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
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
This is one of the most exciting texture I have felt so far. Mohair from , just has the most addictive texture a paper can have, its soft, silky, smooth, fluffy fabric like texture will wake up your senses. Named after the fabric of the same name, you will love the feel of this stock. [...]
Posted on: 17 April 2010, 15:28
Posted in: paper mill/merchant, paper profile Tags: fabric, FSC, german, Gmund, material, Mohair, paper, paper merchant, paper mill, senses, swatch, texture Leave a comment
Colorplan from is one of the most well know uncoated colour paper in the UK. It features an extensive collection of 56 colours, 8 weights and 25 embossings that will suite any application. Not sure why the new swatch is missing the colour reference, but this is anyway one of the largest available range of [...]
Posted on: 17 April 2010, 15:25
Posted in: paper mill/merchant, paper profile Tags: colorplan, coloured paper, FSC, GFSmith, paper, paper merchant, SEA design, swatch Leave a comment
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
I never realised Arjowiggins’ Conqueror was such a big brand in the speciality graphic paper industry, I have always know conqueror as this quality hand writing stationary collection. So I was pleasantly surprise when my paper representative came around wit loads of goodies from Arjowiggins, promoting the pretty large conqueror paper range. Part of this [...]
Posted on: 20 February 2010, 20:06
Posted in: paper mill/merchant, paper profile, print design Tags: arjowiggins, carbon neutral, conqueror, FSC, illustration, paper, paper merchant, print design 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: design inspiration, paper mill/merchant, paper profile, print design, Shopping Tags: Artic Paper, FSC, Munken, notebook, paper, paper merchant, paper mill, print design, shop Leave a comment
Zanders Spectral is one of the few paper brand offering a wide choice of coloured tracing/translucent paper. Manufactured in Germany at the Zanders Reflex Mill, Spectral offers 13 colours and 2 shades of white (snow & blizzard). Available colours: cream, light green, light blue, blue, pink, mauve, red, orange, golden yellow, yellow, poison green, dark [...]
Posted on: 24 January 2010, 0:00
Posted in: paper mill/merchant, paper profile, specialty paper Tags: coloured paper, FSC, paper, paper merchant, paper mill, texture, tracing paper, translucent paper, Zanders, Zanders Spectral, Zanders T2000 Leave a comment
I have always had a fascination for translucent/tracing papers, probably because I have always loved beautiful colours and light working together… I recently came across the family of paper Cromático, -ca.® by Thibierge & Comar, a French paper mill. They manufacture a collection of translucent papers in 15 shades and 8 weights with matching envelopes. [...]
Posted on: 18 October 2009, 19:00
Posted in: paper mill/merchant, paper profile, specialty paper Tags: coloured paper, Cromatico, French, FSC, Thibierge & Comar, tracing paper, translucent paper 2 Comments