Kenny Macalister Hall

Kenny Hall is a graphic designer working for a variety of clients, large and small, developing identities, brands, advertisements, corporate and promotional literature, packaging and websites.

We letterpress printed Kenny's business cards on the mouthwatering combination of Colorplan Mandarin to Vellum with a mandarin ink mix. Enticing design. slurp.

Joshua Middleditch

 Joshua Middleditch is a young graphic design student from Yorkshire who was nominated in the D&AD student awards, 2011.

For his personal business cards, Joshua chose Colorplan Triplex 810gsm, Bright White outers with Emerald Green in the middle.

 We letterpress printed two colours of ink, grey and green, to front and reverse of the card.

The high level of talent we see in today's student designers gives us cause to look forward to the future of print and design.

Mi Suny; Solar Power

We enjoy working with Mark Foster, always an interesting and innovative graphic designer. He contacted us to discuss the creation of a business card for Mi Suny, producers of solar powered mobile phone chargers.
Mark's final design replicated the product on one side and maintained the company details on the reverse.

The stock is Colorplan Triplex, made from 3 x 270gsm weight boards in a sandwich of Pristine White, Medina Green and Ebony.

The Ebony face has a blind deboss and a gloss black panel overlaid with silver foil and a white foil for the company name.

The Pristine White side is letterpress printed in black and green ink, with careful attention to registration!

Finally the cards were diecut with an oval hole punched at top right.

And here's the solar powered mobile charger itself!

The Printer's Devil of Glasgow Press

  

Long, long ago when Dan Snr. of Glasgow Press was serving his time as an apprentice Compositor, he attended a weekly class at Glasgow's printing college in Cowcaddens.
His college scarf with the Printer's Devil emblazoned thereon, is a family heirloom - one that we still fight over in the cold winter weather.

As children, we were a bit scared of him and remember various apprentices - printer's devils themselves - frightening us half to death with tales of devils hiding amongst paper cuttings or waiting to jump out on us from ink cupboards!
Nowadays, we're more freaked by him shifting type or moving paper from where we just put it down.

The Printer's Devil is part of our heritage. His contribution has kept our levels of quality printing, service and efficiency super keen, so we've decided to give him a well deserved place as our emblem.
He'll be loving this extra notoriety. Watch your back!

Debbie Smyth; Textile Artist

We letterpress printed these amazing cards designed by Dave Sedgwick for innovative Textile Artist, Debbie Smyth.

The stock is a Colorplan Triplex 1050gsm with ink mixed to match the turquoise middle layer. Holes were then punched through this weighty board, ker-pow!

 Love the design, love Debbie's work, check it out - it was a beauty to make!

Scottish Design Award: Stationery

This amazing design for Shannon Tofts Photography from Size Design received the Award for Stationery at the Scottish Design Awards this month  http://bit.ly/lifkKb

This was a technically challenging task. The stunning T/camera logo required a number of print runs to achieve depth and detail.
Firstly, a solid image of the camera with scant detail was printed with a light impression. The next plate, with additional camera detail, was applied with a heavier hit, printing black on black.
Finally, grey text was printed.

Letterheads are printed on crisp Colorplan 135gsm pristine white and the business cards are a very smart Colorplan Triplex 810gsm, pristine white to ebony to pristine white.

Turner & Moss Photography

A very fine business card for Fine Art and Landscape Photographers Turner & Moss
Designed by Amy Turner, the stock is Colorplan Duplex of ebony and pristine white.
White side is letterpress printed in black ink and a butterfly motif is foiled in glossy black to the ebony.
This beautiful card has all the elements - excellent design, quality stock and expert print - suitable for photographers of Turner & Moss's calibre.