Dry rub transfers

As I mentioned in my previous news feed, we recently started working with creative agency The Church of London, responsible for publishing Huck and Little White lies magazines amongst other things, The church of London have always been keen to use tactile and interesting print in their publications. We just supplied these Letraset style dry rub transfers for the Huck magazine's yearly subscription's so if your going to subscribe this month look out for them...

Creative print management

We love print! anything and everything printed, from leaflets to brochures and all in between. But what we really get a kick out of is creative print! It's why we decided awhile back to actively attract those clients and creative agencies who's print projects and marketing campaigns are interesting. We think it's what makes print desirable and exciting! 

Printing adds not just the visual for your design but also has the added bonus of touch, even the smell of the ink can add a lasting memory to your design. Something a flickering screen can only dream of achieving. ( at least until some genius creates an app that makes the screen feel and smell like print)

Its not always straight forward though, great print projects can be time consuming, problematic, difficult and sometimes impossible! but we love it. 

Creative print management is one of our core specialities and we are always looking out for more "Champions of old media" contact us today and lets see if your idea can be printed? 

We just produced these rather nice concertina folded cards for imeus.  The fantastic Head to Toe expo is currently showing at the Unlimited editions gallery in Brighton until the 17th November. It's well worth a visit!

We recently started working for Creative agency The Church of London and have some great projects for Huck Magazine in the pipe line, more on that next time!

here are some printed postcards of fantastic images for their Anywhere Road event. Thick uncoated and high quality.

Stationery

Autumn tends to be a busy time of year in the printing industry, with many companies representing themselves at expos and also mailing out their new marketing campaigns. 
So its no surprise to hear we've been busy too! we have printed lots of great marketing material recently, coupled with online marketing, print really still is a top marketing tool, when used with great design and tactile papers and card, print really does leave your potential clients with a great lasting impression. 

Talking of tactile stocks we produced this lovely stationery set for London 
PR company BACALL Associates Letterheads, Compliment slips and Business cards all printed on an uncoated stock with the cards on a 400gsm thick card.
All design and branding was created by A space for something  and look fantastic.
Need marketing material or stationery? contact us today.

Print and Propaganda

The power of print has been used as a political tool from prints early beginning's. The ability to reach audiences and target the masses has been a perfect tool for various political reasons over the years. The first printed book Gutenberg's Bible below is a great example. 

During the first and second World Wars, print was used for Propaganda reasons too. Famously printed posters were used of striking images used by  The Soviet Union  see below,  the images where used as a way to rally the people.

During D Day thousands of fliers were dropped over France by allied forces as a call to arms for the french resistance. Fliers where also dropped over towns and villages to warn the residents to seek shelter from the pending air strikes.

Its all about the Athletics

GB Athletes have been enjoying a great haul at the London Olympics, and GB Athletics on the whole has reason to be optimistic for the future of their sport. 

Brighton Phoenix a great athletics club have been helping shape athletes for the future for all levels of ability and they have produced a fair few team GB athletes in their time too. None more famous than former Brighton Phoenix founder Steve Ovett who just happened to pop into our Annexe studios last week, what a treat that was, a personal hero of mine!! 

We have just produced these fantastic mat laminated welcome packs for the club.
With the popularity of the sport hitting a high, and athletics being a great way of keeping fit, why not join Brighton Phoenix as they cater for all abilities and ages.

BBQ anyone?

We supply anything and everything print related, as a print management company its our job to listen to our clients projects. We then set about understanding the requirement fully before quoting, sourcing and then delivering the goods, quality and price are always paramount with us.
over the last month we have had many interesting projects. One of our clients Besmoke needed packaging and food labels for a range of smoked ingredients all produced ready for the BBQ season! Well it may still come!

Concertina postcards

We recently had the pleasure of working with Dude Box the producers of those desirable limited edition vinyl toys, based in Shoreditch London, Dude Box use artists from around the globe to create awesome little figures. We highly recommend you go buy yourself one, they are limited after all http://dudebox.com/collections/the-dudes

We produced these lovely concertina postcards for the Dude Box launch party held in Shoreditch London last month, more details of the launch here. These concertina postcards were part of their goody bags each card was Litho printed onto a silk 350gsm stock and each one was perforated to create 5 individual postcards! the printed result was fantastic and all at a very reasonable cost.


