PPP2: Visiting Lecturer- Matthew from GF Smith

GF Smith are a Paper Merchant who purchase paper from all over the world and sell the paper on within the UK

Paper Merchant
- 60% of Paper is from the Lake District in the UK
- 120 year old independent British brand
- High Quality and well Respected

Specifications
- Think about the product you are making and consider the stock beforehand
- Physicality provides a personal touch- nice quality and makes an impact
- Business Cards, Letterheads, Brochures, Envelopes and Packaging, ext.
- 1 million hand-made Envelopes a year
- Designers buy from the Printer and the Printer buys from GF Smith

Products
- Can select either of the Black & White and Colour
- Printing a colour on a piece of paper would look unprofessional and would have white edges
- The dye is the perfect shade and even throughout
- There are 4 Variants available:

• Colorplan- 50 Colours, 8 Weights and 25 Emboss Texture
• Smooths- Creams, Whites and Blacks
• Textures- Nice for Cover Stocks
• Specials- Wood Pine, Metallics, Fibreglass Inspired

"Good Printer, Good Design, Good Stock- You've got a Good Design"

Factory Services

- 4 Paper Machines Half a Mile Long

- Handmade Envelopes

- Cut Sheets to Size

- Packaging Prototypes

Beauty In The Making Exhibition

"Beauty In The Making Exhibition" (2012) by MadeThought x GF Smith

MadeThought x GF Smith (2012) "Beauty In The Making Exhibition" [Internet] Available from http://www.septemberindustry.co.uk/madethought-gfsmith/ (Accessed 18th November 2013)

- Showcase Brand

- Live Paper Making and Envelope Making

From the talk, we were given the opportunity to have a look and feel of some of the samples that Matthew had brought with him:

Fine Coated Paper Leaflet by Studio Makgill

Fine Coated Paper Brochure by Studio Makgill

Mohawk Navajo Uncoated Paper Brochure

GF Smith's Colorplan Swatch Book/ Notebook by MadeThought

Colorplan Swatchbook

Softy Textured Paper Notebook

Specialist Paper Swatch (Metallics and Fluorescence) 

Textured Papers

Master Specifier (2011) by Sea

Being able to physically experience the stocks for ourselves, getting to feel them and see them in action and how they have printed was great. Don't get me wrong, its good when someone comes in and talks to us but its even better when we are able to get involved as it makes it easier to understand and makes it more interesting. We have been offered the chance to order some samples of paper for ourselves and I will defiantly be taking advantage of that. This will make for great research for the stock element of the Design for Print Research as well.