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Tue, 21 Jan 2020 09:59:00 +0000

A new photographic exhibition which showcases Great British Racing Drivers (GBRD), with Epson UK announced as the exclusive print and technology partner.

Tschichold In The Rough

Steven Heller — Tue, 21 Jan 2020 05:06:52 +0000

Last week I previewed a splendid book by Prof. Patrick Rössler (Universität Erfurt) in Germany on 1920s-30s illustrated German magazines. Today I bring you another awe-inspiring history of the New Typography, Blicke in den Nachlass Jan Tschichold: Ein Jahrhundrettypograf! (Wallstein Verlag) by Stephanie Jacobs and Rössler. With an introduction by the biographer of Paul Renner, Christopher Burke, the book asks the question: Is Tschichold the “Typographer of the Century?”

Regrettably, you will have to be able to read German to find out the answer, but lack of fluency should not prohibit purchasing the book. A very satisfying bonus aside from the scholarship, are the generous reproductions from Rössler’s enviable personal archive of original sketches and paste-up mechanicals. It is always sobering to see that the great designers of the Modern era used the same processes as we did decades later (and before the computer).

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First female editor in 140 years

Mon, 20 Jan 2020 14:56:16 +0000

Weekly newspaper, The Basingstoke Gazette, has appointed its first female editor in 140 years.

Durst restructures textile division

Mon, 20 Jan 2020 11:13:20 +0000

Durst has restructured its industrial textile printing segment and put Dr. Stefan Kappaun in charge. As segment manager textile printing Kappaun has responsibility for the strategic direction in home textiles, clothing and accessories, and will act as the link to the large-format segment, which takes over soft signage and fabrics in the Durst portfolio.

Cartoon Network Hotel opens with bespoke graphics

Mon, 20 Jan 2020 11:12:14 +0000

Animation fans can now eat, sleep, play and swim surrounded by their favourite characters at the newly opened Cartoon Network Hotel in Pennsylvania, USA, where Graphik Masters worked with amusement park brand Dutch Wonderland to produce graphics for the walls and windows, both indoors and out.

New exhibitors for SDUK

Mon, 20 Jan 2020 11:11:16 +0000

The organisers of Sign and Digital UK (SDUK) have released names of first-time exhibitors for this year’s show, NEC, 28-30 April.

New date set for first Fespa UK/Vism awards and conference

Mon, 20 Jan 2020 09:56:14 +0000

Fespa UK Association and project management software company Vism have released details of the inaugural UK Graphic Awards and Thrive in Print conference. Originally slated for 8 and 9 September, the awards/conference combination will now run on Tuesday 15 September 2020 at Oulton Hall in Leeds.

Guns And Hate On MLK Day

Steven Heller — Mon, 20 Jan 2020 05:01:31 +0000

Extremist militias and white nationalist groups are converging on Richmond, Virginia’s statehouse today, Martin Luther King day, to take a stand for gun rights — “or, in the words of some, to fan the flames of a civil war,” The Washington Post reported on Saturday.

“I’ll be rolling into town early. I can’t give you my exact time for security reasons,” said Christian Yingling, head of the Pennsylvania Light Foot Militia and a leader at the “Unite the Right” rally in Charlottesville in 2017.

President Trump has unfortunately egged them on, tweeting on Friday: “Your 2nd Amendment is under very serious attack in the Great Commonwealth of Virginia. That’s what happens when you vote for Democrats, they will take your guns away. Republicans will win Virginia in 2020. Thank you Dems!”

Pro-gun-rights rallies like the Virginia Citizens Defense League’s annual demonstration at the Capitol building today typically draws just a few hundred gun enthusiasts. “This year, however, thousands of gun activists are expected to turn out,” states the Washington Post. With strict gun restrictions in the offing in Virginia, pro-gun activists have identified the state as a rallying point for the fight against what they see as a national erosion of their liberty. Of course, they have First Amendment right to peacefully protest for or against legislation — with emphasis on peaceful.

However, as the Post adds, “VCDL president Philip Van Cleave said he’s heard from groups around the country that plan to send members to Virginia, including the Nevada-based, far-right Oath Keepers, which has promised to organize and train armed posses and militia.”

