Control Print, the research study into digital print which was produced with Russell Warren Fisher, is being featured in the current issue (55) of Baseline Magazine and subsequent issues as well.

The world’s largest and most important exibition for the printing and media industry.

Friday

After a four year search for the furthest hotel from Dusseldorf, we arrived in the ghost town of Hann to be welcolmed by the largest electrical storm Germany has seen since 1944.
After aimless walking around the town and eating half a pig, we arrived back at the hotel to sample a selection of ghastly top shelf German liquors that Peter seemed to quite enjoy.
We then retired to our rooms where Peter enjoyed a good Nicolas Cage film and the rest of us slept.

Saturday

Early rise for dried bread and more meat and a journey with the most talented taxi driver who texted his friend for the whole 60 miles to the exhibition.
As we arrived early, we were treated to the opening Drupa theme tune - “one world, one drupa” - brilliant!
Had a demo on the new HP Indigo 7000 and very impressed. Looked at new booklet makers, folding and creasing machines but, for the rest of the show, nothing else really impressed.
A rotten lunch of more meat (unknown) and cabbage was made better by a large consumption of beer whilst sampling the musical delights of rather large men with big moustaches slapping each others’ thighs.

After quite a walk to old town (”its just round the corner”) passing some very old gothic buildings and a few rivers, we arrived to this fantastic party town.
We would explain what happened that evening but none of us can remember.

In Düsseldorf by the River Rhine

Some of Peter’s German fan club.

Not sure what to do with that whipped cream?

Clive promises he didn’t inhale.

Sunday

Back to the exhibition only to find we had to pay € 60 each for 4 hours entry (our flight was just after lunch). Rik then got trapped into a few demos of kit he wasn’t interested in and managed to waste the four hours completely.

On leaving we did stumble across the Stago stand and managed to make at least one purchase:

The Stago ESM 20 Heavy Duty Corner Rounder

UPDATE:

On returning to work, we received the following email:

Dear Mr. Hannen,

Unfortunately, Mr. Wilkens who stayed in room 211, destroyed his lampshade.

The lampshade was not anymore on the frame and Mr Wilkens forgot to inform the reception of this incident by this check out.

Therefore we have to buy a new lampshade and charge it to you. The amount would be € 25.00.

Please let us know which credit card should be charged with this amount.
Best wishes

André Hachem
assistant Manger

Nathan, of course, denies everything so we will never know.

It’s official - We have the most ‘Digital Office’ in the whole world.

Don’t believe us? A recent search for ‘digital office’ in the images section on google showed our office first out of 26,500,000 images.

Not bad hey! - even though it displays our original domain name.

http://images.google.com/images?hl=en&q=digital+office&btnG=Search+Images&gbv=2 

Our latest passes for Carsonifieds Future of Mobile event were blogged about by Daniel Appelquist of Vodafone - “Apart from all that, Carsonified just runs really great events. In particular, they seem to have an intuitive grasp of the user experience of the events. Everything down to the badges is meticulously designed with a professional sheen that nobody else seems to be able to manage. In the case of the badges, they are printed on both sides (how often are you at a conference and you realize the person you’re talking to has no idea who you are because your badge has turned itself around), they are clearly printed and color coded based on whether you’re a developer, designer, speaker, etc.. it’s just one of the many Carsonified touches that makes their events so pleasant. Great work!”.

http://www.torgo.com/blog/2007/11/future-of-conference-badges.html#comment-51968

Well, almost visit Ripe - they were in the same country!

Background: For the last few years, we’ve been printing the passes, brochures, posters and flyers for Carsonifieds Future of …. conferences. So far we’ve printed items for the Future of Web Apps (FOWA), Future of Web Design (FOWD) and Future of Online Advertising (FOOA) Conferences. Ryan, who owns Carsonified (www.carsonified.com) is a good friend and he also created DropSend.com (the web utility we use for client uploads). This year’s Future of Web Apps was the biggest yet and Kevin and Alex filmed their first ever Diggnation London there.
Diggnation, for those of you who have never seen it, is an internet show hosted by Kevin Rose and Alex Albrecht. From their website: “Diggnation is a weekly tech/web culture show based on the top digg.com social bookmarking news stories”. If you’ve never seen it, watch the episode from the FOWA in London to see what it’s all about. http://revision3.com/diggnation/2007-10-04London
Anyway, as you can see in the picture below they’re wearing the passes we printed for them. In geek circles, this is huge!
Yeah!

Source: Andrew Nesbitt
http://www.flickr.com/photos/nez/1482306151/in/set-72157602256643098