The Design Conspiracy Blog

Making Things

As current graphic trends go, the art of craft and actually making things is certainly one of the better and hopefully longer lasting ones. The paper manufacturers GF Smith certainly think so too as their latest exhibition, Beauty In The Making, shows. It takes you behind the scenes of paper making, letterpress, font creation and even envelope making.

Held in one of the 22,000 sq ft basements below Victoria House in Bloomsbury, we went along and not only were we impressed but we learnt a few things too. We letterpressed some cards using 3 Adana 5x8s that had been set up and we also got collared by the ladies from Hull, who make the envelopes. It isn't new to us though as we have been getting our hands dirty since we started back in 2001 (as previous posts testify) from screen prints to our lovely vintage Golding Pearl No.3 Press.

If you want to see the exhibition you'll have to be quick, it finishes this Friday 27th April.

Letterpress Letterhead

We have been wanting to letterpress our new staionery since we moved into the new studio, finally as we needed a non digital file, we quickly set this (well, as quickly as you can set the bottom text in 6pt lead!).

It is printed on 140gsm GF Smith Pearl Plike on our 5x8 Adana, with brass rule from Stephenson Blake set in 10pt/6pt Gill sans. If you want to get technical...

Now we're not saying this is the definitive new stationery, but it certainly has a little something.

 

Sorry for the less that perfect pics, all done on the phone.