Happily Ever After

Here's a lovely project produced by Happily Ever After. It's an exhibition catalogue for Aberystwyth Arts Centre.

As creative partner, Sara Carneholm, said in her e-mail "Well it looks rather sweet and the text pages are Neptune Soft White. Cover is a non-Fenner I'm afraid, Millstream Sky Blue. But its a nice combo! Thought I should share that with you." Well it is a lovely combination and the job looks lovely, so thank you Sara.

The pocket sized catalogue is to accompany Pretty Eyed, Pirate Smile an exhibition of six video works from Ellie Rees. The works, made over the past two years, explore the archetypes and broad narrative structures that opera and film rely on, particularly regarding gender and love, specifically those of women in romantic relationships.

Design is by Sara Carneholm and Leah Harrison-Bailey.

http://www.ellierees.co.uk/

http://www.happily-ever-after.co.uk/

Madomat looks after the trees...

This is a lovely idea sent to me by Madelyn Postman of Madomat.

For Christmas gifts, they gave trees to their clients. They wrapped the Woodland Trust's own dedication card with this "once upon a tree" cover sheet with an image silkscreened in aubergine on our Colorset (100% recycled) in Dark Grey 270gsm and all finished with an aubergine coloured ribbon. The trees in the image are actually from a wood in Buckinghamshire which Madomat sponsors!

www.madomat.com
www.woodlandtrust.org.uk

If you could collaborate exhibition ...take 2

I made it to the "if you could collaborate" exhition at the A Foundation Gallery in London E2 (see previous post 15th Jan). Here are some of my favourites out of the 34 exhibits:
[Above] Fred Butler and No Days Off: The launching of the 8 days a week campaign...
[Above] Oliver Jeffers & Aaaron Ruff: A machine to enable a 4D view of the world!
[Above] Sandy Suffield and Fiona Woodcock: Stitched, hand painted reactions to tabloid headlines.
[Above] Rob Ryan and Michael Marriot: "The rockin' Rob Ryan chair"

It's on until 24th January... so go!
www.ifyoucould.co.uk/
http://www.afoundation.org.uk/
www.itsnicethat.com/

Opera North - Invitation

I've just received a file copy of this lovely invitation for Opera North for an event which is "an installation of forty voices".
The job is A5 in size and is very simply (but well) printed on our Kapok 500gsm, which is a natural coloured unbleached brown board with excellent rigidity. It has been printed using black and silver (Pantone 877). It's an excellent example of a job where the material has really worked with the design in a very simple and effective way.

Design is by Joe Gilmore at Qubik Design in Leeds. Print is by Northend Creative Print Solutions in Sheffield.

www.howardassemblyroom.co.uk
www.qubik.com
www.northend.co.uk

Chase Calendar 2010

This is such a great calendar, so I'll let the pictures do the talking:

The size of the calendar is A2 (420x594mm). It is glued at the top edge and is drilled with seven holes for hanging and is "round cornered" as well. There is a page for each week and a total of 53 graphic/typographic designers have chosen their favourite typeface for a given letter and give a brief explanation for their choice - it's a great idea and really well executed.

I'm not going to list all 53 but they include people such as David Pearson, Alan Herron, Mike Dempsey, Jeremy Tankard, Phil Baines, Fernando Gutiérrez and the list goes on...! Below is the whole lot in one spread which Li Rui kindly sent me.

The calendar was printed on our Eco-Pure Recycled (100% Recycled) 100gsm which was a special making for this project. Printed and finished by DXG Media.

Design Director on the project is Ben Casey at The Chase in Manchester and the designer is Li Rui. http://www.thechase.co.uk/

The calendar was produced in collaboration with the following type companies:
http://www.atomictype.co.uk/
http://www.fontshop.co.uk/
http://www.type.co.uk/

If You Could Collaborate ... Private view

Wow, this has got to be the most successful Private view ever!

Yesterday evening, it was the "if you could collaborate" exhibition launch, held at the A Foundation Gallery in London E2.

The RSVP e-mail had suggested wrapping up warm and being patient as the response to invitations had been high and so it was....

I arrived at 6.30 and already the queue was about 30 deep and in another ten minutes there were at least a hundred...

Unfortunately due to the size of the gallery and the numbers, they were having to work a "one in, one out" system.

Sadly I had to get home so never actually made it into the exhibition but I spoke to a number of people on the way out and apparently it's really good, so I shall be going next week (it's on until 24th January).

It meant that I didn't get to see the catalogue which is printed on our Redeem 100% Recycled ...which according to Alex and Will is another Redeem triumph! - thanks very much for the lovely note. http://www.ifyoucould.co.uk/

http://www.ifyoucould.co.uk/collaborate

http://www.afoundation.org.uk/

http://www.itsnicethat.com/

What a lovely Christmas gift...

Holmes Wood always come up with a fantastic Christmas present. Last year it was a red shopping bag with "you only get out what you put in" printed on the side.

This year it is a lovely red apron with the witty line "This one went over my head" silkscreened on it ...and although I'm not renowned for my culinary abilities, it may well tempt me into the kitchen more often (maybe being a somelier is more my sort of thing...)

So here I am in the Fenner Paper kitchen complete with my Chefs hat (which isn't very tall, otherwise it would look ridiculous!)

Thank you to all at Holmes Wood, especially Lucy and Ali.

http://www.holmes-wood.com/