Jobs from the past - Number 164

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 and this one is from 2014

Jimmy Choo - Bridal 2014

This is a beautiful lookbook for the Jimmy Choo bridal range. Jimmy Choo is a now iconic luxury fashion brand defined by an empowered sense of glamour and a confident sense of style. The cut, design and exceptional Italian craftsmanship has created a global luxury brand being awarded 2008 'Designer Brand of the Year' from the British Fashion Council.



The size is 210x148mm portrait. The 16pp text is printed on our Omnia 120gsm with the 4pp cover on a 300gsm "house silk". The weights are just right - Omnia is a very bulky sheet, so this works perfectly at this , opening nicely with the pages turning well.

As always (...this is the plug for the paper!) the images look superb on the Omnia; the fleshtones and the reproduction of the jewels and metallic images with their darker areas and heavy ink coverage - keeping all the detail in those heavy areas of CMYK together with uncoated paper tactility which would be lost on any other paper.  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 in the below pic...

Another luxurious touch is the binding. It is 'singer sewn' in a white thread, which exudes quality whilst also being a practical binding solution.

Art direction and design is by the Jimmy Choo in house design team. Print and print production is by Gavin Martin. Printed offset litho in four colour process.

 

https://www.jimmychoo.com/en/bridal-boutique/

https://www.jimmychoo.com/

https://www.gavinmartin.co.uk/

Posted by Justin Hobson 03.07.2023

Thread Business Cards

...on our Colorset 100% Recycled board

Thread is a studio specialising in design for a wide variety of clients from the art and cultural sector. Thread is the design studio of Michael Windsor-Ungureanu ...and these are his very simple and effective business cards.

Front...

Size of the cards is 85x45mm, there are three different coloured cards, all produced on Colorset 270gsm - a mix of Ash, Lemon and Deep Orange, all printed offset litho in one special pantone (PMS 072U) blue. Michael very cleverly printed these business cards at the same time as his brochure ...very economical!

 

Reverse...

For those of you not familiar with Colorset, it is our range of coloured text and cover papers which is also 100% recycled and more competitively priced than some other well known brands of coloured paper! There are 36 colours including black and white.

Design is by Michael Windsor-Ungureanu. 

https://www.threaddesign.co.uk/

Posted by Justin Hobson 30.06.2023

Blogtastic!

Some rather amazing news... 

It turns out that this month my blog has been very popular and in June I've had nearly 95,000 page views!

I don't get too fussed about statistics, however it would be nice to have over 100,000. So please have a look at whatever pages you like, there's over ten years of blog posts here - 1727 posts in total! Many articles about beautifully printed jobs, different finishing, three hole sewing, singer sewing, hot foil blocking etc etc...

There's only 48 hours to go, so please spread the word!

Posted by Justin Hobson 28.06.2023

1st July Update

In spite of a massive effort, I just fell short of the 100K and I clocked up 99,116 page views last month. Thank you so much

Today is World Rainforest Day

As today is World Rainforest Day what better day to have a 'Throwback Thursday' and show you this amazing job for the Rainforest Action Network produced in 2007...

 At This Rate is a printed publication produced to highlight the scale of the destruction of the world's rainforests.

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Design is by Studio8, Matt Willey and Zoë Bather were designers on the project. The amazing photography is by Giles Revell.

Inside front cover spread

The size of the job is 220mm x160mm portrait and has an 8pp cover with a 24pp text.

The book forms a series of spreads which really show off the stunning photography of the skeletal leaves, which look so much like aerial views of cities and make the spreads very powerful. Below is "Every day we lose an area larger than all five boroughs of New York City"

As mentioned before, it is best described as an 8pp cover with a 24pp text, but the text is actually formed by a long concertina (with one join) and the 8pp cover, which has a 10mm capacity spine actually works as a "dustjacket" as you can see in the birdseye pic, below...

It was constructed like this for reasons of both economy and ecology! The whole job actually comes out of one B1 sheet of paper meaning that it was relatively economical from a printing point of view and it was also not wasteful which is in line with the clients aims and objectives.

On the reverse of the long concertina, which is hidden from view, is an image taken around the outside trunk of a tree from a tropical rainforest...

