Print is by London based PUSH - beautifully printed and finished, the UV varnish fits well - a really nice clean, well produced piece.
Tuesday, 12 March 2013
Treasures of the Royal Courts - V&A
This weekend, a new exhibition opened at the V&A celebrating 500 years of exchange between the British and Russian royal courts. Comprising more than 150 objects, from portraits, jewellery and luxury goods to processional armour and heraldry, this exhibition chronicles the close relationship between the English monarchy and the Russian Tsars. The exhibition runs from 9th March until 14th July.
This is the beautiful invitation for the private view held last Wednesday. Size is A5, portrait and is a single card (2pp) made by printing and then duplexing our Omnia 320gsm to make 640gsm - which is 900micron thick - a truly substantial invitation! The front of the invitation is printed CMYK with the incredible detail of the 'Leopoard Flagon' reproducing beautifully. The reverse is printed offset litho in gold (1 colour)
The other thing to mention about the front of the invite is that the image area (below) is over-printed with a gloss UV varnish. (...just worth pointing out that Omnia is one of the very few papers with an uncoated look and feel that you can successfully UV varnish on to with one pass and it looks excellent).
Thursday, 7 March 2013
Gok Wan for Tu
This book is 215x125mm, portrait. It is a casebound, hardcover book with 36pp text. The cover is simply the simplest, yet most stunning part of the job. It is produced using Flockage Colours, Bordeaux 100gsm and you can see just how good it looks from these pictures...
The cover is simply hot foil blocked in two colours, metallic gold and matt black. Although Flockage is an expensive material, on a short run, it certainly creates an effect which is very luxurious and can be cost effective. Although they say you shouldn't judge a book by it's cover, you certainly can with this one! (The 32pp text is on an uncoated but I don't know what paper it is)
http://www.sainsburys-live-well-for-less.co.uk/gok-for-tu/
http://www.gokwan.com/
www.inspiredthinkinggroup.com
www.applecolour.co.uk
Posted by Justin Hobson 07.03.2013
Tuesday, 5 March 2013
Susan Hiller Catalogue
This is another exceptional exhibition catalogue for the artist Susan Hiller which features text by Andreas Leventis and a foreward by Stella Santacatterinaan. Published by the Timothy Taylor Gallery.
It is a casebound (hardback) book which is 260 x 200mm, portrait format and is section sewn. It features endpapers and two different materials for the text
The casebound cover is printed on Neptune Unique FSC 135gsm, offset litho and is matt laminated, mounted onto the case, hot foil blocked in silver metallic foil and debossed. The unprinted, black endpapers are on our Notturno 170gsm.
Text is made up using 16pp of Neptune Unique 135gsm (uncoated) which is printed in the special PMS pink and black. The artwork themselves is reproduced on a 36pp text section printed on printers "house" coated silk 170gsm.
Design is by Matt Bucknall. Print and the excellent binding is by Chapter Press.
Posted by Justin Hobson 05.03.2013
Friday, 1 March 2013
Jobs from the past - Number 41
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. This is perfect timing as it's exactly ten years ago since the anti war protests.
Why Iraq? Why Now?
On 15th February 2003, the Stop the War Coalition (StWC) held a protest in London which is claimed to be the largest political demonstration in the city's history. The estimated attendance has been anywhere in between 750,000 and 2,000,000!The day before the protest, a full page advertisement appeared in The Guardian, which was organised (and maybe funded?) by the architect Richard Rogers. He approached Alan Kitching to design the advert, which you can see above. The ad is designed to work both as a 'make yourself banner' and also list the some of the prominent public figures who opposed the invasion of Iraq and who were lending support to the Stop the War Coalition.
I confess to neither have seen the original ad in the Guardian or in fact going on the demonstration but I did see it reported in DesignWeek the week afterwards ...which I still have!
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| Alan Kitching and the late Celia Stothard with the posters outside their home in Kennington |
http://www.stopwar.org.uk/index.php/did-millions-protesting-against-the-iraq-war-on-15-february-2003-achieve-anything
www.theguardian.co.uk
www.designweek.co.uk
Posted by Justin Hobson 01.03.2013
Thursday, 28 February 2013
Future of Print ...
Tim Milne runs a London based company called Artomatic that I've written about before on this blog, and he's been passionate about print for as long as I've known him. He has just produced this interesting little slideshare which might be worth showing to clients who don't quite get what print can do in this digital age! Have a look...
http://www.slideshare.net/Timmilne/future-of-print-in-a-digital-age-artomatic
Posted by Justin Hobson 28.02.2013
Tuesday, 26 February 2013
Whistles - Autumn/Winter
This is the Autumn/Winter 2012 lookbook for Whistles - (we've only just taken the pics which is why it's a bit late for this season!)
Since 2008, Whistles has been under the leadership of Jane Shepherdson, a former brand director at Topshop. Shepherdson has positioned Whistles as an intelligent choice - often described as ‘the thinking woman’s fashion brand' and this new lookbook is surely a reflection of this objective.
The size is 240x180mm Portrait, saddle stitched. It is printed on our Omnia and has a 4pp cover on 200gsm and a 20pp text on 120gsm. The weights are just right - Omnia is an extremely bulky sheet, so this is just perfect.
...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 keeping all the detail in the darker images. The other important thing to note is that unlike most uncoated products, you can successfully gloss UV varnish on this paper (with a single hit) and it works really well - as you can see...
Art Direction and design is by Simmonds Ltd. Superb print (and UV varnish - which really is in very good registration/fit) is by Push ...and thanks to Kate for sending me a copy.
Posted by Justin Hobson 26.02.2013
Friday, 22 February 2013
Donovan returns to Frost*
Just heard the news that Anthony Donovan has returned to Frost* as Creative Director at the Sydney studio.
He's spent the past two and a half years as creative director at Moon who are also based in Sydney's burgeoning creative district in Surry Hills. |
| Anthony Donovan and Vince Frost |
I also saw Ant when I popped in to visit Frost* in Sydney at the end of 2009.
http://justinsamazingworldatfennerpaper.blogspot.co.uk/2009/12/roving-report-frost-design-in-sydney.html
Ant ...welcome back to Frost* and best wishes for the future.
http://www.frostdesign.com.au/
www.sheppardrobson.com
www.pureprint.com
Posted by Justin Hobson 22.02.2013
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