Guns are the gateway drug for racism and nationalism, and every time a rally of this kind is announced explicitly racist and putative defenders of the Constitution, alarmingly hear the call. “Extremist groups have blanketed social media and online forums with ominous messages and hinted at potential violence.”

the latest of these hate groups to surface, The Base, supports a race war against minorities and the establishing of white ethno-states. “The group’s name is the English translation of al Qaeda,” reports NBC News. Their logo is a derivation of a Nazi era symbol called the Wolfsangel.

“[W]hile the ideologies of a white supremacist group such as The Base and a jihadist organization such as al Qaeda appear disparate, their shared desire for bloodshed only incites their followers,” continues NBC’s report.

According to NPR “Police have arrested three men in northern Georgia who are suspected of belonging to a violent white supremacist group called The Base, saying that they were plotting to commit murder and that they belonged to a criminal street gang.”

Another group on the move is the loosely knit brotherhood of hate known as the Atomwaffen Division. Founded in 2015, Atomwaffen members have been implicated in five homicides and several bomb plots and whose colors were prominently displayed at the at the “Unite the Right” rally in Charlottesville. They are currently the subject of an intensifying national investigation by the FBI. Yet another new group is showing their colors too: Feuerkreig Division embraces violence as a solution to “fix” the current political and cultural system. The group criticizes and demeans other white supremacist movements, like the alt-right, for being too focused on public perception and unsuccessful in the movement’s ability to create real societal change with their tactics. Feuerkrieg Division is heavily influenced by Atomwaffen Division.

Encouraged by administration policy these groups have been embolden. That this gathering takes place every MLK Day shows the unfortunate divide in this country too.

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FUJIFILM Holdings named on “CDP A List” for climate change.

Mon, 20 Jan 2020 04:00:00 +0000

Healing through bookbinding

Fri, 17 Jan 2020 12:56:33 +0000

The UK’s second oldest occupational charity, The Printing Charity, works tirelessly to support the printing, publishing, packaging and graphic arts sectors.

Cereal Killer Package Design

Steven Heller — Fri, 17 Jan 2020 05:28:53 +0000

I wouldn’t blame you if you mistook the artifacts below for works of art. In fact, they would fit very well into a Chelsea gallery amid the contemporary artists now working with typography. A few of them also suggest concrete poetry.

But no. These are progressive printing proofs for Kellogg’s products (c. 1930s-1950s). Kellogg’s has come a long way since the days when Dr. John Harvey Kellogg, a devout Seventh-day Adventist until mid-life, was the chief medical officer of the Battle Creek Sanitarium was operated based on the church’s health principles. Along with his brother W. K. Kellogg invented the famous food as a curative. Later the two siblings squabbled about the product. (Check out “The Kelloggs: The Battling Brothers of Battle Creek” and T.C. Boyle’s “The Road to Wellville” for more.)

Dr. Kellogg was a fervent vegetarian, body purist and reportedly remained celibate during his own four-decade marriage. He devoted his energies to anything in order to cure his patients’ ills, experimenting with countless treatments and inventing dozens of his own. Some of his ideas, particularly on nutrition and exercise, were ahead of their time. In 1906 W.K. Kellogg opened the “Battle Creek Toasted Corn Flake Company” with John they created the initial batch of Kellogg’s^® Corn Flakes^® and brought to life W.K.’s vision for great-tasting, better-for-you breakfast foods.

Back to the packages: What the Russian children and Alamo motifs have to do with the cereal is unclear. But cereal packages were not just containers but carnivals (prizes were doled out) and family entertainments, something to read and take one’s mind off the pressures of the world and digestive tract.

(Thanks to Jeff Roth, archivist extraordinaire.)

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Print employee suffers finger amputations

Thu, 16 Jan 2020 14:51:28 +0000

A Newton Abbot printing company has been fined after its employee had to have fingers amputated as a result of serious injuries sustained while operating a machine in the workplace.

British Sign Awards 2020 to run under independent banner

Thu, 16 Jan 2020 08:44:53 +0000

The British Sign Awards will this year run under an independent banner - previously they have run under the auspices of ISA UK (formerly BSGA), which earlier this month announced it would be launching a new awards scheme.

Elvis Chwast Is In The Building

Steven Heller — Thu, 16 Jan 2020 05:00:32 +0000

This gets my vote for the King of Elvis books. Just when you think Mr. Pelvis has been forgotten, he emerges in this stunningly entertaining illustrated biography by Seymour Chwast and Steven Brower. Chwast’s drawings and visual narratives bring new life to the old King. I asked Chwast about his memories, past, present and future, of who my generation used to call Elvis Pretzel. Why is Elvis so important to you?
I am intrigued by extraordinary celebrity: Elvis, the Beatles, Sinatra. I ask myself if my depiction and study of Elvis would explain it all.

