Twinkle...Twinkle....Glitter.

'This print has been inspired by a favourite childhood nursery rhyme of ours. The rhyme itself is from a nineteenth-century English poem, 'The Star' by Jane Taylor, first published in 1806.

The beautiful starry background has printed by hand with black ink, before being printed with a fine layer of prismatic glitter mixed with adhesive, covering the print to give a fantastically sparkly finish! Perfect for both big kids and little kids!

Please do look at the additional images to get a better idea of the twinkly surface of the print!'

• Screen printed by hand
• Covered with prismatic glitter by hand
• Super sparkly glitter finish!
• White 300gsm Somerset paper

(www.keepcalmgallery.com)

Just Add Water...

'Newsstand copies of the November issue of CR come in a revolutionary new bag that simply dissolves in hot water. No waste. No landfill.'

This is a great idea to encourage people to recycle plastic bags.

Exergian

This is a few of the posters I selected from the tv series by Exergian. This is a great example of simple graphic design that works. I've just picked out a few but there all great.

In some ways these relate to how I went about designing my book covers as I just used simple silhouetted images.

Book covers with spot varnish.

On the book above the name of the author and parts of the images are highlighted with a sliver spot varnish. I think this is an effective process used on book covers and is some thing I want to try out with my book designs.


The 'Cold Mountain' cover is a great example of a good book cover design. It uses simple shapes and layered imagery to create impact for the book. However within this design it is only parts of the image that have a clear spot varnish.

Paperchase 'Happy Birthday' range.

Paperchase Recycled gift wrap.

Its nice to see Paperchase doing a recycled range and its something that I want to possibly look in to with my range of cards and products too. This particular product is packaged with a roll of gift wrap and 5 gift tags.

Paperchase wrap and tags.

Paperchase birthday range.

Paperchase Gift bags.

Wood Block Posters

Posters designed by Anthony Burrill.

Paperchase Xmas Card.

This is a perfect example of what I want to achieve with my card designs. The processes used such as foiling and use of colour really gives this card a feel of quality. Its also printed using vegatable inks in and alcohol free printing process, which means that it is completely recyclable.
Also I want to aim my range of cards at the market of paperchase, so that my cards have that quality and is something you might want to keep. To either frame it because of the lovely print or for a sentimental reason.

James Kelman Cover Art.

Image from:http://pentagram.com/en/new/book-design/index.php?page=4

Angus Hyland, with assistant Masumi Briozzo, has designed four book covers for Polygon's re-issue of the novels and short stories of James Kelman, the controversial Booker Prize-winning author.

Impact Graphhics.

Some lovely examples of impact graphics for films. Both from dropular.

Oscar Wilson//Studio Oscar.

This is a really good example for me to look at as is using just the silhouettes for the the imagery, which is what I'm using for my book covers. Also something I've picked up on with a lot of book cover design is that on some the title of the book is highlighted using a spot varnish.Maybe this is something I could consider as a finish on my series of book jackets.

Clinton Cards.

Clinton's a la mode range:
The above card is very plain and simple to me but the use of colour works quite well.

However the card design below has just that little something extra. I'm liking the fact its printed on to a brown stock (as I'm looking in to the use of recycled stocks) the colours just jump out at you against the brown background. Also the way that the 'happy' text has been cut out to reveal a coloured background works really well too.

M&S Cards.

Nice bit of humour....this is something I could consider within my design?!?!

Introducing 3D to the cards gives quite a nice effect?!?Bold use of font and glitter.

These two cards are both laser cut and have that lovely delicate feel to them. The bottom one is very similar to the work of Rob Ryan!!!

Craig Ward.

Both from: http://www.design42day.com/2009/02/craig-ward/

Tutti Frutti

Inspired by the opening cry of Little Richard's rock & roll hit 'Tutti Frutti', this fantastic print was designed and printed at Hand & Eye Letterpress by Phil Abel, Nick Gill and Rosa De Carlo.

The letterpress poster was printed in 7 colours on smooth white paper on a FAG Control 525 proofing press at Hand & Eye's London studio.The ideal gift for lovers of music and typography!

• Letterpressed by hand
  
• Printed using 7 colours on smooth white paper

From:http://www.keepcalmgallery.com/prints/hetfn-tutti_frutti.htm

Letterpress cards.

All from: www.etsy.com/shop/afavorite?page=4

3D christmas cards.

Paperchase Birthday cards.

Paperchase christmas cards.

These are really lovely as the above designs are paper cut outs as an illustration, maybe I could use this technique within my designs and then I can use the new toy in the print room!!!

Boarders.

Now this is a faber and faber book, I found it quite easy to pick them out from the rest of the books on the shelf as each book has the logo in the same place on the spine/front cover and back. This is something I need to consider when adding the logo to my designs!!!



Penguin book:
This book cover is a real eye catcher on the shelf which is one of the reasons that I took a photo of it in the first place. Its the limited use of colour that works really well and creates a really effective piece of impact design.
Also another thing to point out is the use of a spot varnish used to highlight the title of the book and the rest of the book is matte. I'm thinking of maybe using this within my designs?!?!