ESPA at Corinthia

Here's a beautifully simple invite/promotional piece for the ESPA Life resort at the Corinthia in SW1. It's an 8pp "closed gatefold" format. Size is 150mm square.

Front and back cover are printed in solid black with reversed out type. Corinthia is hot foil blocked in metallic silver foil and the key device is printed in a gloss UV varnish. It is printed on our Omnia 320gsm (...just worth mentioning that Omnia is one of the very few papers with an uncoated look and feel that you can sucesfully UV varnish on to with one pass and it looks excellent). 

Inside spread printed in four colour process - excellent reproduction in both the dark areas and skin-tones.



Designed and produced by ESPA for the Corinthia.

Print is by London based printer, Leycol with Richard Davey handling the project. It's just worth pointing out that it has been well creased and finished - it is square, flat and no cracking on the folds or edges - a really nice clean, well produced piece.

www.espalifeatcorinthia.com

www.espa.com

www.leycol.com

Posted by Justin Hobson 16.08.2012

Transcending Reality

This is a beautiful catalogue produced for a major exhibition of the work of Tai Xiangzhou in New York , earlier in the year. These exceptional paintings are rendered in just black ink. Excellent reproduction was absolutely paramount.

The size is 230x305mm, portrait. It has an 4pp cover and a 22pp text, including three throw-outs. The material choice is perfect - it is Omnia Natural 200gsm cover and 150gsm text. The "neutral" white shade works well with the ink paintings which are reproduced out of four colour process (CMYK) plus a special green.  The material and the image work perfectly together with the subtle tactile nature of the Omnia and the shading of the paintings.

 There are three throw-outs, necessary to show the works in sequence:

The binding is two banks of three hole sewing (see below) - in a natural thread, suits the book and subject perfectly.



The project is designed and art directed by Ornan Rotem and Num Stibbe at Sylph Editions.

Print and finishing is by Principal Colour in Paddock Wood.

 

www.chineseporcelainco.com

http://www.sylpheditions.com/

http://www.principalcolour.co.uk/

Posted by Justin Hobson 14.08.2012

Coworth Park

Coworth Park is a 5 star country hotel which is part of the luxury British hotel group the Dorchester Collection. London based design consultancy &Smith were commissioned to create a full identity package for the hotel, its restaurants and spa, to include placemats, maps, match-books, quirky in-room collateral and everything else in between (...it nearly included the kitchen sink!)

In line with the hotel being as environmentally friendly as possible, they took the decision to print their literature on recycled materials.

The materials used in the main have been our Colorset 100% Recycled, Mango and our Avebury Recycled Wove (50% recycled plus cotton fibres) which has a gorgeous feel.

The following images demonstrate the wide variety of applications- a map for the grounds, a car key receipt, drinks coasters etc!

Map of the Coworth Park grounds

Place reservation cards - spot the different animals!

It would take far too long to list all the items and the different weights. Suffice to say that Colorset Mango comes in 120gsm and 270gsm and Avebury Recycled Wove comes in 105, 135, 170, 250 and 350gsm.

Creative Directors at &Smith are Rachel Smith and Dan Bernstein. Lead designer on the project was Anna Leaver. The complex and detailed print, foiling and finishing and stringing bits of elastic etc. is all expertly done by Kelsi Print.

http://www.coworthpark.com/
http://www.andsmithdesign.com/
www.kelsiprint.co.uk

Posted by Justin Hobson 08.08.2012

Brightening up the area!

Here's a fantastic non-paper related post!

In May I visited Victoria Walmsley and Owen Phillips who are both part of The Bread Collective: http://justinsamazingworldatfennerpaper.blogspot.co.uk/2012/06/everything-in-between.html

Anyway, they've just unveiled their new website and one of the projects they've just completed is these fantastic murals painted in Hackney Wick. Basically, Bread wanted to brighten up an unloved, bleak street called White Post Lane and managed to secure funding from the London Legacy Development Corporation to paint the murals. The murals  are based on the industrial past and heritage of the Hackney Wick area and took over 6  months of community engagement to become a reality.

The Bread Collective are: Owen Phillips, Victoria Walmsley, Jo Lee and Luke James

www.breadcollective.co.uk

It's also appeared on the Creative Review blog: 

http://www.creativereview.co.uk/cr-blog/2012/august/the-walls-have-ears-mural

Posted by Justin Hobson 07.08.2012

25 James Street

This is a very simple and beautifully finished publication produced by British Land for their residential development at 25 James Street in London. Size is 270x210mm, Landscape format. The book has a 4pp cover with a 12pp text and is singer sewn.

The cover and text pages are printed on our Marazion Ultra 300gsm and 150gsm with the natural, flat mattness which works fantastically reproducing both the colour images and the muted flat colours.

Design is by Egelnick and Webb. Creative Directors are Toby Egelnick and Malcolm Webb. Designer on the project was Gala Slater. There are some beautiful touches on this piece including the the cover which is hot foil blocked with a gloss black foil and the singer sewing. The excellent print, foiling and finishing is by Generation Press.