What did you base your depictions of Elvis on?
Hundreds of photos of a very photogenic performer.

Is this book aimed at Elvis fans or Elvis neophytes?
New and old fans appreciate his talent, persona and incredibly good looks.

What was the most surprising thing that you learned about Elvis?
I was surprised to find that he was a normal, nice guy, unfortunately done in by fame. A southerner who believed in equality.

Do you believe Elvis is still alive?
Yes, in my book.

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Updated:Notice of Fujifilm application software used with “macOS 10.15.2”

Thu, 16 Jan 2020 05:00:00 +0000

Offering a double denim solution

Wed, 15 Jan 2020 15:56:25 +0000

A London-based craft jeans maker has turned to print to create jean labels with a unique and sustainable twist.

Canon partners with OneVision to up productivity of Colorado and Arizona printers

Wed, 15 Jan 2020 11:08:07 +0000

Canon Production Printing has partnered with pre-press software specialist OneVision to provide improved operational efficiencies for PSPs using the Colorado roll-to-roll and Arizona flatbed printers.

Antalis extends carbon offsetting scheme to all

Wed, 15 Jan 2020 11:03:03 +0000

Antalis UK has announced that all materials within its papers, packaging and visual communications ranges can now be carbon offset.

Ricoh Europe’s Tim Taylor moves to new global post

Wed, 15 Jan 2020 10:55:46 +0000

Ricoh Europe has appointed a new director, Clive Stringer, for continuous feed and high end software, commercial and industrial printing group, replacing Tim Taylor who has been promoted to the new global post of director, inkjet production solutions. From 1 April Taylor will be part of the global high productivity solutions centre (HPSC), where he will be responsible for the preparation and global launch of high-speed inkjet solutions for the graphic arts market.

New wrap films from Spandex

Wed, 15 Jan 2020 10:55:21 +0000

Spandex is introducing the new Avery Dennison Supreme Wrapping Film/Spandex GP Edition - a range of ten metallic colours developed by Avery for Spandex.

There Will Never Be Another 2020 in Our Lifetime

Steven Heller — Wed, 15 Jan 2020 05:50:00 +0000

. . . Or ever, for that matter. But on a lighter note. . .

Poul Lange has been pondering the new decade:

“Everyone, who has been on Facebook for a while, has probably received one of those challenges: ‘Show one record cover that has been important to you every day for 2 weeks’, ‘Share a daily black/white photo you took for 10 days, no comments allowed,’ ‘Every day nominate a friend to do the same’. I’m not sure why, but these demands have always rubbed me the wrong way. Why just record covers? Why am I not allowed to comment? Why didn’t anybody nominate me?

“So sometimes I make my own little challenges, and the only person I nominate is myself. This change of decades prompted me to do that.

“Somehow this milestone seems awfully significant—not sure exactly why—maybe the cool sound of twenty-twenty, maybe the end of this century’s teenage years, maybe the looming political events of the coming year. Anyway, I decided to challenge myself to make a 2020 New Year’s card every day for a week.”

“For full disclosure I’ll have to admit that this was not only a challenge to my artistic discipline, it was also the last major procrastination trick of this decade: As one of the rules I set for myself, all the materials for the collages had to be found on my work table. You can imagine what a mess it was (photo enclosed), but the rule was easy to follow and gave me an extra week before my big clean-up.”

And I’ve decided in the spirit of a new beginning — and hope for a better tomorrow — to publish Lange’s output now that 2020 is well underway. It gives me a certain inexplicable joy to have his work on The Daily Heller.

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AIGA Announces New Executive Director

Print staff — Tue, 14 Jan 2020 18:19:14 +0000

The search—described by AIGA as “exhaustive” and taking more than a year—is over.

AIGA announced today that the organization has landed a new executive director: Bennie F. Johnson.

Johnson comes to the role following his most recent position as chief strategy officer of the Council of Better Business Bureaus—notable here for its chapter-based structure—where he oversaw strategic partnerships with the likes of Google, the FTC and Coca-Cola, and managed an enterprise-wide restructuring. Prior to that role, he served as chief global marketing/global business development officer of the HR Certification Institute, advisor to Kaleo Software, and director of marketing at other organizations.

