New to The Oast House, a collection of over 100 editions of this beautifully illustrated beer almanac featuring over 60 of the world’s finest and most revered beers. Illustrated by the famed London illustrator and ceramic artist Emma Smith, it captures something of a wonderful journey for all of those avid beer-heads. Each illustration is accompanied with hand written tasting notes and essential information about origins, makers and awards. Made from recycled vintage book covers sourced from around the UK, each book cover features an olde English title – often to much amusement in the context of a beer house setting. Printed digitally using the latest Indigo Press, on the Cairn Eco Range from Paperback, each hand finished in Sheffield for export to Manchester. The covers feature hot foil embossing with a silk book marker so you’ll never forget your place even after a few deadly Duvels! Happy reading.

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Ingenious gift-cards designed and produced for award-winning restaurant Silversmiths! Made from the Cairn Eco Range of papers from paper coop Paperback, London. As ever we instructed our embosser to ensure the utmost care was taken to ensure these were produced as envisioned, and he didn’t fail. Featuring embossed branding to the front, and satin silver hot foil to the interior. The gift-card values can be tailored to suit any pocket by punching the value from the numbers listed using a Boston made stainless steel hand punch. Raw, industrial but with an edge of uber-cool, enjoy your meal and see you again soon.

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Developing the profile of a leading figure in any business is something that is rarely undertaken. To mark the development of the Living Ventures blog we approached leading illustrator Nick Hardcastle – who regularly contributes artwork to top fashion and style magazines Esquire, and broadsheets including The Times and The Independent. Here Hardcastle worked quickly, drawing on all his skills to capture a fond likeness of visionary entrepreneur Tim Bacon, MD of Living Ventures Restaurants. The result, a superbly executed pen and ink portrait that can be used across a range of media both on and off line, in editorial campaigns, personal stationary as well as featuring on ‘that wall’ in ‘that rather nice frame’. Nice work if you can get it!

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Just in – the Mio Amore brochures, featuring the illustrations of Norwegian illustrator Esra Roise.  Printed on uncoated stocks across the scheme, to pull back the glitz and glam of traditional make-up and treatment brands.

This one’s a bit more sophisticated with an edge of underground chic.  The logo on the front cover also features a deboss – a great way to add some to plain printed typeface.  These deluxe clutch compendiums reveal a fold out guide telling you everything you need to know about treatments and beauty remedies available from this luxury spa brand.

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We continue to work alongside Living Ventures Restaurants advising on brand and graphic direction across their collection of restaurants and bars.

The Grill on New York Street hosts a collection of menus that take the avid diner on a journey through the menu. Our main task on the suite of menus was create a consistent feel, and pulling in an edge of 1920 – 1930′s classic glamour back on the menu.

Printed on uncoated stock, with thick black inks to finish these fine documents. Business cards have been made from duplexing 2 textured boards from GF Smith card with text finished with black hot foil impressions. If that doesn’t get your appetite going …

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Soon to be released, the 1 Zero 4 brochure.  The cover to be supplied by GF Smith, and the supporting material inside to be printed on Fedrigoni’s new coated stock called Tatami, 160 gsm.  This will represent the main marketing material to accompany the sale of this premium eco-design house on Leeds Road, Harrogate.  This will of course be further supplemented with on-line material, posted through LaROCK’s website.

Photography courtesy of Jim Ellam.

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Hot damn! Few hot stamp foil cards arrive at The Chimney House for 93ft.  We thought the last cards we produced were good, but these are definitely one-up.  Foiled using bronze foil onto crisp GF Smith card these bad boys say all the right things!  The next challenge is to beat these …

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How do you show to your clients that you really care about quality, presentation and about the environment, while at the same time giving them something personal and useful?  What a list of criteria!

We set about specifying some high end notebooks using nothing other than locally made GF Smith papers and cards.  The inside pages all on recycled paper.  The elastic used is made locally in Nottingham to reduce transport carbon footprint.  All waste paper from production is reused or recycled.  The metal foiling blocks used to foil the outer covers are sent back to block maker for recycling if not to be used again.  And finally this notebook is fully recyclable when finished with.  That should make for some happy note making.

Oh and in terms of who successful this direct marketing campaign was, LaROCK attracted the attention of numerous prospective clients – so all in all, everyone’s a winner!

See LaROCK project overview for more information.

Recognising Nonnas as a premier independent brand, we approached Nonnas about delivering their own products in their existing Cucina’s and delicatessens.  The brief, to create vibrant, authentic and Italian inspired artwork for a range of fine Italian food products ranging from biscuits, pastas, sauces, pan forte, olive oils and rice.  In addition to creating all the artwork, 93ft handled some of the production with the help of luxury bespoke paper merchants GF Smith.  The result a highly popular and regarded range of foods that enable Nonnas to access new markets, attract more customers and diversify their offering on-line and in store.

Photography courtesy of James Brown

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Photography courtesy of James Brown, Interior Photography courtesy of Jim Ellam

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Our theory is that if everything you do looks attractive and appealing then it will generally create interest and importantly in this day and age, followers.  Simple 2 sided flyers to promote The Chimney House pre-launch to the general public.  We started to use some of the brand elements to help build a flavour of the brand, these include the logo, Meeting Room stamp and written content along with a rather tasty palette of Pantone colours.  Cost effective to produce, but highly effective.  Would you like a flyer?  Yes please!

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The development of a new hotel brand showing how to do it all with a twist of old school meets boutique.

The Leopold Hotel is Sheffield’s first boutique hotel. Housed in the former boys school the beautiful Yorkshire sandstone building over looking fountains and trees in Leopold Square.

Projects to date include advertising, promotional postcards, occasion cards and full corporate brochure. A full press pack was created to wow the national press and to introduce the hotel’s boutique concept to the travel press.

See The Leopold Hotel project overview for more information.