 

...and thanks to Kate and Paul at Generation Press for taking the time to send me a copy:

The project (which also came in a presentation box) was also reviewed in Creative Review:

http://www.egelnickandwebb.com/blog/2012/02/25-james-street/



 

www.britishland.com

www.egelnickandwebb.com
www.generationpress.co.uk

Posted by Justin Hobson 03.08.2012

Jobs from the past - Number 34

Regular followers of this blog will know that my first post of every month is a "job from the past" so that I can show some of the really good work from years gone by...

The Quentin Blake Gallery of Illustration - 2003

This is the introduction and sponsorship brochure for the Quentin Blake Gallery of Illustration - which has become the House of Illustration. The House of Illustration is the world’s first dedicated home for the art of illustration; from adverts to animation, picture books to political cartoons and scientific drawings to fashion design. The organisation puts on exhibitions, runs competitions, works with schools and organises events with some of the country’s leading illustrators. The main ambition is to create a permanent home to celebrate the past, present and future of illustration.

The size of the publication is 143x125mm, Landscape. It uses our Modigliani, Neve which has a "feltmark" texture similar to that of a watercolour paper which gives it exactly the right feel. Needless to say, the timeless illustrations are by Quentin Blake...

Of particular interest is the the way the job is bound. It has a 4pp cover (with a spine) on Modigliani, Neve 260gsm and a 24pp text on Modigliani, Neve 200gsm. The text pages are individual leaves bound with an elastic band (which is black and is made from "round" elastic) held in with a notch on the head and foot of the book. This enabled the brochure  to be easily updateable. 

Detail, showing rubber band and "notched" text and cover:

The project was designed by BOB Design. Creative Directors on the project were Alexis Burgess and Mireille Burkhardt. Lexi now runs his own studio in East London, Burgess Studio.

The job was printed by Reg Davis at Pica Press based in Tonbridge in Kent but he has since retired and the company no longer exists. The beautiful rubber bands were sourced from Switzerland as I recall!

http://www.houseofillustration.org.uk/

http://www.bobdesign.co.uk/

www.burgess-studio.co.uk

Posted by Justin Hobson 01.08.2012

White Cube Invitation

This is a beautifully simple invitation produced for the opening of the new White Cube Bermondsey space at the end of last year. This is the third space in London, located on Bermondsey Street in south London and opened to the public during the Frieze art fair in October. It is the largest of the gallery's three London sites, providing more than 5440 m2 (58,000 sq ft) of interior space on a site of 1.7 acres! The building dates from the 1970s and was primarily used as a warehouse before the current refurbishment. (designed by Casper Mueller Kneer Architects, based in London and Berlin). The building has been altered to include three principal exhibition spaces, an auditorium and a bookshop.

There were exhibitions in all three spaces at the opening of the new gallery: Structure   & Absence, Inside the White Cube and Cerith Wyn Evans.

The invitation uses an image from the Structure & Absence exhibition:

The following copy is courtesy of the White Cube website: 'Structure & Absence' was a group exhibition that featured the Chinese scholar’s rock as an organising device or motif. A selection of scholars’ rocks were installed in the galleries as unfamiliar objects, disrupting how we usually look at contemporary art. The rocks have a deep but ambiguous history in Chinese culture, acting as objects of both trade and contemplation. Although they are non-figurative objects, their suggestive forms also encourage the viewer to find likenesses of familiar things. Equally, the rocks demand close observation of their surface, structure and material. ‘Structure & Absence’ invited the viewer to bring this blend of imagination and observation to contemporary art. The exhibition was divided into three galleries, each featuring works with a particular visual quality. In the opening gallery, surfaces and surface textures dominated, and the work was characterised by organic forms and colours. The second room featured brighter, more saturated colours, forceful horizontal lines, with paintings and photographs by artists exploring geometric abstraction and the legacy of the Modernist grid. In the third gallery, shadows move in, structures break down and colours are either absent or muted: any dream of order becoming a potential ruin, weakened by entropy and erosion. The three galleries of ‘Structure & Absence’ thus formed a composition, with a rise, climax and fall, reminiscent of a typical dramatic or musical arrangement. ‘Structure & Absence’ featured work by Andreas Gursky, Wade Guyton, Eberhard Havekost, Damien Hirst, Gary Hume, Sergej Jensen, Jacob Kassay, Brice Marden, Agnes Martin, Gabriel Orozco, Eileen Quinlan, Sterling Ruby, Robert Ryman, Erin Shirreff, Hiroshi Sugimoto and Jeff Wall.

The invitation was printed on our Fenner Bright Silver, 300gsm which is a bright metallic silver board with a mirror like reflective finish. Hopefully you can make this out from the pic below:

The image is printed as a one colour halftone using fully oxiding ink (black) on the high gloss surface. Reverse is printed one colour. Print was handled by Danny Kirk at Push.

Design is by freelance graphic artist, Laurent Benner, who's based in London.

www.whitecube.com
http://formsofinquiry.com/contributors/laurent-benner

www.push-print.co.uk

Posted by Justin Hobson 30.07.2012