According to AIGA, Johnson first connected with design through professor Robert Reed at Yale, where he earned his bachelor’s degree before pursuing his master’s in strategic communications at Columbia.

As he said in the official announcement, “I have been passionate about design as a part of innovation and creativity my entire life. … I’m drawn to organizations where I can play an active role leading and creating new modes of business and enterprise to inspire stronger visions for the future. Since AIGA is entering a new decade of growth, I am thrilled to join this organization where my educational background, professional experience and personal passions merge and align with the organization’s needs and vision.”

Based in Washington DC, Johnson also serves as chairman of the advisory board of the Smithsonian’s Anacostia Community Museum.

Alongside the AIGA board of directors, the firm Nonprofit HR assisted in the search for a new executive director, which began after Julie Anixter left the role in the summer of 2018. Anixter officially joined the AIGA in January 2016, following the departure of Richard Grefé, who served at the helm for two decades.

PRINT will be following up with more coverage soon. Stay tuned.

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Print Show the perfect platform for Premier Paper

Tue, 14 Jan 2020 15:57:41 +0000

Premier Paper Group has signed up to exhibit at its sixth consecutive Print Show, opting for two stands at the 2020 event as it seeks to maximise its presence at the NEC.

Branded Wraps delivers ceiling wrap

Tue, 14 Jan 2020 11:07:09 +0000

Canadian company Branded Wraps has completed several projects for the Sixteen Mile Sports Complex in Oakville, Ontario, including this ceiling graphic.

Illustrated Magazines, The Genius Thereof

Steven Heller — Tue, 14 Jan 2020 05:52:04 +0000

Picture Magazines of the Times (Bildermaga Zin Der Zeit) (Gebr. Mann Verlag, Berlin) by Patrick Rössler is just what the doctor ordered today. In the 1920s, “The illustrated Magazine” was planned to be among the celebrated series of Bauhaus Books (Bauhausbücher). Edited by Moholy Nagy it was to be a “critical inventory” of contemporary journals and their production, Joost Schmidt, a typography master at the school was also involved with the project but the work was never completed. Rössler, a design historian who has three other book on the Bauhaus published this 100th anniversary year, “attempts to outline the original project” and based on Moholy Nagy’s 1925 progressive essay, the “Guidelines for a Synthetic Magazine” is reevaluated by Rössler in this current book.

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Graphtec GB brings out CE7000 series cutting plotters

Mon, 13 Jan 2020 13:48:39 +0000

Graphtec GB has replaced its CE6000 cutting plotter with the CE7000 series that has larger size options.

Xaar extends test service

Mon, 13 Jan 2020 13:46:57 +0000

Xaar has launched its five-step service for the evaluation of fluids for use in new product development and advanced manufacturing applications.

New member services introduced by Fespa UK

Mon, 13 Jan 2020 09:12:54 +0000

Fespa UK Association is offering a specialist R&D grant search and application service in light of UK government agencies and the EU’s Horizon 2020 Programme having made millions of pounds available to UK businesses.

Spanish Fascists Were As Bad As Any Fascists

Steven Heller — Mon, 13 Jan 2020 05:27:31 +0000

On July 18, 1936, Francisco Franco announced a military rebellion against the Spanish republic. After landing in Spain, Franco and his army marched toward Madrid. He became head of the rebel Nationalist government on October 1 but did not gain complete control of the country for more than three years. Spain’s fascists were as repressive as any fascists, only they lasted longer in power.

During its civil war, Spain’s Falange Española Tradicionalista y de las Juntas de Ofensiva Nacional Sindicalista, or Falangism, founded by José Antonio Primo de Rivera, was a fascist ideology, which, along with the Carlist nationalist party, merged into the Juntas de Ofensiva Nacional-Sindicalista (J.O.N.S) and adopted the yoke and arrows symbol. It was Spain’s equivalent of Germany’s swastika. It had geometrical simplicity, warlike symbolism and an historical backstory, representing the union of the five kingdoms of Castile, Leon, Aragon, Granada and Navarre, and both national unity and the glories of the period of Ferdinand and Isabella. The party and later the government was headed by Francisco Franco, who nonetheless diluted the radical elements of emerging European fascism and forged an authoritarian ideology. Although ties existed between Hitler’s Nazis and Mussolini’s Fascists, Franco’s rule (from 1936 to 1975, the longest 20th century fascist regime) avoided the same fate—he kept out of World War II and was not a target of the Allies.

