Paper and print

Apart from my journalism, I don't do much work these days that ends up as print on paper. But I do enjoy the particular constraints of the medium, in particular the need to consider the physical qualities of the finished product — apologies if that sounds like nerd-speak, but hey it must be true because I've seen it written here.

A handful of projects for a (tiny) handful of clients:

Client: Nancy Sutcliffe Designs. Graphics and typefaces for the website were repeated on letterheads, business cards and the other office requisites to provide a corporate look and feel. Here's a business card. (We found the dandelion clock on the cover of a now-defunct magazine and processed it in different ways using several graphics packages.)

Two-fold mailer and giveaway – inexpensive to do, so we could afford four-colour print.

"Let's have a funky Christmas card this year". This is one of the designs that didn't get used, but I like it ...

An invitation card. Stonking four-colour stripes on one side (the CMYK colours were better than the web can reproduce) with more than a hint of Paul Smith; b/w text on the reverse.

Howarth Hancorn has reached the size and status where a glossy corporate brochure would be a useful branding tool. I designed a 16-pager, printed on heavyweight semi-gloss paper with cutouts on the cover that allow the company's house purple to show through — a very classy piece of work, and those budget-busting holes weren't my idea at all ... The problem with brochures is of course their timeliness, and in this case two of the staff profiled so prominently on an inside page had left within a month of the copies arriving in the office.

The King Street Irregular is an occasional newsletter, 16 pages saddle-stitched and printed four-colour throughout on heavyish paper. It's intended to promote Howarth Hancorn as a quality brand with a sense of humour. I designed it, including the editorial structure, and do the pre-press work; I also write or oversee a lot of the copy.