Design

Christmas gift guide: Prezzies for printers

Our selection of stocking fillers for the print-mad special someone in your life

EC2i: “A fantastic team and fantastic clients”

EC2i celebrates 21 years in business

EC2i has celebrated its 21st anniversary by marking its evolution from traditional repro house to a technology-led creative production agency.

Affinity Designer 2 is part of the new package from Serif

Serif launches Affinity Version 2

Software company Serif has launched Version 2 of its Affinity creative suite.

Olin Design: colours on the way via Pop'Set integration

Antalis updates on Arjo range revamp

Antalis plans to relaunch its Premium Offset and Creative Papers offerings in Q1 of the new year, with pre-production manufacturing trials at new mills underway.

Viva Magenta: Pantone has drawn inspiration “from nature and what is real”

Pantone goes primordial for 2023

Pantone has described its pick for Color of the Year 2023 as a stand-out statement colour that is “rooted in the primordial”.

The copperplate of Megan Rigby's stag design

Engraver's delight as winning design comes to life

An apprentice hand engraver has seen her work come to life at Baddeley Brothers as a die-stamped Christmas card after winning a competition aimed at keeping the craft of engraving alive.

Part of the Freetone colour picker

Pantone alternatives mooted

Alternatives to Pantone are popping up as the fallout from the Adobe-Pantone split also gains wider traction in the design community.

Some surprising returns to October’s ranking of most read stories

While the ongoing battle between Royal Mail and the CWU dominating October’s listicle wasn’t much of a surprise, the presence of an August news article covering the falling out of Adobe and Pantone...

All Pantone libraries bar CMYK Coated/Uncoated and Metallics will be removed from Adobe CC

Pantone hikes Connect pricing

Pantone has more than doubled the price of its Pantone Connect plug-in since the summer.

Dayfold: "The more creative print there is around, the better it is for everyone"

Dayfold pushes print's creativity and ROI

Dayfold has taken matters into its own hands to try to boost know-how about the creative possibilities of print.