Disciplines

Don’t let the funding maze deter skills goals
When printing giant Polestar shut its doors for the last time earlier this year, it wasn’t just the trade for its various high-profile clients that rivals were clamouring over – its staff were in...

Killer app: Leycol focuses attention on a most goodly book
To print or not to print? That was the question posed to east London-based Leycol Printers when it was approached by luxury eyewear designer Cutler and Gross.

Print’s buzz defies the doom-mongers
Brexit, shmexit. While you could have been forgiven for expecting last week’s PrintWeek Awards to be a little subdued compared with recent years – with the main topic of conversation being the state...

Q&A: Daniel Reed Designer, The Cafeteria Studio
Sheffield-based Daniel specialises in design and typography, and his enthusiasm for all things print-related is such that outside of his day job he works on other projects and has created four new...

Star product: SAI DisplayGenie
A cost-effective POS and box design solution from US developer.

Me & my: Brandtjen & Kluge Omnifold 3000
Packaids is a print finishing company with a difference: it almost exclusively works with glue in some form or another on every job.

More connectivity should usher in a smarter era
An estimated 26 billion devices will be connected to the internet by 2020, according to technology analyst Gartner. These include ‘smart’ fridges, and thermostats, as well as devices things like...

Packaging sector calls for increased support for young talent
Packaging industry figures want the sector to do more to harness young talent in the UK.

Taopix takes on apprentice team
Photogift software developer Taopix has selected six apprentices, from a group of eleven young trainees, to go on an initial 12-month programme with the business.

Communisis plans capital reduction
Communisis is proposing a capital reduction so it can continue to pay dividends in the face of a ballooning pension deficit.