A fantastic book

I have been lucky enough to be given one file copy of a beautiful book which has been designed by the Studio of Fernando Gutiérrez.

The book is for a firm of architects called Wilmotte& Associés based in France (http://www.wilmotte.fr/)


It is a 150pp casebound book. The text is entirely printed on Offenbach Bible 60gsm and the text sections are all "French Folded".

It has flexible boards on the cover which allows it to move very freely in the hand and which compliments the choice of text paper perfectly.

It is a beautifully produced piece. It was printed by Push (http://www.push-print.com/)

It's nice that

http://www.itsnicethat.com/ is a blog set up by Will Hudson and Alex Bec and I'm sure will be familiar to many of you. This blog is particularly unusual because they created a physical incarnation - yes, it became a printed book - ON PAPER!

I just received an e-mail update from them and they have sold all the copies in less than a couple of months - so well done to them - hopefully this demonstrates that good quality print is not a dead medium and is still very much alive - can't wait until the next one!

The paper used is Colorset Ash 270gsm for the cover and the text is printed on Redeem 100% Recycled 100gsm. Print is by Push (http://www.push-print.com/)

Sewing on paper

I got a call from Sandy Suffield a couple of months ago. I used to work with Sandy many years ago when she worked on John Rushworth's team at Pentagram in the late 90's/early 00's and since then she's been at various places including Time Out and has spent the last four years in the US. Anyway she revealed that one of her hobbies is sewing on paper - check these out...

Now most people assume that if the word sewn is used in the context of paper, that you're referring to some binding method - well not in this case! Sandy actually stitches into the paper to create these amazing artworks. The pictures speak for themselves. I think they're incredible - and now for the paper plug - they're all on our recycled Colorset 120gsm!

http://fionawoodcock.com/

http://therowanartsproject.com.contentcurator.net/?location_id=196

Education Education Education!

I just received some copies of a really nice brochure from Paul Spencer at Found Design. The client is Shepheard Epstein Hunter and showcases their work for the education sector. Really lovely print job by Orchid Print on Omnia and finished beautifully. Saddle stitched and then glued into cover with freestanding spine - simple but very effective solution when well finished.

...and it's always lovely when an appreciative little note arrives with it as well! -thanks Paul

This is Paper Art

This is the most amazing thank you card (piece of paper) that I've ever been sent!

Eng Su, has just left NB:Studio to go freelance, sent me this most amazing piece. All the letters have been cut out by hand with a scalpel - and not just out of any old paper - Eng has used our Offenbach Bible 50gsm!

Interestingly this is a useful piece to dismiss one of the commonly held beliefs about the Offenbach Bible which is that because it is thin, it will tear easily. What people forget is that this is a GENUINE "Bible" paper (we supply it to Bible publishers) and it has three imperatives:

1. High opacity for it's weight

2. Archival quality (in excess of 100 years)

3. Excellent strength, so it can be used on a daily basis!

Needless to say this fabulous piece will be going in a frame on the wall in the office.

Thank you Eng and good luck in finding the freelance work!

http://www.engsu.co.uk/

Thrown Posters

I've just received a lovely set of 4 posters for a project called THROWN. This project was designed by Purpose. They wanted a high white material which would print these fantastic images using metallic inks. They look great in the window of TASCHEN which is where the exhibition took place. And now for the "paper plug" ...they are printed on Omnia 120gsm!