Keaykolour gilded edge postcards

Title: Keaykolour gilded edge postcards
Agency: Hunt Studio
Client: K.W.Doggett Fine Paper
Stocks: Keaykolour Original
Printed by: Foiling – Avon Graphics (VIC), Gilded edges – Ort Bindery

Our customers often ask what techniques they might use to help them stand out from the rest, so we’re always looking out for something new to offer them. Recently, we discovered a business card with beautifully gilded edges, a technique that we just had to try for ourselves!

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We commissioned Thomas Williams from Hunt Studio to design an A5 gilded edged card on Keaykolour Antique, Navy Blue 250gsm. He came up with a mesmerising isometric pattern, wrapping around to the gilded edges and text typeset in Akkurat Mono, all in Kurz copper foil.

Originally the job was specified with a red foil, but we found that it wasn’t adhering well during testing. After experimenting with a few other similar colours, we found the copper foil adhered the best.

If you would like to use this process on your next job, our suggestion is to do some testing first, as each foil may react differently depending on the paper stock used. Also, ensure a sharp guillotine blade to avoid rough patches, or alternatively forme cut the job for greater accuracy.

Although this is a brilliant technique, there is a lot of manual labour involved, therefore we wouldn’t recommend using this process for large jobs. It’s perfect for boutique jobs and jobs with small runs, such as business cards.

To see one of these beautifully crafted cards, call our samples department or contact your KWD paper representative.

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Strength and Beauty is Knight

Title: Strength and Beauty
Agency: Three60 (VIC)
Client: K.W.Doggett Fine Paper
Stocks: Knight – Smooth / Knight – Textures / Knight – Vellum / Knight Smooth – Cream
Printed by: Bambra Press (VIC)

This was a truly special project for us, a collaboration of creativity, inspiration and fashion, where everyone involved was fully immersed in the process. The large format book ‘Strength and Beauty’, and three complementary A5 postcards, feature a stunning series of photographs that are a modern interpretation of medieval heroes and heroines. The book and cards showcase Knight, a unique collection of high quality uncoated papers.  With a delicate and even surface, Knight is finished to ensure beautiful printed results for communications that require elegance, strength and beauty.

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We had the privilege of working with some really talented people including (but not limited to!), Three60 who provided the design and creative direction, talented photographer Justin Cooper, Visual Thing & Mr Woolf in charge of post-production, and some of Australia’s top stylists and fashion houses namely Jolyon Mason, who provided the expert styling, and fashion labels like Romance was Born,Toni Maticevski, Skin and Threads, Zambesi, Diesel and Manning Cartell among others.

The book really is a tactile and visual experience, capturing the outstanding print quality, high resolution imagery and versatility of the range which boasts a comprehensive choice of weights and finishes and is even made from environmentally sustainable pulp. The images reveal how beautifully the Knight range prints 4 colour process, handles rich solids and sharp detail with ease, and how it adds distinct warmth and beauty to enhance skin tones.

Handy hint: Re the 4 colour process set-up, we used the ISO uncoated colour profile and 2 colour process made up of Process black and Warm Grey 6. We opened up the mid-tones to allow for gain and images were over sharpened to allow for ink swell on the press.

For your very own copy of the Knight book, please contact our samples department or call your specifications representative.

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A Curious Story

Title: A Curious Story
Agency: Reflex Group Paris, Photographer – Gregoire Alexandre
Client: K.W.Doggett Fine Paper
Stocks: Curious Metallics / Curious Metallics Iridescent / Curious Touch Soft Touch / Curious Translucents
Printed by: Norman McGrigor Printing

Tell me a story that I’ve never heard before.
Tell me about a young girl who lives in the stars, and about how she met with a chimera.
Tell me how she lived and breathed under the seas, how she played with fire, ice and wind.
Tell me how she slept at night, in a cradle of light.
Tell me how she transcended matter itself.

Tell me a…Curious Story.

This A4 landscape booklet features amazing images and print techniques from the Arjowiggins Curious Collection. It tells a story (www.curiousstory.com) as seen through the lens of photographer Gregoire Alexandre, and exhibits a range of possibilities through print, die-cutting and embellishments on the range.

Now available exclusively from K.W.Doggett Fine Paper, the Curious range includes a variety of colours and finishes, including 5 new metallic hues. To see the new range of Curious Metallics please contact your K.W.Doggett Fine Paper representative or your nearest samples department.

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Meet the Sovereigns

Title: Meet the Sovereigns Agency: Three60 Client: K.W.Doggett Fine Paper Stocks: Sovereign A2 – Gloss / Sovereign A2 – Silk / Sovereign Hi-Bulk Art Board / Sovereign Offset Printed by: Southern Colour A day in the life of a unique Aussie family… Jack is an early riser and he wastes no time getting stuck into the day’s work. The Queen’s day begins with a trip to the local butcher. The King’s daily ritual is grooming himself until it’s show time. He wakes up, has a shower and works on his tan for a few hours. The Queen returns, Jack cooks up a BBQ and the royal family sit down to lunch. Meet-the-Sovereigns_6 This humorous new promotion plays up the characters of the Sovereign family, with each member corresponding to one of our best loved papers: Sovereign Offset is shown as the Jack of all trades, no job is too big or too small, he gets the job done every time. Sovereign A2 is The King, the real performer. He’s been selling strong for 32 years and is well loved by printers and designers alike. And the Queen represents the heavy weight strength and durability of our Sovereign Hi-Bulk Art Board… guaranteed to outmuscle any competitor. The Sovereign Family represents our best brands for performance, price and reliability. To see the Sovereigns in action for yourself, simply contact our sample department for your copy of the book. Meet-the-Sovereigns_1 Meet-the-Sovereigns_2 Meet-the-Sovereigns_3 Meet-the-Sovereigns_4 Meet-the-Sovereigns_5

Rives sketchbook

Title: Rives Notebook
Agency: Channel Zero NSW
Client: K.W.Doggett Fine Paper
Stocks: Rives Design / Rives Tradition
Printed by: Print: Macdonald Masterson NSW Embellishment: Goldcraft Embossing NSW

Check out our new Rives Sketchbook with the brilliant little diddy thought up by the wonderful Alex Lloyd of Channel Zero. Elegant diamond thieves, our butler Jeeves and sailing in the Maldives? Yes please!

It all sounds dreamy doesn’t it? And it’s the perfect way to describe our Rives collection of papers, designed and made in the United Kingdom by Arjowiggins.

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Rives comes in two whimsical textures, one a woven elegant fine mesh and the other a quirky and distinctive felt. Offered in various shades of ivory, cream and pastels this speciality paper is the perfect partner for beautiful invitations, elegant stationery and printed material that deserves a little luxury.

We’d love to send you one of our Rives sketchbooks, so drop us a line and we’ll pop one in the post.

Enjoy and happy sketching.

Catherine

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