Yet like all totalitarian regimes, Franco’s government used propaganda weapons on its people. Posters, books and magazines were visible to young and old, literate and illiterate. HAZ, the Sindicato Español Universitario (SEU) magazine, is poorly printed in black and blue (the color of the original Falangist shirt) but it contains many of the symbols that continued to brand Franco’s regime until the end. De Rivera’s sister (pictured on a page below) was an icon of the movement. Years after the dictator’s death in 1975, the law of October 2007 mandated removal of all remaining symbols from public buildings, with some exceptions for works of particular religious or artistic significance.

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DCS brings in new president and CEO

Sun, 12 Jan 2020 10:33:41 +0000

US-based UV LED printer specialist Direct Color Systems (DCS) has appointed a new president and CEO in the form of Tom Kaplinksi.

Willem Sandberg’s Maverick Typography

Steven Heller — Fri, 10 Jan 2020 05:13:54 +0000

Willem Sandberg (1897-1984) was a typographic maverick until the day he died. Much of his most signature work were catalogues and posters, often designed in the evenings and weekends. Sandberg was the director of Amsterdam’s Stedelijk Museum from 1945 to 1962, and his association with the local state printer “produced an identity that transformed the museum into one of Europe’s first truly modern galleries,” noted Simon Garfield in The Guardian newspaper. He rejected “the traditional dark and hushed rooms and creating something bright and accessible, a place of social interaction.” And this held for the graphic design that for two decades typified the institution.

“He was a late starter and produced the majority of his work in his late forties,” wrote Petr Bil’ak Starting in 1945, when he became the director of the Stedelijk museum, until 1962 Sandberg designed almost all the printed matter for the museum (over 250 catalogues and 270 posters). Additionally, he was an active member of countless institutions, committees and advisory bodies – unusual for a director with executive and administrative duties. Sandberg transformed the Stedelijk physically as well as conceptually, modernized its spaces, initiated construction of a new wing, expanded the collection and introduced many new ideas into the often stuffy world of museums.

Sandberg directed exhibitions of American and European artists, including Picasso and Pollock, and made sure that Kandinsky, Mondrian and Schwitters were included in the collection. “He spoke of how he was primarily interested in an artist’s character; only through character could he determine whether they would make great things in the future or retreat into repetition. His directorial skills were recognised internationally. After retirement from the Stedelijk, Sandberg spent several years in the mid-60s establishing the Israel Museum in Jerusalem, and he was on the design committee for the Pompidou Centre in Paris when it appointed architects Richard Rodgers, Renzo Piano and Gianfranco Franchini in 1971. The “inside-out” exhilaration of the building may have echoed in Sandberg’s head: some years earlier he had commissioned a long, high external ramp to run along the glass windows of the Stedelijk, so that those who believed they had no interest in the exhibition inside could take a peek nonetheless, and without paying.

His museum work would be career defining enough, but his typography and lettering, unique color combinations and expressionist design makes him one of the leading 20th century masters of art type.

Catalog cover, 1973.

Piet Zwart 80, 1965.

Cover for the Journal Musées Néerlandais, 1963.

Experimenta Typografica 11, 1956.

Cover for the catalogue de la Biblioteque due Stedelijk, 1957.

Expérimenta Typografica 11, 1956.

Texte Amendé “NU 1”, 1959.

La Nouvelle Aile du Stedelijk, 1954.

Texte et illustration de “NU 2,” 1968.

Symbols for le Musée d’Isreal a Jérussalem, 1964.

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Stunt Typography

Steven Heller — Thu, 09 Jan 2020 05:48:25 +0000

Publishing today. From Louise Fili’s and The Daily Heller’s latest book, Vintage Graphic Design (Allworth Press) comes this cautionary note: “Type well used is invisible as type, just as the perfect talking voice is the unnoticed vehicle for the transmission of words, ideas,” wrote type expert Beatrice Ward in the chapter “Printing Should Be Invisible” in her book The Crystal Goblet: Sixteen Essays on Typography (The World Publishing Company, 1956). . . “I always suspect the typographic enthusiast who takes printed page from a book and frames it to hang on the wall, for I believe that in order to gratify a sensory delight he has mutilated something infinitely more important.” Speaking about book typography, she was correct that outrageous type display is anathema to “good design” by drawing attention to itself rather than the word. “Get attention as you will by your headline,” she admonished, adding “. . . your wildest ingenuity can stop people from reading a really interesting text.”

