Ernest Jones - Watch catalogue

B Dazzled - Print 'magazine style' promotion catalogue

Azendi - printed material

Leslie Davis - Layout

H.Samuel - printed material

The current leaflet designs for H.Samuel in store, and becoming a little out dated. The leaflets do need to contain some key information although could be displayed better. Reversed out text, over sized type, and bad colour combinations. that Gold and blue together? 

An exclusive range to H.Samuel, features better colours but the type is still too big. I know there could be accessibility issues to consider, but something slightly smaller would sit better on the page.

The bag, itself is quite nice, printed inside and out, cord for a handle, and a mix of spot colours on the logos. The problem here is the delivery of whatever is purchased, usually the jewellery would be just placed into the bag with the receipt, whereas other jewellers visited in Meadowhall took a few steps further to deliver the purchase to the customer. Ribbons, stickers, tissue paper etc to make the bag a little more desirable to have and give as a present.

H.Samuel did offer gift bags for purchases, but just as an after thought and not with any similarity to the designs/colour schemes in store. The Ernest Jones store (the sister, more expensive store for the company) had the same bags on sale for twice the price!

Talk about pissing on my bonfire.

Scrolling through GE the other day and found an entire tea branding/identity on the site. A little miffed but thankfully nothing i have done to say ive copied or whatever. Nice placement of the leave of the 't' for tea, similar to the .tea I'm considering but gladly not the same.

YUM.

Strictly not related although I do feel the food relevance is enough reason to post on my blog. Isn't beautifull! Found on graphic-exchange of a restaurant identity by a group called transformer studio. Originally the cup caught my eye because of the definite cues from Chuck Anderson + the relation to my VL type face from the first year made of light.

Spot varnishes

Few examples of what I could find in the flat of spot varnish finishes, my particular favourite is the green and blacks cookbook. The spot varnish has been applied clear and not highlighting a particular area, making it really subtle. Spot varnish is applied as a spot colour (as the name suggests) separately after the initial print process has been completed. Really nice effect that would be great to consider with my tea designs.

Colour + image combo.

have to admit, i'm not 100% where this is from, I know its a agency called Absolute Design, but I can't find the physical packaging on the site.. I actually found it on Chloe Galea's blog (thank you chloe) and thought it would be of some relevance.. colour coding as before, simple type and now a simple greyscale image for different themes, works really well.

Chloe's blog is here. Check it outtt

Print techniques/layouts.

Martino Jana Design

Joyn:Viscom Workshop

Perky Bros