To any designer, to present creative ideas through printing techniques is an exciting experiment and challenge. Good, creative printing techniques can add to the brilliance to designs. This book includes various examples, from book binding to brand image design.
This book comprises four chapters. The first chapter, materials, introduces various kinds of specialty papers, fibers, plastics and wood; the second chapter, printing, introduces examples of lithography, silkscreen, letterpress and various specialty inks; chapter three, finishing, includes examples of die-cut, laser cutting, debossing, UV and foil blocking, and; chapter four, folding & binding, involves perfect binding, concertina fold, roll-fold, Japanese binding and hand-sewn binding.