Beautiful Notpla seaweed paper turns the tide on printing stock to achieve zero waste

Green foil on Notpla Ocean paper

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

Bauhaus Design Provides Winning Inspiration For Design Students

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Taking design students out of the ‘digital’ classroom and into the noisy, machine-driven world of mechanical printing provides an insight into the process that can turn a plain piece of paper into a work of art. For the fourth year in succession, and narrowly avoiding ‘cancellation by coronavirus’, Baddeley Brothers hosted two students from Ravensbourne … Read more

Baddeley Brothers bespoke envelope cutting

The fine art of bespoke envelope cutting isn’t a skill that many people hold, so it’s understandable why Baddeley Brothers have had the same committed cutter, Terry Smith, for 50 years. Spitalfields Life has again captured some of Baddeley Brothers’ rich heritage in commercial and hand finished envelopes, explaining little-known facts about envelopes and envelope … Read more