A Design Presence: Stock 1

For the stock I wanted to order some stock that was more bespoke than the stock in the library. 

I was told about Shepards London by people in the studio, they sell colour plan stock the same as GF Smith but cheaper. 

When I went on the website, the colour plan was available in 135gsm, and 270gsm, so there isn't as much choice as GF Smith, not even considering special embosses or textures. 

However I didn't need this for my stock and I felt that 135gsm is suitable for letterheads, cv's, envelopes etc, and that 270gsm duplexed would be thick enough for a business card. 

It helped that I had a colour plan book from GF Smith with me whilst I was looking at the colours, for obvious reasons you can't really see the exact colour on screen. As well as this I had other stock sample books which let me feel the weights of the paper. 

I selected Powder Green and Natural White, and ordered sheets in 135 and 270gsm.