Namma by Kricket

Kricket is a modern Indian restaurant group with three restaurants in Soho, Brixton and the former Television Centre (White City). Founded by partners Rik Campbell and chef Will Bowlby, Kricket has recently expanded into the takeaway market, launching a new brand Namma by Kricket.

The partners were inspired by their travels across India and while they were in Mumbai they hired a couple of Royal Enfield Bullet motorcycles. It was this trip that inspired both the takeaway brand and their dishes with a twist.

The Namma by Kricket branding is by &Smith and they created a suite of literature including this simple A6 postcard, showing a pair of Royal Enfield Bullets...

Designer on the project is Cécile Dumetier. The project is printed by Gavin Martin Colournet and is produced on their HP Indigo press, printed on our Shiro Echo, White 300gsm, which is an off white 100% recycled board, just perfect for the look and feel of this card.

https://www.namma.co.uk/
https://kricket.co.uk/
http://www.gavinmartincolournet.co.uk/

Posted by Justin Hobson 15.10.2018

The Photography Movement

The Photography Movement was launched in 2017 by best friends Scott Shillum and Steve Wallington after they had both lost close family and friends to suicide. It is a not for profit organisation, fostering a community spirit where individuals of all ages can discuss mental wellbeing through the medium of photography.

The Photography Movement in partnership with Canon, is curating a series of exhibitions at the Exposure Gallery from the 4th October - 13th December. The series will promote the benefits of using photography to support mental wellbeing, as well as raise awareness and funds for charity partners.

Yesterday evening, I was invited to the private view, which was an exhibiting the results of a series of workshops run at the London Academy of Excellence (LAE) in Tottenham.

Steve Wallington, one of the founders, pictured below...

https://www.thephotographymovement.com/

Posted by Justin Hobson 11.10.2018

Warner Edwards Garden

This garden at the Chelsea Flower show is inspired by Falls Farm, Northamptonshire, where every bottle of Warner Edwards Gin is distilled. The farm is situated on the remains of medieval terraced gardens, now a beautiful stepped grass landscape, which is represented discretely in the Warner Edwards Garden’s topography. Bee-friendly plants reflect the farm’s apiary, and thyme and lemon balm, which are highly aromatic, can be used in garnishing gin and tonic.

 

This booklet explains all about the garden, the designers, the layout and the plants which are used. It is printed offset litho in CMYK throughout with hot foil blocking on the cover.

The 4pp cover is printed on Flora Tabacco 240gsm and the 12pp text is on Flora Noce 130gsm. As you can see from the image below, the Noce is a slightly lighter shade than the Tabacco used for the cover.

The size of the booklet is 148x105mm, portrait and is singer sewn with green thread.

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Above shows the centre spread with the singer sewing in the spine and below you can see the outside spine. A superb piece of sewing...

Flora, is a part recycled text and cover paper with a deliberately recycled look and feel with specks and inclusions, so it looks deliberately flecky and specky. Flora is produced with 30% post consumer de-inked waste, together with 60% of virgin FSC pulp 10% cotton fibres, which gives the paper a wonderful tactile feel. See the image below to see the detail...

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Design is by London based agency Hue & Cry. Designer on the project is Kate McPartland. Print is by Leycol.

https://www.warneredwards.com/
http://www.huecryagency.com/

http://www.leycol.com/

Posted by Justin Hobson 08.10.2018

Jobs from the past - Number 108

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...

Association Gallery Leaflets June/Sept 1999

The Association of Fashion & Advertising Photographers (AFAP, although it later became AFAEP when editorial photographers were embraced) was originally founded in 1968, changing its name to The Association of Photographers in 1993.

 

During the late 1990's the AOP had their gallery and exhibition space at 81 Leonard Street, EC2 and the gallery manager was Alex Steele-Mortimer. Being a self funded 'trade body', resources were extremely limited, although the subject, brief and raw material was fantastically creative.  Alex commissioned Frost Design for the promotional leaflets for quite a long period. They stick in my mind as being incredibly simple, yet because of their powerful use of cropped, interesting images, single colour print and quality paper they had a consistency and quality that stands high today.

The finished size is 210x95mm (roughly a DL format) and is 12pp, folding out to a flat size of 210x570mm.

