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
Antalis-McNaughton has been sending out promotional mailers with postcards featuring their creative papers range. Each mail-out features a decade starting with the 30′s with each card highlighting notable events and creative work from this era, the front graphic of the postcard complement the historic information from the back and showcase different printing processes on various of their fine papers [...]
Posted on: 27 March 2011, 18:25
Posted in: paper mill/merchant, print design, printing process/finishing, specialty paper Tags: Antalis, coloured paper, Curious Collection, mailer, McNaughton, paper merchant, Popset, print design, printing process/finishing, Rives 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
From September 2010, GFSmith is to be supplying a new collection of papers from Gmund, the Original Gmund. This is a cotton based paper (10, 50 or 100%) with a warm traditional feel to it, and will now be part of the high quality papers GFSmith distribute the UK. Gmund is a traditional paper maker [...]
Posted on: 14 September 2010, 12:26
Posted in: paper mill/merchant, specialty paper Tags: cotton paper, FSC, GFSmith, Gmund, Original Gmund, paper, paper merchant, paper mill 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
Haven’t been updating this blog for a little while now, but was working on its new edition and specially the new list of merchants and adding to it papers and mills. A unique place to find out what papers are out there and where they are from. Hopefully a great resource. This new site is [...]
Posted on: 15 July 2010, 23:47
Posted in: paper mill/merchant, specialty paper Tags: boxedpaper.com, paper, paper merchant, paper mill, print design 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
Flying back home for Christmas leaves you with a lot of spare time to wonder around duty free shops. My favourite section (food apart) would have to be the perfume aisle, it is a gold mine for design, paper and printing process/finishes inspiration. This sort of place and products (perfume packagings), will most definitely engage [...]
Posted on: 22 December 2009, 19:15
Posted in: design inspiration, print design, printing process/finishing, research/study, specialty paper, Uncategorized Tags: colour psychology, emotion, fragrance, hear, impragnation board, packaging, paper, print design, printing process/finishing, research/study, see, senses, smell, taste, touch 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