The surge of inkjet technology into commercial print got me thinking about the role that paper was playing in inkjet. So I'll divert from my usual finishing perspective and explore paper's part in this drama.
This week PaperSpecsGallery.com showcases an oh so fun and interactive calendar with a very unique way of incorporating "sound" into a printed piece.
A young designer I spoke to the other day was very frank about the fact that she did not like digital printing because you could only print on white paper. Granted there are some print providers that prefer to print on white coated stock all day long (digital or offset, it does not matter to them). And these few give our whole industry a bad reputation.
This week, PaperSpecsGallery.com is featuring a Valentine's card with an added twist. As an aha-element and for the finishing touch, the designer added a little sugar on top! Literally.
Designers trying to communicate with printers are like cats trying to talk to dogs. They both communicate in different languages and with different perspectives. Talk to us creative folks in our own language. Learn how to speak “design” and, in turn, we will be happy to learn a few terms of print, and put our creative trust into your capable hands.
This week's featured piece is an invitation designed for Advantage's exclusive corporate event. The invite keeps the clients corporate identity and branding in mind. The end result was a stepped accordion fold invitation, where attendees could view one page at a time like a book or extend it out to view it all in one glance.
The love for design and typography is clearly evident in this destination wedding invitation, which also serves as a tourist guide with maps, a cut-out bib, and tourist destinations of the host city, Chattanooga, TN.
Printing firm Digital Color Concepts (DCC) in Mountainside, NJ, in collaboration with New York City creative agency OTTO NY, and a cast of photographers and street artists, celebrate the power of visual communication in a revealing tour of New York City after dark—or "the other New York" as they came to call it.
This piece, designed by Faust Associates in Riverside, IL, and printed by Rider Dickerson in Chicago, features an unusual hand-folded format—a seemingly simple 12x12" opens up to a flat 24x36" in a way that resembles the edges of an oyster shell.
What better motif for a destination wedding in Puerto Rico could there be than a boarding pass? That's what designer A Day in May of Traverse City, MI, had in mind when creating this clever, yet sophisticated save-the-date piece.
