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
Found this pretty interesting book a couple of months back while travelling in France. Titled Detail in Typography (Le Détail en Typography), this book deals with ‘everything’ micro-typography and working with the column of text, enhancing its readability and legibility, all in a very approachable and concise manner. This great edition – first published in [...]
Posted on: 25 August 2010, 0:16
Posted in: Books, Shopping, print design, research/study, typography Tags: book, Jost Hochuli, micro-typography, print design, Robert Bringhurst, typography 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
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 this mailer from advertising the launch of a new micro-site, editionsfromgfsmith.com. On this new website you will be able to buy (expansive) limited editions, high quality prints, from artists (Rankin, John Ross, Lee Funnell) that featured in GFSmith swatches, promotional books or marketing materials. If you have a [...]
Posted on: 18 April 2010, 22:40
Posted in: Shopping, paper mill/merchant, print design Tags: art prints, GFSmith, John Ross, Lee Funnell, mailer, paper, paper merchant, print design, Rankin, Shopping 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: 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
This is no fresh news but it has to be mentioned. You must have came across one of those Dorset cereals packing in your local store… if not go shopping now! They feature a beautiful design by bigfish, which actually won a dba award in 2007. The packages display vibrant colours, neat die cuts and [...]
Posted on: 6 February 2010, 17:52
Posted in: design inspiration, print design, printing process/finishing Tags: die cut, finishing, foil blocking, packaging, paper, print design, printing process/finishing Leave a comment