It is quite simply a stunning job both from the concept, design, photography, format, printing and finishing. It deservedly won 2008 DesignWeek award for Editorial Design.

The images were offset litho printed as a Tritone with a high density black ink. The repro and superb print is by Granite, who have since gone bust. The material choice is Neptune Unique FSC 200gsm which not only printed fantastically but was also the environmental choice by having Forestry Stewardship Council certification, which was more unusual for fine papers in those days.

https://www.worldrainforestday.org/

https://www.ran.org/

https://www.gilesrevell.com/

http://www.gilesrevell.com/projects/environment/

Posted by Justin Hobson 22.06.2023

CSM Show Signage

Many of you may have visited the Central St Martins graduate shows at Granary Square but how many of you noticed the brightly coloured wayfinding...?

The signage and the map is all printed on our Colorset 100% Recycled range. The signing is all printed on our Colorset Deep Orange and Indigo 270gsm and the Riso printed map is printed on Deep Orange 120gsm

Design is by Thomas Black, Fred Cochran, Benjamin Khan, Irene Liakhovenko, Dolores Swann and  Kim Trainor, all final year BA Graphic Communication Design students. Thanks to lecturer Martin McGrath for sending me the images.

Riso printing is in house at CSM and the large format printing is by Displayways.

https://www.arts.ac.uk/colleges/central-saint-martins

https://www.displayways.co.uk/

Posted by Justin Hobson 20.06.2023

Thank you cards

IST Printing are Hot Foil Blocking and Embossing specialists. Based in Glasgow, IST is run by Ian Stopford and he has a real passion for foiling and the finest print finishes. His work for clients based all over the country has appeared many times on this blog before.

Ian has printed these 'Thank You' cards to send out with completed orders...

The cards are A6, Landscape (105x148mm) and are printed on our Shiro Echo 100% Recycled in Raw Grey and Raw Sand 350gsm.

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The front of the card is hot foil blocked and embossed. On the reverse of the card, the details of the reorder number and the stock and foil type used...

You can see the detail of the superb embossing here...

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Below you can see the wonderful hot foil blocking, which is using Foilco Black 7067NAB, which is a smudge resist foil. 

Dies are made by Metallic Elephant.

My thanks to Ian for sending me file copies and I know he is working on other items which he says he will send me...

https://www.istprinting.com/

Posted by Justin Hobson 09.06.2023

World Environment Day 2023

#BeatPlasticPollution

Today is World Environment Day. This event is the United Nations day for encouraging worldwide awareness and action to protect our environment. Since it began in 1974, the event has grown to become a global platform for public outreach that is widely celebrated in over 100 countries. Above all, World Environment Day is the "people's day" for doing something to take care of the Earth. That "something" can be local, national or global. It can be a solo action or involve a crowd.

What better day for me to remind you of a material we launched to coincide with COP26.

PaperWise is an entirely new concept, a range of paper and board manufactured from agricultural waste - this is the stems and leaves left over the harvest and which is often left in the field or burnt. There are additional benefits: PaperWise is produced in factories in India and South America that make a big difference to local communities. Investments are made in education, infrastructure, and healthcare while the manufacturing process is geared toward safety, zero waste, and preserving local ecology.

Lifecycle analysis (LCA) conducted by the University of Amsterdam (IVAM) has concluded that the environmental impact is 47% lower than FSC-paper made from trees and 29% lower than recycled paper...

The natural shade, manufactured from 100% agri-waste is also completely unbleached and has lower Co2 emissions than virgin fibre or recycled papers.

The PaperWise range is held in stock by us at Fenner Paper in Tonbridge. European stocks are held in Rotterdam and include a wide range of packaging boards and lightweight papers with food approval, copier paper and even corrugated boards. 

You can read more about this new range HERE and about how this fits with the UN sustainable development goals...

The paper and boards are suitable for all print work and packaging, with a one side coated packaging board up to 465microns and the latest addition to the range is 130gsm...

PaperWise founder Peter van Rosmalen features on this 1 minute video here:

If you would like samples, please drop me an email justin@fennerpaper.co.uk or have a look at our website.

https://www.worldenvironmentday.global/

Posted by Justin Hobson 05.06.2023