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
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
The other day through the post came a brilliant gift. The 2010 Everynow calendar by , a division of , all wrapped in a cool package with a clever locking system. This calendar features the Munken range of quality graphic uncoated paper (Lynx, Pure, Polar), all FSC+PEFC certified and produced at the Munkedal paper mill, [...]
Posted on: 18 April 2010, 22:28
Posted in: design inspiration, paper mill/merchant Tags: Artic Paper, calendar, diary, Everynow, FSC, Grow design, mailer, Munken, packaging, paper, paper merchant, paper mill, print design, printing process/finishing, techniques, texture Leave a comment
My local printer came across the other day handing me out a little flyer to promote a new printing process they installed at their factory. They call Enhance and it looks very similar to a UV varnish. This finishing process is an aqueous coating, in other words a water based varnish which can be applied [...]
Posted on: 13 December 2009, 16:58
Posted in: design inspiration, print design, printing process/finishing Tags: finishing, print design, printing process/finishing, techniques, varnish Leave a comment
Just came back from holiday in Rome, and apart from the many pizza, pasta, wine and ice cream; I managed to observe some nice hand crafted typography and lettering work on different materials and from (mostly) old and more recent eras. Loved the variety, in texture, face, techniques… from very carefully hand carved text in [...]
Posted on: 28 October 2009, 1:40
Posted in: design inspiration, typography Tags: ancient, hand crafted, lettering, material, Rome, techniques, texture, typography Leave a comment