Finally received my business card today for colymba. I am really happy with the result and Typoretum has done a great job with the letterpress printing. The Gmund Mohair stock did fantastic with the black on black letterpess with really sharp edges. The reverse on Gmund Color System 43 Color gives it a nice contrast. [...]
Posted on: 7 April 2011, 19:31
Posted in: print design, printing process/finishing, typography Tags: business card, Gmund, letterpress, Mohair, paper, print design, printing process/finishing, Typoretum Leave a comment
I have mentioned in the past this (in my opinion), Gmund Mohair. I am now producing some self promotional business cards for colymba. The cards will be letterpress black only on both sides, the paper will be a duplexed card with Gmund Mohair Schwarz matt and Gmund Color System 43 Colors. The only way to get the [...]
Posted on: 27 March 2011, 19:06
Posted in: design inspiration, paper mill/merchant, print design, printing process/finishing, specialty paper Tags: business card, colymba, duplexed, embossing, Gmund, letterpress, Mohair, paper, paper merchant, paper mill, print design, printing process/finishing, Savanna, techniques, texture, Typoretum 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
From September 2010, GFSmith is to be supplying a new collection of papers from Gmund, the Original Gmund. This is a cotton based paper (10, 50 or 100%) with a warm traditional feel to it, and will now be part of the high quality papers GFSmith distribute the UK. Gmund is a traditional paper maker [...]
Posted on: 14 September 2010, 12:26
Posted in: paper mill/merchant, specialty paper Tags: cotton paper, FSC, GFSmith, Gmund, Original Gmund, paper, paper merchant, paper mill Leave a comment
Cartiere del Garda, part of the Lecta group, has been promoting the paper industrial excellence and development with respect to the environment. As a celebration, a 3 years design/photography project entitled A Better Project saw the light. From 2007 to 2009, 3×10 photographers from around the world have been briefed to document “the experience of [...]
Posted on: 30 August 2010, 16:39
Posted in: Books, design inspiration, environment, paper mill/merchant, print design, specialty paper Tags: book, Cartiere del Garda, environment, Imille, paper, paper merchant, photography, print design Leave a comment
Back in July 2010, Gmund announced the new fine paper division, Lakepaper. They offer 8 paper products (Emotion, Extra Plus, hide, New Ecology, New Line, Reflex, Whisper and Business) with all relatively business and corporate communication oriented. Lakepaper define themselves as “dedicated to the creation and production of fine paper of outstanding quality”, we can [...]
Posted on: 23 August 2010, 19:38
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Howard Smith Paper has been promoting is range of environmental coated (silk,matt and gloss) and uncoated multi-purpose paper Greencoat, as well as introducing its Carbon Balanced paper campaign. “Now, Carbon Balanced Paper from Howard Smith nails the myth for good. “It is paper for which the production and distribution has been carbon balanced, or offset, [...]
Posted on: 11 August 2010, 23:40
Posted in: environment, paper mill/merchant, paper profile Tags: environmental paper, FSC, greencoat, Howard Smith Paper, paper, paper merchant, think4 Leave a comment
Haven’t been updating this blog for a little while now, but was working on its new edition and specially the new list of merchants and adding to it papers and mills. A unique place to find out what papers are out there and where they are from. Hopefully a great resource. This new site is [...]
Posted on: 15 July 2010, 23:47
Posted in: paper mill/merchant, specialty paper Tags: boxedpaper.com, paper, paper merchant, paper mill, print design Leave a comment
For a bit of paper business wisdom and inspiration, marketing applications, research and retrospective on paper as a media today, check out the free Life with Print booklet series by Sappi. Even if not right up to day (2005-2009) this definitely gives interesting insights. “Despite all predictions that the 21st century would see print swamped [...]
Posted on: 26 May 2010, 23:41
Posted in: design inspiration, paper mill/merchant, print design, research/study Tags: booklet, business, marketing, paper, paper merchant, print design, sappi Leave a comment
Mohawk Fine paper are holding another edition of their design competition, The Mohawk Show 11. If you have some great piece of print design printed on one of the many paper stock proposed by Mohawk, go ahead and submit it by May 11.
Posted on: 30 April 2010, 18:12
Posted in: design inspiration, print design Tags: design competition, Mohawk Fine Papers, paper, paper merchant, print design Leave a comment