Antalis-McNaughton has been sending out promotional mailers with postcards featuring their creative papers range. Each mail-out features a decade starting with the 30′s with each card highlighting notable events and creative work from this era, the front graphic of the postcard complement the historic information from the back and showcase different printing processes on various of their fine papers [...]
Posted on: 27 March 2011, 18:25
Posted in: paper mill/merchant, print design, printing process/finishing, specialty paper Tags: Antalis, coloured paper, Curious Collection, mailer, McNaughton, paper merchant, Popset, print design, printing process/finishing, Rives Leave a comment
A few years back (2009!) GF Smith was sending out sample greeting cards to promote some of their paper. This one here was actually screen printed with glitter ink on 330gsm Plike. The inside was a text about seaside holiday. The unconventional texture of Plike combined with the glitter ink was striking.
Posted on: 27 March 2011, 17:39
Posted in: design inspiration, paper mill/merchant, printing process/finishing, Uncategorized Tags: coloured paper, GFSmith, glitter ink, greeting card, paper merchant, Plike, printing process/finishing, texture Leave a comment
M-real Zanders is just launching its “World’s Foremost Paper Cultures” campaign, linking cultures with their papermaking history and traditions. This is a new innovative and ‘educational’ initiative to make their range of speciality graphic papers (re-) discovered by the design, print and paper community. The complete series will feature ‘all’ Zanders graphic papers with different [...]
Posted on: 14 September 2010, 23:46
Posted in: design inspiration, paper mill/merchant, paper profile, specialty paper Tags: coloured paper, culture, HKS colour, M-real, mailer, Pantone, paper, paper merchant, print design, printing process/finishing, tracing paper, translucent paper, Zanders, Zanders T2000, Zanders Zeta Leave a comment
Colorplan from is one of the most well know uncoated colour paper in the UK. It features an extensive collection of 56 colours, 8 weights and 25 embossings that will suite any application. Not sure why the new swatch is missing the colour reference, but this is anyway one of the largest available range of [...]
Posted on: 17 April 2010, 15:25
Posted in: paper mill/merchant, paper profile Tags: colorplan, coloured paper, FSC, GFSmith, paper, paper merchant, SEA design, swatch Leave a comment
Having been dropped by paper stocks promotions (since it seems they are taking over the distributor ), I have been handed a promotional booklet for their digital paper range. A cool little book, designed by Blast, printed by the renowned Team and featuring artwork by John Ross, Eboy, Frost, Jeremy Tankard and other. A perfect [...]
Posted on: 20 February 2010, 20:32
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Zanders Spectral is one of the few paper brand offering a wide choice of coloured tracing/translucent paper. Manufactured in Germany at the Zanders Reflex Mill, Spectral offers 13 colours and 2 shades of white (snow & blizzard). Available colours: cream, light green, light blue, blue, pink, mauve, red, orange, golden yellow, yellow, poison green, dark [...]
Posted on: 24 January 2010, 0:00
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I have always had a fascination for translucent/tracing papers, probably because I have always loved beautiful colours and light working together… I recently came across the family of paper Cromático, -ca.® by Thibierge & Comar, a French paper mill. They manufacture a collection of translucent papers in 15 shades and 8 weights with matching envelopes. [...]
Posted on: 18 October 2009, 19:00
Posted in: paper mill/merchant, paper profile, specialty paper Tags: coloured paper, Cromatico, French, FSC, Thibierge & Comar, tracing paper, translucent paper 2 Comments