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British Book Awards: CPI White Quill jacket shortlisted
Wednesday 18. August 2010 - Pan Macmillan has achieved success in this years British Book Design and Production Awards, with a shortlisted jacket design for Bret Easton Ellis Imperial Bedrooms, printed by CPI White Quill.
The challenging design features a striking black and white image on a printed paper case, visible through a translucent yellow jacket. The jacket, printed with high ink coverage on Diamant Transprint, presented tricky drying properties overcome by the White Quill team to achieve the customers publication date. The printed paper case was also printed by White Quill, with the detail in the shadow of the striking heavily-contrasted image retained even with lamination. The 192pp Royal sized case bound book was printed and bound at CPI Mackays.
Visiting CPI White Quills Croydon factory today, Amelia Douglas, Production Manager at Pan Macmillan, was delighted with the results achieved by CPI and was very pleased to be shortlisted. “We knew that the inventive design by Chip Kidd was not without its challenges for the printer,” said Douglas, “but we were impressed by White Quills can-do attitude. The look and feel of the book makes it a very desirable object and were thrilled to have made it on to the British Book Awards shortlist.”
The British Book Design and Production Awards promote the excellence of British books and are run by the BPIF, Oxford Brookes University and The Publishers Association. Categories include Best Jacket/Cover design and Book of the Year, sponsored this year by CPI UK. The winners will receive their accolades at the annual awards ceremony, held in central London on 5th October. CPI Chief Executive Francois Golicheff will be presenting one of the awards.
Imperial Bedrooms by Bret Easton Ellis is published in hardback by Pan Macmillan, priced £16.99.