Ward was directly addressing the dangers of typographic experimentation that originated in the early twentieth century yet condemns the marriage of old and new as an act of typographic hubris. “Printing [meaning typography] demands a humility of the mind,” she warned, “for the lack of which many of the fine arts are even now floundering in self-conscious and maudlin experiments. There is nothing simple or dull in achieving the transparent page. Vulgar ostentation is twice as easy as discipline.” Referring to the “stunt typographer,” Ward implies that while there is a place for “ugly” typography, beauty is the virtue of the wise.

To the contrary, engaging typography comprised of eccentric typeface designs need not always transparent, or represented by Ward’s metaphoric crystal goblet. Often the purpose of type is to stop the eye and excite the senses. Today this prevails more than ever. Since it seems that typographic fashions change more rapidly than ever, au currant or passé are no longer useful descriptions. Typefaces and typographic ornament from historical periods – intricate or austere produced in wood or metal – are impressive when used well. Vintage luster adds a charm and personality that cannot always be found in austere modern faces.

We savor type history – especially of the eclectic cum idiosyncratic kind and the artifacts on which these historical typefaces are printed – as we do, then you will doubtless derive joy from the letters and ornaments culled from the rare and forgotten sources we have reproduced herein.

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Fujifilm start phase II clinical trial of T-817MA in europe for treatment of alzheimer disease.

Wed, 25 Dec 2019 04:00:00 +0000

Updated:Notification of Fujifilm camera remote with “iOS13” Smartphones.

Fri, 20 Dec 2019 04:00:00 +0000

Fujifilm to acquire Hitachi’s diagnostic imaging-related business to accelerate growth of its healthcare business

Wed, 18 Dec 2019 06:00:00 +0000

IMMEDIATE MEDIA CO ANNOUNCE DAN CONSTANDA AS COO & CFO

Ashleigh Grady — Tue, 10 Dec 2019 10:58:09 +0000

Immediate Media Co, the special interest content and platform company, have announced the appointment of Dan Constanda in the dual role of Chief Operating Officer (COO) and Chief Finance Officer (CFO). Reporting to Immediate CEO Tom Bureau, Constanda will lead Immediate’s Finance, Legal, Subscriptions, Advertising, Contract & Customer and Production departments.

Constanda, who will take-up the role in January 2020, replaces Kevin Langford who after 21 years with BBC Worldwide and subsequently Immediate has decided to step-back from the business to focus on new challenges. As an instrumental figure in Immediate’s success over the last eight years, Langford will continue in an advisory role around key projects for the Immediate board.

With 25 years’ experience in senior financial and strategic positions in a variety of large media organisations, Constanda joins Immediate from Vice Media, where he held the role of International CFO with responsibility for driving business performance across all international territories.

Prior to Vice, Constanda was SVP and COO of CNN International, where he helped to grow CNN’s global revenues through performance marketing, traffic partnerships and new product development, while driving the performance of multiple commercial teams including Business Development, Marketing, Strategic Planning, Research, Strategy, and Ad Operations. Dan has also held senior finance and leadership roles at Sony Music Entertainment, AOL, private equity firm The Gores Group and Boston Consulting Group.

Commenting on his appointment, Dan Constanda, says: “I am looking forward to joining Immediate at this exciting time in their development as they continue to implement their transformational growth strategy.”

Tom Bureau, Immediate CEO, adds: “I am delighted to welcome Dan to Immediate. Dan brings a wealth of experience in running scaled finance and operations teams and a strategic perspective to business and corporate development which will help maintain and accelerate our growth. I would also like to thank our outgoing CFO, Kevin Langford, for the significant role he has played in the success of Immediate over the last eight years and wish him all the best for the future.”

FUJIFILM Toyama Chemical announces completion of Japan's first manufacturing facility for liposome formulation capable of commercial production.

Mon, 09 Dec 2019 01:30:00 +0000

IMMEDIATE MEDIA ANNOUNCES SWITCH TO PAPER WRAP FOR MONTHLY SUBSCRIPTION COPIES FROM JANUARY 2020

Ashleigh Grady — Fri, 06 Dec 2019 16:37:22 +0000

Immediate Media Co, the special interest content and platform company, has today announced that the majority of their monthly subscription titles will be posted in paper wrap from January 2020, a reduction of more than 7.7 million pieces of plastic, equating to a saving of around 43.3 tonnes of plastic a year.

