Beautiful Stamen Watercolour Maps paper

Saturday, April 14th 2012

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Here at Newspaper Club, a world leader in the uploading and ordering of PDFs for newspaper printing, we have always been big fans Stamen’s work.

Stamen Maps Newspaper

You can imagine our excitement when the order came in for a paper full of their new watercolour maps! Stamen have recently released three different map visual styles for use with OpenStreetMap under a Creative Commons licence*.

Stamen Maps Newspaper

They wanted to make a paper for the recent Where 2.0 conference in San Francisco. The paper features pull out posters of different cities using the gorgeous watercolour map. The watercolour treatment seems to really suit the texture of newsprint.

Stamen Maps Newspaper

Stamen Maps Newspaper

Holy smoke, that finished paper is a beautiful thing. I think I might get my copy framed.

Stamen Maps Newspaper

* This post was written by Art, it’s highly likely I got some of the map terminology wrong. Sorry for that.

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Truffle Time Newspaper

Sunday, January 22nd 2012

The nice people from Madame Truffles in Melbourne, Australia have written a blog post about their recent, beautiful, newspaper which we are reproducing here.

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I thought it was worth writing an additional post with a bit more detail about the truffle newspaper we’ve made this year. When I say ‘we’ve made’, it’s important to note this includes Ian who designed it so beautifully, and The Newspaper Club who actually got the thing printed. (I thoroughly recommend anyone who wants to make a paper about, well, anything really, to use them.) The papers arrived this week and they look and feel great.

The paper will be available in store (to take home) for anyone wanting to learn more about truffles. Some of the pages are shown below. It’s been fun making it and we’ve had to do a lot of digging around ourselves (not sure if that’s a truffle pun, but if it is, it’s not intended) and have learnt a lot along the way.

There’s an interview with Simon Harvey – an ex military dog trainer who now trains truffle dogs in Tasmania. And also an interview with Peter Marshall from Terra Preta truffiere in NSW. Some of you may recall Peter from when we went truffle hunting with him last year. His approach to truffles is quite unique and he’s a fascinating man to spend time with, which hopefully comes across in the article.

There’s also hints and tips on looking after truffles, a few recipes (thanks to Tony, Kate and Andrew), some facts and figures about the industry, plus some other nonsense in there as well.

A page for the fact fans

 

I’m pretty sure it was P Diddy who once said ‘Truffles are the bomb’

 

They’re not that easy to find…

 

The magical world underneath the trees

You can see the newspaper in the Newsagent

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Tasty newspapers

Monday, December 5th 2011

Cook It Yourself by James Brook

These delicious-looking newspapers were produced by James Brook, an artist and graphic designer based in London as part of his MA Graphic Design at the London College of Communication, University of the Arts London. They all have a culinary theme, including recipes, photos of kitchen equipment and even shopping lists.

James Brook's cookery newspaper

It’s an unusual thing to see in newsprint so we asked James to tell us more about his project:

I wanted to make a cook book that challenged the instant visual gratification and high production values of most contemporary cook books and their foregrounding of looking over cooking. The newspaper format, with its connotations of ephemerality is far removed from the excesses of contemporary cook book production. It is a practical format for the kitchen: it can be spilled on, cut or torn up and written on by the user; in addition, its scale allows it to work as a poster, pasted up on the wall to consult whilst cooking. The newspaper is something that exists in, and is a part of, everyday life like food itself. The newspaper is an ideal vehicle for suggesting that cooking should be a part of daily life.

If you’d like to see more, James’s MA Show is on at LCC until 8 December and there are more photos on jamesbrookdesign.blogspot.com.

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Bellissima newspapers

Tuesday, November 22nd 2011

Bellissima newspapers

As the name suggests, these Bellissima newspapers are very beautiful. Designed by Chris Gregori in Denver, CO, they highlight the new Bellissima jewellery range.

Bellissima

Printed digitally in a small run, a newspaper was chosen as something “that wouldn’t get lost in the mail” like other promotional material.

Bellissima

More photos on Chris’s website.

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Black and white and read all over

Wednesday, September 7th 2011

Black + White Photography: September issue

There’s a very useful article in the September issue of Black and White Photography magazine on different ways of creating a newspaper using black and white photographs. Tim Daly explains how to prepare images in different ways for different results. It’s worth getting a copy if you’re interested in printing a photo paper.

Escalier C's newspaper

There are also some lovely examples of black and white photography in this digitally-printed newspaper from Escalier C, a Parisian graphic design and art direction workshop. More photos on their website.

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The Hoxton A.M.