If you're interested in printing concertina postcards or have a creative idea you want to bring alive in print contact us today Click here

Paddle Round The Pier

We recently produced the marketing and advertising material for the 
2012 Paddle Round The Pier festival. Its the Worlds biggest FREE beach and water sports festival.
Its the second year we have had the opportunity to work with PRTP and hope the weathers good for the event on the 7th and 8th July. This year looks to bigger and better than last years success, and with some great music acts confirmed and the Paddle Something Unusual event it should be a great weekend.
keep an eye out for all the outdoor media and posters and postcards all around Sussex. 
you can even download your own Paddle poster Here 
Paddle Round the Pier 2012 will be held on the 7th and 8th July 2012 at Hove Lawns and the West Pier Brighton and is FREE:)


Here are a few of the great images Designed by Mayer Media

Show me the lolly!

I scream you scream we all scream for Ice Cream.... We recently printed these postcards for Imeus 
I think you will agree they are rather tasty looking images ;)

Spring Time!!

Its been a very busy few months and we've had some great projects go through our offices in that time!
We have produced well over a quarter of a million printed items in the last month alone from, brochures, leaflets, stationery, loyalty cards, fine art, packaging, labels and magazines to mention a few. Amongst those orders we had the pleasure of working with Nilden at NLD Accountancy producing their TODO magazines. (see below)

We also had some more Robot City Marketing material to produce for the author, Paul Collicutt for his book signings, talks and workshops. We produced standees (photo below) Roll up banners, book plates, cards and more.

With the Brighton Open House season here again we've also been busy printing for Artists.

We produce Giclee Prints at fantastic rates. This is one of Mark Oliver's A2 Prints

Brighton Open House

Once again with the Brighton open House season soon upon us, we are offering
Greetings cards, Postcards and Giclee prints.
Email us for more details and prices info@inkysolutions.com

Just printed some limited edition Giclee prints for The Litter Bug fantastic images!!

Recycled Print

I have many clients asking if I can produce their printing "Green". Using recycled paper and vegetable based inks!
The simple answer is yes, but it got me thinking.

A few years back the Green revolution started with good reason, we can't keep taking the Earth's resources and expect the world to just keep giving!
A new market was born!
Organic.. locally sourced... recycled.. many variations were created to serve the growing interest in the Green market but to what purpose? Was it all for the good of our planet?
As with most mind changing revolutions, companies started to exploit the Big Green Idea to their own means.

Green now a big business takes a very large sector in many industries helping to employ thousands.
It has been a great success story for many people. It's also used as a money saver too.
Banks save a fortune by not sending out printed statements.
Is this for good? Or ambush marketing?

In my industry, print has had some good changes since Green came along. It's now more common than not that the Ink on your marketing material is made from soya based Inks and the paper would have come from a sustainable source, farmed.
But Is this Good?

Some printing companies quickly saw a great new advertising opportunity everything was Green based, offering recycled card and paper.
The question is how good is recycled stock?
As many customers wanted Green but still wanted the end product to be high quality, paper mills and recycling plants were forced to bleach the paper pulp to make it bright white again.
But what has a more detrimental effect on the planet, the bleaching of recycled paper or creating virgin paper from sustainable sources?
I don't have the facts to answer that question but it's worth thinking about.
I do think though, that as time has gone by the ethics of the printing and paper industry has improved and the mixture of recycled and virgin paper stocks like nine lives have struck up quite a good balance in the FSC V Recycled argument.

So if you are placing a print order today for the first time, although some are great, don't feel obliged to order from Green printers, just simply check the paper is FSC approved chances are the ink will be soya based anyway.




January 2012

Happy New Year

With 2011 behind us now and 2012 in full swing its a great time to reflect on the past business year, we hope you've had as much success and excitement as we have? We finished our last quarter with the introduction of some great new clients who will now be benefiting from our Print Management services.

