CATEGORY

Mix

RANK


PRODUCTION DETAILS

Quantity

1,000x9

Page Count

48, 76, 96 + wraps

Paper Stock

Covers: Strathmore Grandee, Charcoal Gray, Cover
Flysheets: Strathmore Premium Wove, Soft Gray
Text 1: Strathmore Pure Cotton Wove, Ultimate White
Text 2: Strathmore Premium, Ultimate White Lines
Text 3: Strathmore Writing Laid, Ultimate White, Watermarked
Wrap-around covers: Strathmore Premium Pinstripe Laid, Ultimate White
Envelopes: Strathmore Premium Pinstripe Laid, Ultimate White
Bookplates: Strathmore Writing Label Wove, Ultimate White

Number of Colors

CMYK

Dimensions

3.5 × 5.5
5 × 8.25
7.5 × 10

Binding

Hand stitched

Special Techniques

Digital
Foil stamp
Blind emboss
Stitching
Perforation
Rounded corners


ADDL. DESIGN CREDITS

Designer

Jennifer Wilkerson


ADDL. PRODUCTION CREDITS

Envelope dies and conversion

Mohawk

Bookbinding Roswell

Bookbinding


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LINKS

Aurora Design
Mohawk Innovation Center
Quantum
Roswell Bookbinding

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CLIENT

Mohawk is a fourth-gen­er­a­tion, fam­i­ly-owned and oper­at­ed busi­ness based in Cohoes, NY, it is North Amer­i­ca’s largest pri­vate­ly-owned man­u­fac­tur­er of fine papers and envelopes—they car­ry the sig­na­ture brands Mohawk Superfine and Strathmore.


BRIEF

To intro­duce Mohawk into the con­sumer prod­uct mar­ket­place and estab­lish them as an Amer­i­can mak­er of pre­mi­um products—beautiful raw mate­ri­als, well-con­sid­ered design, high qual­i­ty objects. Begin to share and cel­e­brate the Strath­more Archives, a trea­sure trove of over 100 years of design, with a broad­er, appre­cia­tive audience.


APPROACH

These jour­nals are a cel­e­bra­tion of col­or, paper, and the Strath­more Archives. Each jour­nal fea­tures papers from across the exist­ing prod­uct line. Laid fin­ish wraps and cus­tom envelopes rein­force Strath­more’s her­itage as a man­u­fac­tur­er of fine writ­ing papers. Gray Grandee cov­er pro­vides a neu­tral ground for fab­u­lous emboss­ing and bright foil stamp­ing. Text papers range from pure cot­ton to a mod­ern lined paper. The wrap pat­terns and cus­tom book­plates rein­ter­pret his­toric art­work from the Strath­more Archives and mar­ry it with the Mar­i­an Ban­t­jes this­tle that graces cur­rent reams of paper. The art­work on the back fly­leaf, acti­vat­ed by the Mohawk Live app, pro­vides spe­cial offers and information.

PRODUCTION LESSONS

Produced in four months these journals tested everyone involved. What allowed us to persevere was working with a great team of committed individuals—led by an enthusiastic cheerleading client. With all of the details of a project with this complexity, we all broke down. However, being part of such a fabulous team buoyed us and kept us moving forward. And on track.

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