From December, many of Immediate’s Bristol produced titles, including BBC History magazine, BBC Science Focus, Gardens Illustrated and Cycling Plus, will switch from recyclable polywrap to paperwrap. In January, Immediate’s craft portfolio, including Mollie Makes, and food portfolio, including BBC Good Food the UK’s biggest food magazine, will also move to paper wrap.

The switch means that over 520,000 Immediate subscribers copies a month will now by mailed in paper wrap, following adoption of a paper solution earlier in the year by Immediate published BBC Wildlife magazine, BBC Countryfile magazine and BBC Gardeners’ World magazine.

Immediate’s Production team has worked with printers Walstead UK, William Gibbons, mailing and fulfilment specialist WestColour and Mail & Marketing Solutions (MAMS) to deliver a sustainable solution, using FSC-certified paper which is fully recyclable in UK kerbside collections.

Andy Marshall, Immediate Managing Director, with responsibility for the company’s focus on sustainability, says: “I’m delighted that we’ve been able to find a sustainable option for mailing our monthly titles, including two of the biggest monthly subscription titles in the UK – BBC Gardeners’ World magazine and BBC Good Food. A completely sustainable solution has always been our preferred option, which not only helps meet our environmental goals but also provides our readers with an easily recyclable product. The move to paperwrap for our monthly titles is an important part of Immediate’s strategy to adopt more sustainable practices across our whole business.”

Updated:Notice of Fujifilm application software used with “macOS 10.15 (Catalina)”

Thu, 05 Dec 2019 05:00:00 +0000

Fujifilm establishes the Bio Science & Engineering Laboratories U.S.A. to start full-scale translational research for biotherapeutics in the United States.

Thu, 05 Dec 2019 04:00:00 +0000

Fujifilm launches FUJIFILM PROJECTOR Z5000 WHITE.

Mon, 02 Dec 2019 08:00:00 +0000

Updated:Fujifilm to release firmware update for the FUJIFILM X-T3

Tue, 26 Nov 2019 05:00:00 +0000

IMMEDIATE MEDIA CO CELEBRATES DOUBLE WIN AT BRITISH SOCIETY OF MAGAZINE EDITORS AWARDS 2019

Dominic Lobley — Thu, 21 Nov 2019 12:22:41 +0000

Immediate Media Co, the special interest content and platform company, celebrated two wins at the British Society of Magazine Editors (BSME) Awards 2019, at the Sheraton Grand London Park Lane Hotel on Tuesday 19 November.

Dan Bennett, editor of BBC Science Focus magazine, was named the Science, Technology & Environment Editor of the Year. The judges’ described Dan as “brave, modern, innovative and forward thinking, making big decisions that delivered on all fronts.”

Andrea Turton, editor of children’s title Hey Duggee, picked up the Youth Editor of the Year award, in a category which also featured four other Immediate editors on the shortlist. The judges’ praised Andrea, saying: “This editor has completely revolutionised the title which works for both the young readers and their parents.”

The annual BSME Awards bring together the UK’s leading editors, publishers, editorial and advertising team members to honour the best in British magazines.

FUJIFILM Toyama Chemical enters agreement with Appili Therapeutics regard to assigning rights for the development and marketing of T-2307, a candidate compound for the treatment of fungal diseases.

Thu, 21 Nov 2019 09:00:00 +0000

Fujifilm starts a U.S. Phase I clinical trial of anti-cancer agent “FF-10850” on advanced solid tumors.

Mon, 18 Nov 2019 04:00:00 +0000

Fujifilm announces expansion of its biopharmaceutical contract development and manufacturing business.

Thu, 14 Nov 2019 04:00:00 +0000

Fujifilm launches “FUJINON UA107×8.4BESM AF”

Wed, 13 Nov 2019 04:00:00 +0000

Fujifilm launches “FUJINON UA125×8BESM”

Wed, 13 Nov 2019 04:00:00 +0000

FY2020/3 2nd Quarter Financial Results of FUJIFILM Holdings posted on the FUJIFILM Holdings website

Tue, 12 Nov 2019 06:30:00 +0000

Fujifilm to own 100% of Fuji Xerox

Tue, 05 Nov 2019 06:00:00 +0000