I was away on an “old” Finnish summer house a couple of weeks ago for Juhannus, during that time I came across some brilliant old books from the 1900′s and around that era or ealier. I love variety of typographic ornament found on those books, the attention to details and the perfect clean layouts. Examples below go through [...]
Posted on: 8 July 2011, 12:48
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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
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
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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
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I love printmaking, and I love metal type. We had Helvetica, Objectified, soon Urbanized, and now we will have Linotype The Film. Linotype: The Film is a feature-length documentary film centered around the Linotype typecasting machine invented by Ottmar Mergenthaler in 1886. Called the “Eighth Wonder of the World” by Thomas Edison, the Linotype revolutionized [...]
Posted on: 25 November 2010, 14:00
Posted in: print design, printing process/finishing, Uncategorized Tags: film, Linotype, print design, printing process/finishing, typography 1 Comment
Just came across the site of the London based printer and print specialit, Benwells. Passionate about printing perfection If you are passionate about print, materials and printing techniques, or just like pretty things, have a look at their site. You can also follow them through their blog, which I wish I had known about before, [...]
Posted on: 25 November 2010, 13:27
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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
Receive the other day the captivating INSPIRE Magazine (#35) from Iggesung Paperboard, paper merchant and mill, manufacturer of Invercote and Incada paperboards. The cover features a cool printing process, cold foil. It achieves similar result than hot foil, but has the advantage to be applied in-line (like ) on the offset press. This offers greater [...]
Posted on: 28 July 2010, 22:44
Posted in: design inspiration, paper mill/merchant, print design, printing process/finishing Tags: cold foil, hot foil, Inggesung, offset, paper merchant, print design, printing process/finishing, techniques Leave a comment
I am a big fan of printing processes and experimenting with them, I’ve done research on their associated psychological response and I believe each process should be chosen in response to the brief. With the same concept, Underware, the design collective author of fabulous typefaces, managed to ‘manufacture’ blood offset ink. For the sampler of [...]
Posted on: 12 June 2010, 20:36
Posted in: design inspiration, printing process/finishing, typography Tags: blood ink, print design, printing process/finishing, techniques, type foundry, Underware Leave a comment