Aleksander Lenart

Paper Sizes Exposed on Facebook

13 April 2012

You might have experienced that we at PrintHouse are a very sociable lot, but you might not realise we also actively maintain our on-line social life — our own Facebook page! And we’ve just added a really cool feature to our page, which alone should make you like us a lot (just click that “like” [...]

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Photo Studio Example Pictures

14 February 2012

PrintHouse’s brand new Photo Studio is now fully operational and I’d like to share some examples of products that have been recorded there lately. Part 1: Planning, budget and design Part 2: Realisation, setup and workflow Part 3: Printed product photography examples Printed materials photography Items printed here at PrintHouse are nice objects to be [...]

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Photo Studio Setup & Workflow

13 December 2011

In previous post I’ve described the planning of a small product photography studio. Several weeks of decorating, installing and one burned drill later the studio space has been finished and fully equipped, so let’s see how it came out and how it is set up. Part 1: Planning, budget and design Part 2: Realisation, setup [...]

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Printed Product Photography Studio

18 October 2011

PrintHouse Corporation is constantly busy printing some incredible pieces in the ‘ink on paper’ department. In order to showcase this high quality and share our extensive printed output with everyone, we decided to set up a small but fully capable photographic studio at our premises. I was tasked with that project, since I have much interest [...]

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Shop a Brochure

16 August 2011

After all is done & dusted and your brochure (or any other creation) is printed and delivered, you may want to put it out there for everyone to admire. One quick method is to reach for your mobile phone, do a quick snapshot and upload to Facebook. Sure thing, but let’s assume we want to do something [...]

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Capital Presentation

28 June 2011

Here at PrintHouse we’ve been helping various financial institutions to produce quality printed materials for a long time now. Companies like PricewaterhouseCoopers, Standard & Poor’s, Lloyd’s of London and many more Square Mile’s residents were assisted by us in creation of a range of brochures, leaflets, annual reports, stationery and other items to great results. Merchant [...]

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Two-tone, hands-on

12 April 2011

In my last post, I demonstrated how effective and attractive can a two spot colour print be. Today, I want to share some behind-the-scenes of achieving similar result in a quick and easy tutorial. Choosing colours Let’s say our project is a tropical destination postcard and it will contain a photograph of a nice sandy [...]

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In a good tone

8 February 2011

Once in a while there is a need to print using just Pantone colours. This can happen when a specific corporate colour is required to be used or when CMYK doesn’t offer that vivid shade we’re after. Also, the reason may be that we just need one or two colours to print our brochure or [...]

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Putting Pantone in the mix

7 December 2010

As a designer — and possibly as Fred Bloggs too — it is likely that you’ve heard about Pantone. To make things clear, however, let’s remind ourselves what Pantone means in print business. In simple terms it means designers and clients can choose from over a thousand precisely formulated colours, each of them having its [...]

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Bitmap Size Calculator

12 October 2010

It is often hard for people that don’t have experience in print to understand what exactly is image size. Pixel dimensions, physical dimensions and resolution get confused, not to mention translating between units and visualising how a photo sitting on one’s hard drive will perform in print. Do you think it is too small to use? [...]

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