Sunday, July 17th 2011

You may have heard of Ministry of Stories, a charitable organisation that helps young people write their own stories. Based on Dave Eggers 826 Valencia and with his blessing and the support of others such as Nick Hornby they opened up in Hackney last year.

A few weeks ago they made a newspaper with a bunch of aforementioned young people. And not only that, we are eternally in their debt because they made this super video about their newspaper. That’s the kind of blogtastic social link love we really appreciate here at Newspaper Club.

Watch the video below. It’s ace.

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The Long Good Newspaper

Tuesday, March 29th 2011

The Long Good Read is a site that highlights the most popular, most interesting, long form content from the Guardian, twice a day. It’s the meaty, good stuff. The stuff you want to sink into on a Sunday morning, over a cup of coffee.

It was created by Dan Catt at the Guardian. It fetches all of the articles over a certain word count from the Guardian API, and uses data from the Guardian Zeitgeist to pick the best articles for the day. Those are published on the site at 5am every day, and you can subscribe to the RSS feed or stick the articles in something like Instapaper or Readability.

The only problem is that, except perhaps for the Kindle, no-one really enjoys reading on a screen, especially for long-form content like this. And so we helped Dan to produce a prototype of a paper version of a week of The Long Good Read (12th-18th March). And here it is.

The Long Good Read, Weekly Paper

Dan says:

This issue with 14 stories weighs in at 24 pages. It feels like a real thing, you can hold it, fold it, take out wasps and flies in one arcing sweep with it, it’s a thing of wonder.

It’s also different from reading a newspaper, your eyes aren’t skipping round the page as much, scanning articles figuring out which ones to read. Sure, in this case not every article is going to appeal and you can quickly move onto the next one (and the one after etc) until you find something you want to read. But when you do it’s always something decent to get your teeth into.

It feels like something I’d want to subscribe to, a longer title could be “Things Probably Worth Reading as Filtered by Everyone Else, Weekly“. I can see myself reading it on the train (indeed I did) and doodling in the footers, or settling down with my slippers and liquorice pipe in front of the fire with it.

The Long Good Read, Spread

Read more about it over at Dan’s fantastic blog post explaining what worked, what didn’t, and why.

And watch this space: Dan’s having another go next week.

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AND Journal issue 2 now available

Tuesday, March 8th 2011

AND Issue 2

Nice to see issue 2 of AND Journal making its way through the presses. AND is a publication set up by Graphic Design students at University College Falmouth to focus on contextualising, design, culture and society. This second issue ruminates on the topic “Thought before form”.

Find out more from the AND website and get a copy here.

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Beautiful Begg paper

Monday, February 28th 2011

Begg paper

If you’ve arrived here via Twitter you’ll have noticed that I cleverly linked to the same article with 3 different headlines. That’s because this beautiful paper by Begg in Scotland covers three very important points.

Begg paper

Firstly, although it was made before my legendary design advice post, it’s the perfect example of a well designed paper. They’ve used big, bold, contrasty pictures, simple black text and avoided the pitfalls we discussed. ARTHR and any desktop publishing software like InDesign or Pages are only platform programmes. Their output is only as good as the input they’re given. There’s no magic ‘make this look loads better’ filter. If the content you are working with is great to start with it will look great in the finished product. It pays to think a bit about images and text before you start making your paper.

Begg paper

Secondly, they’ve managed to make making a newspaper look easy. Sometimes people worry about what to put in a paper. How to fill those pages? If that’s bothering you – worry not! With us you can make a paper as small as 4 pages. Or if you’d like more pages you can follow Begg’s example and use a nice simple cover (one page down) a great big photo in the middle (three pages down) and some contact details on the back (four pages down) leaving the rest for your articles or other written content. Simple.

Begg paper

Thirdly, isn’t it blooming gorgeous?

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Guardian SXSW Hack Day

Monday, February 14th 2011

Guardian SXSW Hack Day

We spoke at the Guardian’s SXSW Hack Day at the weekend. That’s typical of us, working the weekend like all hungry young start ups.

We didn’t do any hacking, we just showed some examples of the different things you can do with newsprint. Jemima has written a nice article about it here. I suspect Sales & Marketing’s killer phrase “the aesthetic is rather like Geocities – it doesn’t matter how it looks, it’s just very pleasing to have made [it]“. Will fly round the interent and deliver hundreds of sales.

Guardian SXSW Hack Day newspaper

Talking of sales, the Guardian were kind enough to use our award winning service to make a newspaper themselves which was handed out to all the hackers.

Spotify

The picture above was taken by Aleks Krotoski of the chaps from Spotify, a music start up. They spoke just after us. They didn’t mention Geocities.

If you’d like to know which hacks won pop on over to the Guardian’s SXSW coverage. Thanks to all who came along to listen.

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