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
Posted in: design inspiration, print design, printing process/finishing, typography, Uncategorized Tags: book, finland, historical, illustration, layout, lettering, ornament, print design, printing process/finishing, typography 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
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
This Summer/Autumn depending where you live is screening “The Other Guys” (see trailer below), a movie by Adam McKay. One thing I like on top of a good movie, are good title sequences and this is no exception. As well as being nicely designed, the animated infographics ‘educates’ and complement the movie’s story line and [...]
Posted on: 1 September 2010, 1:47
Posted in: design inspiration Tags: film, infographic, motion graphic, movie, Picture Mill, sony pictures, The Other Guys, title sequence 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
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
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
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