The format of this leaflet works particularly well as the text concertinas into the folded spine. This works particularly well for this type of leaflet as because it effectively creates a spine and the foredge of text - some leaflets fall open in all directions! This is neat and tight and as a result feels less like a leaflet and more like a piece of less throwaway literature.  Picture below shows the way the text folds into the spine....

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Text on the inside reads at 90degrees to the outer. Some people may disagree but I find this a very easy to read and inviting publication.

The paper used is Matrisse 140gsm and is printed just one colour Offset Litho. The crop of the images used on the covers was alwsy good with this series of publications and this is no exception. Photography by Craig Samuel.

Creative director was Vince Frost who now runs Frost in Australia.

Print was offset litho by The House Of Naylor, one of the last printers based in Clerkenwell, they are no longer in existence.

http://www.the-aop.org/
http://www.frostdesign.com.au/

Posted by Justin Hobson 01.10.2018

The Print Show 2018

Last week I visited the Print Show at the NEC in Birmingham. It was an interesting show and there were dozens of companies from ink manufacturers to software, finishing equipment, digital and press suppliers ...and even one or two paper companies too!

One particularly interesting section was "Traditional Print Masterclass" are, where I caught up with my friends from the St Bride Foundation - Mick Clayton below operating a handpress.

...and Nick Hand from the Letterpress Collective in Bristol together with his Printing Bike, which I've written about on this blog before. I'd never actually seen the bike and it really is a beast.

https://www.theprintshow.co.uk/

Posted by Justin Hobson 27.09.2018

Margaret Howell AW2018

Margaret Howell is a contemporary British clothing designer who has worked successfully in men’s and women’s clothing for over four decades. After graduating from a fine art degree at Goldsmiths’ College, London in 1969, Howell started making accessories. Her hand -made beads and knitted accessories came to the attention of Vogue and other fashion magazines, encouraging her to go onto designing clothes.

This is the promotional literature for the new Autumn Winter collection. It is a broadsheet format. Size is 140x198mm, folding out to 594x840mm and is printed on our new paper called SIXTIES.

It is concertina folded horizontally and vertically.

Above is the front view and below is the wonderfully 'ghost-like' reverse.

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Birds eye view showing the folding...

The whole publication is all printed offset litho on our new Sixties, 60gsm ...and it looks and feels absolutely gorgeous - it flops and folds in a delightful way when handling the publication as I hope these images demonstrate. SIXTIES is a new paper which has the same translucency as a tracing paper - but it feels like a normal paper! … you can see the translucency in the image below:

...and here too:

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The publication is printed offset litho in CMYK and the colour reproduction on Sixties is excellent, as you can see in the detail image below. Printing is by Push in London.

Creative direction and design is by Studio Small. Photography is by Chris Moor.

https://www.margarethowell.co.uk/

http://www.studiosmall.com/

http://www.push-print.co.uk/

Posted by Justin Hobson 24.09.2018

L'Amateur de Thés

L'Amateur de Thés is a Japanese restaurant and Tea specialists based in Pau, Southern France. The menus and stationery paper is produced on our Offenbach Bible 60gsm.

Here is the description about the project by the design studio Work in Process....

The Visual identity created for the gastronomic restaurant l'Amateur de Thés in Pau, on the occasion of its move to the Halles district. Rectilinear graphics and typography, sequence and rhythm, to represent the chef Yuri Nagaya’s rigour and precision. Simplicity, to reflect her humility and calm. A poetic and modern tone of voice to translate her experimental cuisine between Japanese technique and products from the southwest of France. Our intervention focused on the logo design, a deconstruction of the letter ‘a’ to gradually result in a symbol imitating a Japanese object or architectural element. From there we have worked on a series of symbols, typographic arrangements (using Px Grotesk by Nicolas Eigenheer), menus, communication documents, packaging, website lamateurdethes.fr, signage and pictograms, as well as some interior details.

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The literature is blind embossed whilst the logo and the little details are all foiled in black on Offenbach Bible 60gsm.

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Work in Process is the studio of Claire Colnot and Amish Shah, who work in between France and London.

The superb foiling and embossing has been produced by Pyrénées Dorure Découpe who are based in Morlaas in France.

https://lamateurdethes.jimdo.com/
http://pyrenees-dorure.com/
http://www.work-in-process.eu/

Posted by Justin Hobson 21.09.2018