A football book, always good for morale!
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Not for sale I am afraid, but I will ask Rick if we could do a competition to give one away?
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I have shown a picture of Zanetti for all our Argentinean friends, for some reason we have a lot of followers in Argentina? Thanks for the great footballers, keep them coming! more players like Tevez to West Ham Utd Please :)
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Here is the official Press Release!
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Eleven is a collection of images of footballers (originally commissioned for a campaign by Medhi Benmamar and Alvin Chan at Nike) shot by Rick Guest. Designed by Yacht Associates, printed by Generation Press and published through by Generation Yacht, Eleven sports an embossed soft white leather hardback cover. "The concept for this book was to create 'prints' that were bound into a book, rather than images to be 'designed' around, hence it became very much an exercise in removing superfluous content and almost designing out the design to leave something that communicated through it's tactility and functionality," explains Yacht Associates' Richard Bull.
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"Each page has a serrated tear line down the inner edge, which serves to aid removal but more importantly acts as 'nod' to the owner that permission is granted to remove pages if desired," adds Bull. "There are eleven 'Hero' shots and eleven 'Action Shots', the later images are fold out landscapes and the look follows a format where a fold-out appears after every 'Hero' shot. The technical challenges we faced required an enormous amount of research and development with Generation Press - which culminated in the book taking almost a year from conception to finished item. Published by Generation Yacht this book exists in a very limited edition of 100 copies and is not for sale."
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"The book was initially a reaction to the ephemeral nature of commercial work, to give substance to not just the work, but to the experience of shooting it," says Guest of the project. "A reminder of the journey, travelling madly around Europe, every day a different country, a different player, working with a fantastically tight crew, shooting frenetically within the tiny windows in the players schedules. Later however, it became more of a thankyou to all those involved; of course they get paid and get to tell their mates they were involved, but it's not the same as holding something you were part of in your hands, something to be proud of. All the people involved gave more than they were asked, it made sense to say thanks in a way that did justice to that."
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Rick Guest
Design: Yacht Associates
Photography: Snaps of books ;) Jason Tozer
Art Direction: Richard Bull at Yacht Associates
Published by: Generation Yacht

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D&AD Awards dinner tickets, designed by NB:Studio
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This is our most recent work for D&AD and our first real opportunity to work with NB:Studio,
D&AD had put us together for this project, it was a real pleasure to work with the guys at NB they really valued our input into how best to produce this ticket and envelope. We hadn't worked together before so building trust quickly was key to getting this project to look so good!
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One side of the ticket was was foil-blocked in white and yellow foil on black Colorplan, the reverse was printed lithographically on white Colorplan, we then duplexed the two together and die cut with radius corners to give a lovely sturdy 700 gsm Ticket.
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The envelope was was made from Black Colorplan with a large foil blocked image in white foil that came out really crisp and clear, we then die cut the envelope and made it up, with a die cut sticker to secure it closed.
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Congratulations to NB:Studio for such amazing visuals and livery for the ceremony, it was mind blowingly good!
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D&AD
Design: NB: Studio
Paper: GF Smith

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Wow look at this for a line up, proud to have graced our presses with this beauty, this was a labour of love, great imagery, great products and a great design.
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We were afforded the time with this project to do things in the right order! working with the designer Michael (from Build) from the very beginning.
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This allowed us to plan each element including getting the sections with the scores on the inserts working out so when all the sheets came together in the slip case, both scored edges were equal.
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Another attention to detail was getting the wrap around slip case just right so the depth of the capacities were wide enough to hold the inserts but not to wide to let them fall out.
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One of my favourite aspects on this is the use of the litho printed white on the recycled grey board along side the foil blocking & debossing, a great example of using alternative materials and turning them into something special!
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Commonwealth
Featuring photography by Timothy Saccenti
Photo-retouching DopePope
Designed by Build

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Tom Hingston Studio Stationery, a real treat to get this project, a journey of discovery! Lots of things going on with this? We really had to push the processes to get what THS wanted.
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Answers on a postcard to figure this lot out?
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Tom Hingston Studio

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Daniella Luxembourg and Amalia Dayan Disasters booklet for the Maastricht Art Fair.
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A 650gsm 100% recycled cover with gold foil blocking helped add the X factor to this job, using Phoenix Motion on the text really complimented the cover beautifully. The cover being so thick meant we had to put an extra thick score in and stitch the book in very precisely!
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Designed by Punkt, big fans of their work! check out Swami's Surf - a side line for the talented Giles Dunn from Punkt.
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Design: Punkt
Client: Daniela Luxembourg
Links: Swami's Surf

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Sergio Rossi Invitation and envelope, we made a beautiful hand made lined envelope with a classic Colorplan silk weaved emboss finish on the outside.
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Foil blocked invitation and envelope. Invitation duplexed to 1050gsm
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Design: Gucci Group