Hobson 19.05.2011 

My World of Charms

This is a lovely little publication produced by Links of London for their popular range of charms and charm bracelets. Titled My World of Charms it is a small 'handbag' size of 110mm square. The book has a 4pp cover with a 60pp text and is perfect bound. There are also 2 reverse folded insert pages which are printed on a self adhesive paper, so you can create your own charms and then attach them to one of the illustrated bracelets.

Our very bright Colorset Magenta 270gsm is used for the cover to great effect and you certainly can't miss it! The cover is hot foil blocked with a matt white foil.

The text pages are printed on Marazion Ultra 115gsm with the natural, flat mattness which works both with the jewellery and the illustrated pages...

Lovely illustrations by Maiko Nagao:

Illustration, over a double page spread, divider page:

and here are the little "kiss-cut" self adhesive stickers...

Designer on the project (and the fab illustration) is Maiko Nagao working in-house at Links. Printing, including the foiling and self adhesive stickers is by Pureprint. All in all a really lovely little book.

www.linksoflondon.com

www.pureprint.com

www.maikonagao.com

Posted by Justin Hobson 17.05.2011

Blog posts have gone missing!

Unfortunately e-blogger has had a problem and about three or four of my posts from last week have disappeared! Unfortunately because it's an online system, I don't hold any back ups, so hopefully they'll be able to restore them shortly - Sorry!

Whistles S/S 2011

This is the latest Spring Summer lookbook for fashion retailer Whistles.

The size is 235x290mm Portrait, saddle stitched. It has a 4pp cover (which is deliberately lightweight) on our Colorset (100% Recycled) Light Blue 120gsm which is printed in just one colour litho (black) with a 28pp text on Marazion Ultra 90gsm, so the whole job has a deliberately 'floppy' feel.

As with the previous issue, there is lovely sense of light and space with this piece with some spreads having a completely blank page on left or right. It really allows the superb photography and the subject room to breathe. The brochure is printed in one colour (cover) and CMYK for the text.

Art Direction and design is by Simmonds Ltd. Photography is by Karim Sadli and Styling is by Francesca Burns.

Print is by Boss based in West London - incidentally their press, which is a Heidelberg CD 74-6LX is fitted with an inking/blanket/impression cylinder washup device - which (in theory) means "hickey" free printing ...impressive stuff! (and interesting in a sort of nerdy way!)

NOTE - Added 26.10.2011. Following my visit to Heidelberg UK, I've found out that this system is called a Vario Dampening System and here's how it works: "Vario operation reduces the formation of hickeys on the printing plate due to a differential speed from the dampening form roller to the plate. The reduced speed is attained by the separately driven distributor roller spinning around 12% slower" ...very clever stuff.  Thanks to Paul Chamberlain at Heidelberg (www.uk.heidelberg.com) and Fenton Smith at Boss for explaining it all to me.

http://www.whistles.co.uk/

http://www.simmondsltd.com/
http://www.bossprint.com

Posted by Justin Hobson 05.05.2010