StudioThomson portfolio

Brothers Mark and Christopher Thomson founded StudioThomson in 2004 as a multi-disciplinary agency specialising in design and art direction and in the last 16 years have built a reputation as one of London’s leading creative studios. Based in Portobello in London, they work with a wide roster of clients in fashion, skincare, photographers and many more ...and they have appeared on this blog many times over the years.

This is a superb printed portfolio showing their work...

Size is 250x176mm, portrait and is a 36pp self cover but is completely unbound. Many people might think this wouldn't work and would fall apart but because due consideration has been taken to choose the right material and weight, it holds together perfectly...

The text material chosen is our Omnia 120gsm, which would beautifully reproduce the variety of different images especially the vivid colours and not forgetting the fleshtones ...and it looks wonderful! Above shows the unbound sections fanned out. Below, shows the inside front and back cover, which works as a spread with the text pages placed underneath.

As one might expect, the images are superb and show a selection of their design and art direction projects...

Click on images to enlarge

Centre spread below...

Unlike many publications featured on this blog, which are printed offset litho, this has been digitally printed on an HP Indigo press. The colours are strong and punchy and the whole publication has a matt, tactile look and feel, every bit as good as litho.

Omnia is now kept as a stock item with "sapphire treatment". This special treatment is applied to papers and provides a "key" so that the inks (which are different to litho inks) work on the paper surface. The great thing is the job just doesn't look and feel like a digital job. Below is a detail shot showing the excellent fleshtone reproduction.

Inside back spread...

The Omnia 120gsm is a bulky sheet but in the unbound format, it flops and folds beautifully in the hand.

The art direction is by Mark and Chris Thomson and the quality of the direction and photography is matched by the exceptional digital print by Screaming Colour.

https://studiothomson.com/
http://www.screamingcolour.com/

Posted by Justin Hobson 21.05.2020

Preen Resort Invitation

Preen began life as a bijoux boutique on London's Portobello Road in 1996 and is now one of Britain's hippest labels. Design duo Justin Thornton and Thea Bregazzi count Kate Moss, Michelle Obama and Samantha Cameron among their customers. Their Resort 2012 collection is based on a Japanese references being hand-embroidered, block-printed onto silk, and knit into intarsia sweaters.

This is the invitation for the launch of the collection in London at the Club at the Ivy (very fancy!). It's not an easy one  photograph satisfactorily - it's worth clicking on the images to bring them up to scale. The size of the invitations is A5 (210x148mm) portrait. It is printed in two colours (offset litho) in red and black on our Flora Noce 240gsm. For those not familiar with Flora, it has a natural "rustic" feel and this shade is a light buff colour and it has small wood shives in the sheet. The Flora has then been mounted/pasted on our exceptionally thick Monoblack 1400mics to give the finished item a black edge.

It works really well, but is really hard to demonstrate in a photograph!

...and here is the pic which shows the black edge:

Design by Studio Thomson. Printing and the finishing (duplexing) is by Xtraprint based in London EC2.

...and thank you for the note, Mark.

http://www.preen.eu/
http://www.studiothomson.com/

http://www.xtraprint.co.uk/

Posted by Justin Hobson 31.05.2012

Jobs from the past - Number 30

Regular followers of this blog will know that my first post of every month is a "job from the past" so that I can show some of the really good work from years gone by....

 

Aquascutum - Show Invite

Spring Summer 2006

This is the invitation for the launch of the Aquascutum Spring/Summer 2006 collection at the Banqueting House in London.

Unfortunately it's a really hard job to satisfactorily show on this blog. The reasons being that it's printed on our lovely Offenbach Bible 60gsm and therefore has a light feel and "rattle" to it and unfortunately you can't get an idea of the tactility on the screen! The design uses show through which works really well, but is equally hard to demonstrate here!

The invitation is A3 size (297x210mm) and is folded to A5. It is printed in just one colour, both sides by Generation Press. It looks and feels beautiful.

It is designed by Studio Thomson and fortunately I still have Mark's explanatory note which tells you about it far better than I can...

www.aquascutum.com
www.studiothomson.com
www.generationpress.co.uk

Posted by Justin Hobson 02.04.2012