Category: Printing
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On recycled paper and “green” printing
From her new book Designing for Print, Marina Poropat Joyce answers questions on the environmental footprint of recycled paper compared to virgin paper. It’s not necessarily better to choose the former. Is recycled paper more environmentally friendly? A few factors need to be weighed in order to gauge the environmental footprint of recycled versus virgin…
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Alan Kitching on his life in letterpress
Design Week spoke to letterpress legend Alan Kitching about his career in design, and how the industry has changed over the past three decades.
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How it’s made: producing a bus blind
Since 1978, Manchester-based McKenna Brothers have specialised in the supply of “destination blinds,” LED and dot matrix signs to the passenger transport industry. This short video explains how the team make bus blinds.
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Digital Print. A Bigger Spectrum.
A Bigger Spectrum is a book by Silas Amos that looks at how top brands are using digital print to increase sales.
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Printing Flaunt
Armin and Bryony of UnderConsideration have just released the second edition of Flaunt: Designing effective, compelling and memorable portfolios of creative work. It’s available in print and as a single licence PDF, and Armin took time to answer a few questions about the book’s printing and packaging.
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Banknotes for the visually impaired
Only the United States prints banknotes that are identical in size and colour in all their denominations.
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Recommended UK commercial printers
It takes time to find a reliable commercial printer, so here’s a head start — UK print companies vouched for by some of the UK’s top designers and studios. Helen Jones of The Partners recommends: Orchid Print, London — 020 8986 8969 Screaming Colour, London — 020 7549 3400 Katie Morgan of (the late, great)…
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Hatch Show Print
A fascinating eight-minute look at Hatch Show Print, a 130 year-old working letterpress shop (established 1879) in Nashville, Tennessee. Hatch Show Print, established in 1879, is a working letterpress print shop in Nashville, Tennessee. It uses its collection to educate and to create iconic designs that express and commemorate America’s evolving cultural identity. Hatch Show…
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Prepress tips for graphic designers
When you send files to a commercial printer there are a lot of things that can go wrong, costing time and money, so to help, art director Sigurdur Armannsson has prepared sixteen prepress tips that cover the major aspects for correction in your artwork. By checking each tip as you go your files will be…