We recently produced some great calendars for the Gardian comic strip and BBC radio 4 comedy Clare in the Community If your a fan you can buy your copies here Clare in the community calendars Amoung others we also produced these wonderful Dr Who Posters for Paul Cemmick.

June 2011

Paddle Round The Pier

Recently we have had the great opportunity to work with David Samuel Associates in producing their Paddle Round the Pier marketing material. We are proud to be a part of this great event which has been running for many years and in that time has raised over £100,000 for charity. We hope this event will be another great sucess and recommend you pop along yourselves on the the 2nd and 3rd of July for a great weekend.

Brighton Open Houses

Throughout May we have also been working along side some of our creative clients. We have had a busy old time producing fine art prints for the Brighton open house season for Penny Dann also some great limited edition prints for Peter Mac and Vicky Woodgate and we produced some fine pieces of artwork created by James Hood for the Adam And Joe Show on BBC 6 Music.

March 2011

Moving onwards and upwards

Exciting times of late. We have moved into new studios in the centre of Brighton. We are now at: The Annex, 43 Belmont Street, Brighton, BN1 4HN.

We have also been busy working along side our clients too, helping them as this year picks up!

with the up coming Brighton Marathon we have been helping prepare for their expo, which we expect to be a great success. And with other events and shows coming thick and fast this time of year we have been kept on our toes. But its not just our events clients who are busy, our design clients too seem to be taking on interesting projects all in all its looking like a promising year.

We recently had the pleasure of supplying stationery and marketing material for John Miller Designs, and Adrian Johnson Studios using Foil printing and Litho printing, below are couple of images of some of the products, the end results being high quality and affordable.

Intersted in adding value to your print project? get in touch with us today with your ideas, we would love to make them a reality. info@inkysolutions.com

1st November 2010

Open House Season again

Giclee Offer
Fine art prints A3 "Giclee" full colour high quality prints
10 for £59
25 for £110


Greetings Card Offer

A5 Greetings cards and envelopes
Full colour Litho quality print
250 for £119

Contact Steve
info@inkysolutions.com
to place orders or request more information

31st October 2010

Busy Season

Its been a busy time at inky towers of late, along with the usual manic deadlines this time of year brings we have also had the pleasure of working with a couple of events companies, supplying exhibition and marketing material and shipping it to various venues around the country. We have also been involved in the design and print for the black pearl sailing team, supplying them with branded crew shirts for The rolex middle ocean yacht race.

10th August 2010

Brighton Illustrators Group

I recently spoke at the Brighton Illustrators 6 x 6 meeting in Brighton's North laines along with 5 great Illustrators discussing their work. My talk was on creative's self marketing themselves and tips on how to use social media to their advantage. I also covered other media such as QR bar codes, a great way of integrating print media with online and how your marketing campaigns can really work. With over 100 members and having run for 20 plus years, The Brighton Illustrators group has been a must for Illustrators living within the Brighton area http://www.brightonillustrators.co.uk For those who missed my talk please drop me an email for a free self marketing booklet info@inkysolutions.com

29th July 2010

Brighton Illustrators Talk

Marketing Talk. Thursday 29th July I shall be talking at the Brighton Illustrators groups, 6x6 talk up stairs at the Eagle in Brighton's North Laines. Come along for tips and pointers on marketing for Creative's

18th February 2010

Giclee Offer

Selling your art online? Taking part in an Open House?
Fine art prints "Giclee" full colour high quality prints
10 for £49
25 for £99


Greetings Card Offer

A5 Greetings cards
Full colour Litho quality print
200 for £99

Contact Steve
info@inkysolutions.com
to place orders or request more information.





28th October 2009

We have just completed the printing of promotional postcards for 6 Illustrators at The Annexe Studios in Brighton... some examples can be seen below including a folded Concertina A6 postcard pack and various A6 cards printed using Litho.....If you require a similar service, then please do not hesitate to get intouch via email or phone to get a very competitive quote