Justin is a papermaker, as well!

I was going through some stuff last night and found this picture. It's a Polaroid (remember them?!) of me making paper by hand ...back in 1997!

For those unfamiliar with the process, I have dipped my frame which has a wire mesh over it, into the stock (pulp fibres in water) and am attemting to shake it to evenly spread the fibres. I recall this wasn't too successful as I ended up with a sheet of paper that was about 400gsm one end and about 60gsm the other - but you can't say I didn't give it a shot!

This was taken at the old Stora Papyrus Gryksbo mill in Sweden in their hand-made paper studio.

When is BOB! not BOB?

...Just read a very interesting Thought For The Week (TFTW) by Michael Johnson about company naming and the intellectual property of that name. It's well worth a look...
http://www.johnsonbanks.co.uk/thoughtfortheweek/index.php?thoughtid=494

Heart

Many of you will probably have already received this lovely set of promotional pieces from illustration agency HEART. They have produced this series of A4 concertina folded items to

promote illustrators such as Ben Kirchner, Barry Falls and Nick White, both in the UK and USA.

They are all printed on StarFine White 240gsm. Illustration is not always the easiest thing to get right, printing on uncoated materials, but if you've seen these, I think you'll agree, they are really well produced.

Printing and repro is by David Holyday (d.holyday@googlemail.com)

www.heartagency.com

Roksanda Ilincic for Whistles

This is a lovely mailing piece from fashion retailer Whistles.

It is A5 size and the pages are formed by a long perforated concertina which fold into the cover. Printed on Omnia 280gsm.

It is designed "in house" at Whistles by designer Jess Hilton and photography is by Ben Weller.

....and thank you for the flowery note from Jess and Kate which is hand illustrated!

www.whistles.co.uk

The Birds by Paul Farrell

Thank you to Paul for sending me this lovely new collection of cards, all using our Colorset recycled board.

They are not printed (in the traditional sense) but all foiled using coloured foils - this is very interesting as few jobs I see involve printing colour on colour (as I guess designers can be unsure of the outcome) let alone colour foil on colour material.

As part of the London Design Festival, Paul has an exhibition at The Old Sweetshop Gallery (in SW18) which runs until 27th September.

http://www.theoldsweetshop.org/paul_farrell_the_birds_and_the_trees.htm
http://www.paul-farrell.co.uk/

Hero - Issue1

Here is a new zine which is aimed at bringing fresh new international model talent to the fashion world - "THE FACES OF TOMORROW'S FASHION"

Designed, edited and published by James West & Fabien Kruszelnicki. The list of photographers is too long to list unfortunately but there are some really superb images in this job.

And here's for the boring bit ...it is 210x275mm, portrait, perfect bound with a 4pp cover and 98pp text. It is printed on our lovely uncoated StarFine White 270gsm and 115gsm.

Print is by Push.

Here are samples of just a few spreads:

http://www.hero-zine.com/

http://www.push-print.com/

Erika's Cards

I first met Erika when she was working at Pentagram in John Rushworth's team back in the mid nineties (I know that's quite a long time ago now!). Even though Erika returned to Sweden with her young family we have still stayed in touch and she now lives and works in Stockholm.

Below are pictures of a fantastic range of cut out letter cards which is an idea that she had years ago and she has finally produced them - and I think they're great (...they aren't even on our paper and I still think they're great!)

e.rennel.bjorkman@telia.com