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
Posted in: design inspiration, print design Tags: design competition, Mohawk Fine Papers, paper, paper merchant, print design 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
I have heard about it the first time in a FontShop newsletter I think, and now came across a site actually using it. Typekit lets you use designer typeface online on your website, so you don’t have to stick to the classics Georgia or Verdana and others anymore! It uses Javascript to substitute the fonts [...]
Posted on: 9 March 2010, 22:58
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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
Posted in: design inspiration, paper mill/merchant, paper profile, print design Tags: booklet, coloured paper, digital paper, FSC, paper, paper merchant, print design, printing process/finishing, texture Leave a comment
Today in the post came a magnificent notebook from Munken paper Sweden. Munken is a paper brand part of the Artic Paper group present in Europe. They have an online shop full of goodies such as notebooks, poster and brochures. These notebooks are just gorgeous, and for only 15€, everybody should get one. This is [...]
Posted on: 6 February 2010, 18:18
Posted in: Shopping, design inspiration, paper mill/merchant, paper profile, print design Tags: Artic Paper, FSC, Munken, notebook, paper, paper merchant, paper mill, print design, shop Leave a comment