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Every January marks the time of year for New Year’s resolutions and for many of us the start of a new Kitten / Puppy / David Beckham / Girls aloud calendar.

However 25000 lucky Invesco clients will be replacing the run of the mill calendar with a beautifully printed and embossed calendar produced at Pureprint.

The description of the project from the client really explains everything we worked to achieve.

“With the Invesco Perpetual 2012 calendar, the idea was to create an
attractive offering that our clients would primarily find useful and
attractive to have on their desks, but one which also clearly reflected
something about Invesco Perpetual as an investment company. We looked to
achieve this through the use of quality materials and a real eye for
detail in its design and construction. A simple and elegant use of
typography and print provided space for our company’s visual icon (the
Himalayan mountain, Ama Dablam) to be beautifully embossed and remain the
hero.”

The calendar is 165mm x 120mm. The calendar pages are produced on Naturalis absolute white matt 250gsm from GF Smith. Each month has been printed in black and pantone 8400 and then each month is embossed with a different mountain design.

The images below show the extremely detailed embossing plates used for the project.

The tent card was produced using 350gsm colorplan from GF Smith, this material was selected due to its strength and rigidity, therefore it can be creased and folded to work as a stand for the other pages.

Once the tent card has been creased, the calendar pages are collated into order, then the pages are wiro bound with the tent card using silver wire. The calendar is then complete.

The project was handled by Lloyd Bromhead and Jonathan Darchez @ Pureprint.

For more information on any aspect of this project please call Pureprint on 01825 768811 or email lloydb@pureprint.com

We were recently involved in the production of a fascinating book for leading international property consultancy Knight Frank entitled “London 2016”.

Our client, YCN, beautifully put the piece together which intelligently considered what London’s commercial property market would look like in 5 years’ time by highlighting how much had changed in the preceding 5 years as follows:

“In 2006, no one owned an iphone, Lehman Brothers’ market capitalisation was $40 Billion and Bear Stearns’ was $20 Billion, Iceland had a triple A credit rating, Twitter signed up it’s 50th tweeter in July – think how different the world will be in five years time…”

It got us considering how much had changed here at Pureprint in that same time frame. For starters 5 years ago we didn’t have a single digital printing press, we now have 2 x Indigo 7500’s and projects with exceptionally high quality requirements and challenging designs such as this book are being printed on them.

The Knight Frank book is 185x245mm, portrait. It is printed on SHIRO Echo, White (50% FSC and 50% recycled) which is supplied by Fenner paper and has a “natural” off white shade and works well with the illustration and text. The book is made using two text weights 160gsm for the three throwout pages

and 100gsm for the main text made up of 45 “French Folded” sections.

The casebound book is covered in dark grey bookcloth and is hot foil blocked in silver.

We printed the job digitally and it’s a great testament to how fantastic this technology is now. Particularly on uncoated stocks we feel the results are arguably better than what would have been achieved through the litho process. Every one of the 300 copies was stamped and individually numbered by hand.

The project was handled by Simon Cooper and Keith Marley @ Pureprint.

For more information on any aspect of this project please call Pureprint on 01825 768811 or email simon.cooper@pureprint.com

Art Direction & Design: YCN, Infographics: Chris Clarke, Illustrations: Samuel Green, www.ycnonline.com

Material by fenner, contact Justin@fennerpaper.co.uk or follow his blog http://justinsamazingworldatfennerpaper.blogspot.com/