New Work Magazine

Wendy Jones-Blackett

This is a comapany that i work for, they make hand-made cards using foil blocks and embosses for the lettering. im going to see if i can find out where they get the cards printed and see if i can go round and take a look.

Professional Foils

Offset print - Mission Design

Sustainable Design

This is an amazing book 'Print and Production Finished for Sustaibale Design' - Edward Denison
It looks thorugh design and how some designers are starting to use 100% recycled materials and soy-based inks and non-toxic toner.
this is something i am very interested in, i think design is going to have to become sustainable to be sucessful and even tho its now a more expensive way of producing designs, it is inevitable and i think people who refuse to believe this or refuse to be open to the idea are being a bit naieve.

Print Production - Print (slideshow)

These slides were kept very vague as just notes for me and i tried to expand on most of the terminology that i knew and on the proceses. however listedning to other peoples i realise that i need to expand my knowledge of most of the processes and try and fully understand them.

London Poster Project -V&A

This exhibition was the in the first room we came to, i had no idea that it was on but it was the one i got most excited about.
This is a collection of 20 London Designers who were asked to design a poster on their view of London, the only restrictions they had been given was they could only use black and red. It was amazing to see what they had produced with just the two colours and white stock and really inspired me for my own work back at uni when we were looking at Print Production and out postcard brief.

1 Colour Prints

One colour prints are also called Monotone, this is when one colour is used wheather its one block colour or tints or halftones or this colour.


This dose look like that they have used both black and purple but the darker areas are just a darker tint of the purple and so have been able to creat a photographic image useing one colour, very clever and cheap.

Even Macdonalds are doing it! the lighter colour of the top of the bags could be lighter tins to the darker strip at the bottom of the bag, and as for the 'M' that is a clever use of stock to give another colour.

using one colour is a much cheaper way of printing a design but this dosnt look cheaply done at all, its using one white colout on top of a grey stock. this is most licky screen printed as most mechanical printers dont print white.

This is mono-print, its using the ink to fill the negative space of the image, and as this is a handmade technique its very hard to get a complete replica so each print is different and more unique which gives it a little character.

Printing on top of a dark stock can leave you with a very dark unreadable print, but here it has worked, i think this is with the use of spot colour which lets you use jsut one ink and so avoid the inks layering up and being as dark as the stock

Embossed Print

These three prints are from cards that i picked up over the summer, they all have a very hand printed feel to them with no final finish to the image or paper but what makes them more profesional looking to me is the embossing technique.

You can really tell with this photograph but this image is so very slightly embossed around the type.

Thos lettering is embossed aswell but the print texhnique is much heavier that a normal print and so the type is a different quality than the paper, this, i think, is done with woodblock print.

You can see really clearly here that the cars are embossed aswell as printed onto, for me it makes the card more interesting, it makes me want to touch it at least. the reverse side of this card was gorgeous aswell, it had been debossed but no ink printed so was white on white image.