Marc Hindley 
Harry Stokes fist-pumped the air when he learned he’d won our annual card contest. Run with the Hand Engravers Association, it featured blue engraved dunes and sky, with gold engraving wording and stars. His Christmas card two-colour design featuring the elements of the celestial night sky, captured the eyes of the judges this year. The … Read more
Now and then a project draws you in, appealing to the senses and enthusiasm of a new product. Kaveri Drinks spent a lot of effort taste testing and then understanding the right way to launch ginger liqueur. But had difficulty finding someone to produce the labels to do the design justice and help launch and … Read more
A team of four second-year design students took part in this year’s Im-Print Im-Press collaboration between Baddeley Brothers, GF Smith, Foilco and Ravensbourne University. Twenty-year-old Will gave us an insight into the programme from his perspective. Will commented how precise and detail-oriented the print process is:: ‘…particularly when it comes to paper selection, foiling, and … Read more
As the UK’s leading manufacturer of specialist envelopes, Baddeley Brothers is pleased to launch an online personalised envelope portal for clients to buy and customise a high-quality range of Colorplan products. The end-to-end service offers customers the flexibility to choose their colour, style and size in their own time. Then they have the option to … Read more
An artist who can count some of the world’s best musicians as his customers, has won the 2024 Hand Engravers Associations Christmas Card competition, sponsored by Baddeley Brothers. When John Cook discovered he was dyslexic, he used his hands to express himself. At school, he excelled in crafts such as woodwork and metalwork, and when … Read more
Building a paper space rocket may seem like a straightforward task, but when the process is split between six students collaborating on a design project, the team had to be firing on all boosters. Ravensbourne University organised and hosted the annual Im-print Im-press event, sponsored and judged by Baddeley Brothers, Foilco, and GF Smith. In … Read more
A Cambridgeshire man who has been engraving for 10 years, has triumphed in the Hand Engravers’ Association Christmas card competition. Ibrahim Batchelder entered a design that encapsulated the frozen close-up geometry of a snowflake. And the winning piece was silver die-stamped by Baddeley Brothers, who sponsor the competition every year. The snowflake design took Ibrahim around four days to complete. … Read more
A collaboration with a textile company has yielded impressive results after fibres from discarded cloth have been successfully recycled into paper products that can be printed on. Baddeley Brothers has been working with FibreLab to test printing on Papertex, the name being given to an innovation by the East London company. FibreLab is a hyper-local … Read more
A design student has made a bold statement against plastics with an artwork made from foiling paper, while exploring the opportunities and artistic beauty of foil blocking. Luc Crossley was this year’s candidate for the Imprint Impress project undertaken every year in a collaboration between Ravensbourne University, Baddeley Brothers, GF Smith and Foilco. Luc is … Read more
UPDATE: Congratulations to Notpla – 2022 Winners of The Earthshot Prize You might think a company founded 160 years ago, and enormously proud of their role in preserving traditional printing techniques, wouldn’t be playing with paper made from weeds. But you’d be wrong. The sixth-generation family firm championing the methods used to print the first … Read more
