This Manchester event is in conjunction with INC. All INC members will receive a free copy of the book on the evening. For further information about INC, visit the website here.

Manchester and London venue details
Manchester:
Thursday 2nd September, 6.30pm at The Hive, 47-51 Lever Street, Manchester M1 1FN. For more details about the venue, just click on the website link here.

London:
Thursday 9th September, 6.30pm at Hoxton Grill, 81 Great Eastern Street, London EC2A 3HU. For more details about the venue, just click on the website link here.

Designers talk about Process is Form at Manchester event
The Manchester event will feature a talk by Design Project, the designers of the book, on the thinking behind the project which analyses the relationship between the process and mechanics of print production and the practice of design and communication.

Practical and informative, but beautifully designed and printed, the book provides an excellent platform to show off Team’s printing capabilities and also demonstrates their keenness to get ‘stuck in’ to help designers realise their printed projects, no matter how complicated they may be. The extensive use of special colours (24 colours, plus different foils and finishes throughout) really gives a taste of the comprehensive print and finishing services Team can offer.

So if you want to find out more about how a highly complex book of this nature comes together, make sure you don’t miss this one-off opportunity to hear the designers talk specifically about the project.

Special discount offer for event attendees
This limited edition book will be available at a special discounted price of five pounds at the events and will be on general release from Team at a price of twenty pounds following the London launch. To reserve a copy Process is Form and your place at either of these special events please email stevef@team-impression.com to confirm your attendance.

What others are saying about Process is Form
‘…it blew me away. Both the design and the print is exquisite. You would expect nothing less I suppose from the combined efforts of Design Project and Team Impression.’ Eight:48.

With a Colorplan Coltskin embossed cover and Naturalis Smooth Recycled text pages, this provided the perfect canvas for Team to show off their foiling and printing craftsmanship. Spin’s Natasha Day explains why they chose Team for this job; ‘We had to design and print the book pretty quickly and with this in mind we thought we wouldn’t be able to have any special finishes. However, Team managed to turn the job around quickly and we were able to use a gold foil on the dust jacket and cover. We were very pleased with the final result and the images reproduced extremely well on the Naturalis.’

It’s a piece we’d recommend you pick up, close your eyes and quietly drift off on a wave off smoothness and texture (but not for too long, we wouldn’t want you to miss our excellent printing or Spin’s superb design).

The Brand Experience Company produced a ‘keepsake invitation piece’ for Bentley customers at an exclusive driving event at Abu Dhabi’s esteemed Yas Island.

Christie’s in-house design studio were also delighted with what Team brought to the party; ‘Team managed to do an exceptional job on the foiling, emphasising the high precision at the heart of the piece.’

Shown opposite are:

Bentley invite
Design: The Brand Experience Company
Printed on Curious Skin Black 270gsm with silver foil.

Christie’s invite
Design: Christie’s in-house
Printed on Stephen Smart White 350gsm (Duplexed to 700gsm) embossed with
clear foil and gilt-edged.

Luis Vuitton invite
Design: Michael Nash
Gold foil on Colorplan Baghdad Brown 700gsm, matching envelopes 135gsm.

Mamas & Papas invite
Design: S. Gayford
Colorplan Pristine White 270gsm duplexed to Colorplan Imperial Blue
270gsm with gun-metal and clear foils.

Calridge’s invite
Design: The English Group
Cover printed on Colorplan Pristine White Buckram Emboss with black
foil. Reverse digitaly printed on 150gsm Lumi Digital Silk, triplexed onto
500gsm board.

Manchester Business
Club invite
Design: Creative Lynx
Digital print on 300gsm Curious Digital Metallics Ice Gold.

Estimates piled up un-estimated, important sales call went unanswered. Chaos. Word on the street was that one of the Fedrigoni people had completed it in around twenty minutes. Sorry, but we’re just not having that. Who’ve they got working there? Albert Einstein? Our very own Fraser Talbot (a bright lad and no mistake) took the prize
with a splendid 35 mins, 45 secs. **STOP PRESS** NEW RECORD – GLEN PEARSON 34 mins, 14 secs. It’s worthwhile completing to see how London based illustrator, Sarah King, has used names of the Fedrigoni  range to make up a rather intriguing piece of psychedelia. Fittingly, Woodstock is one of the grades and this should put you in the mood for the festival season. Man.

www.sarahaking.com
www.fedrigoni.co.uk

Team will be launching their eagerly anticipated new book, Process is Form, at The Cross Keys in Leeds on Wednesday 14th July, in conjunction with Fedrigoni (who have kindly supplied paper for the project). Another collaboration with Design Project, Process is Form follows the highly acclaimed and now out of print, The Process of Printing, and marks the continued development of Team as the printer of choice amongst many designers in the UK.

The book, priced at twenty pounds, will be available at a special discount price of just five pounds on the launch night – Wednesday 14th July 2010, 6 – 9pm at The Cross Keys, Leeds. To reserve a book and your place at this special event just send us an email. Two further launch events in Manchester and London will be announced shortly.

Team have also just completed production on a new limited edition paper sampler for Fedrigoni to promote their extra white premium quality uncoated brand, Arcoprint. This new promotion (designed and created by Design Project) is being launched by Fedrigoni in Leeds in conjunction with the new Team book – another good reason to come along on Wednesday 14th July and pick up copies of both these highly unusual printed pieces. This new paper promotion incorporates a box containing a colour demonstration booklet and uses fluorescent printed imagery and embossing to show how the surface properties of this paper can give excellent reproduction possibilities. If you would like to attend the event or register your interest to ensure you receive one of these limited edition pieces, all you need to do is email Fedrigoni here.

Matt Beardsell of Music explains the thinking behind the book;

‘At Music we like a list, as you’ll know if you’ve visited our website recently. The idea for this book started life as a very short list of stuff we really like, compiled by people who work at Music. Before we knew it we had a list so long we could have written a whole book. So we did.

Although the book has ended up 760 pages longer than first planned, we’ve had a lot of fun pulling it together, finding out more about each other and realising how much we have in common (although debates over milk chocolate digestives vs dark chocolate digestives will rage on).

So, with very little (if any) editing the full list of Stuff We Really Like is now out there. The initial response to it has been great and we’re encouraging friends and colleagues to point out anything we’ve missed for inclusion in volume 2.’

Text printed on Munken Pure, endpapers on Stephen Innocent White. The run of 500 books was divided into three different paper over board and dust jacket options.

www.designbymusic.com

Following the museum’s attempt to preserve the art of letterpress printing, the film gives an intriguing glimpse of life in this small mid-western town and demonstrates how the museum’s role in preserving and promoting traditional craft techniques have had a significant impact on helping to shape the future of contemporary design.

Find out more information on the film here.

The film will be shown at Shillington College,
1 Portland Street, Manchester – May 14th  6.30pm. Tickets are strictly limited for this event and cost £10 (free to members of INC).

Book through the INC website.

To order Print Matters, our handy little booklet showing printed samples of each grade and a full explanation of how we take our environmental responsibilities seriously, email Steve Fisher.