Past Projects & Stories

Mr Sanad Saad Surgical Portfolio

Beautiful, personlised A4 leather surgical portfolio with a 6cm ring binder mechanism that will fit up to 150 high quality page protectors.

Custom Made Recipe Binders

When we went to a local cookery school. We got a whole lot of wonderful recipes printed out for us. We wanted to put them in organised folder and binder (not a book). We also wanted the covers personalised. These recipe binders are what we came up with.

Our guide to placing prints into your portfolio book

Laying out pages for printing requires a bit of pre-planning particularly if they are being placed directly into your portfolio. 
Here is a quick guide to ensure everything works just the way it needs it, to ensure calamity is kept to a minimum!

Our Guide to Using File Strips or 'Hinge Strips'

Hinge strips can be the perfect solution for attaching to photographic prints into portfolio books. The question is how to do it without botching the whole thing up, leaving you with a ruined print and a wasted adhesive strip.
Here's our guide on how to do it correctly.

Our Guide To Student Portfolios

Some advice and guidance to photography, design or textile students on the world of portfolio books and boxes where the word 'Presentation' is key. Questions like, what type of portfolio are available with what binding are answered, as well as what can and can't be achieved when having your book or box personalised.

Free Personalisation For All Students...

Our current deal for this 2017/18 academic year is Free Personalisation (blind bebossing) on any size portfolio of your choice, saving you £45.00!
This is exclusive to all students and starts on November 1st 2017 and is valid until January 31st 2018. Foiling is £10 extra (offer does not extend to full colour UV printing)

Baby’s Scrapbook Album - converting cotton fabric into book cloth

This bespoke handmade baby's scrapbook adds an extra touch of personality with the handpicked fabric that our customer provided from her local haberdasher. The book matched the curtains and lampshade in her sons nursery.

To see more examples of babies keepsake holders and albums please click here

Medical Portfolio Buying Advice for H&Co Medical Portfolios

In this blog we have set out the various Medical and Surgical portfolio options that we offer. 

Generally sized to accommodate A4 page protectors and tabbed dividers, the 5cm binding mechanism will fit 100 page protectors with 100 sheets of 110gsm paper inside. We can make portfolios with mechanisms up to 10 cm.

We've Moved! (Again!.)

This is something we should celebrate surely? It signifies progress and growth and 'aren't- we-doing-well!' The thing is we physically had to move the damn Guillotine 4 times in as many years.

A3 Graphic Design Portfolio For Jasmine Rutter

Plate Grey bookcloth on the outer Cover and Carew Yellow bookcloth for the portfolio's inner cover and spine.

Beautiful Charcoal and Purple Presentation Portfolio

A good idea was using Buckram book cloth as the outer cover for her portfolio as it gives it that more hard wearing cover and therefore a longer life.

A3 Leather Flip Over Album For Typographer Anthony Hos

A3 personalised leather flip over presentation portfolio is a portrait orientated portfolio that opens from the bottom to the top.

Drawer Box and Leather Album - Keepsake Box and Album to Keep Everything after Finishing a Major Project or Restoration

The album is made from 3.5mm thick, top grain, veg tanned Italian leather with a screw post filing mechanism.   

Bespoke Family History Leather Album

Very early on in H&Co’s history, we were asked to make a bespoke album and slipcase. It was to be used as a family history album, but it’s the reason behind the request which I think is rather special and beautiful.

A Gift From A Parent To A Child - This is Your Life Leather Scrapbook

The solander (or archive) box is covered in Pewter and Pearl buckram cloth and has been blind embossed on the cover. The album is made from our 3.5mm Italian veg tanned leather  and has also been blind debossed on the cover.

Clamshell Portfolio Box For Andrews University Architecture Student

He ordered an 11x17 drop back box in Warwick blue and Solo Orange. His cleverly designed and stylish logo is blind embossed on the front cover of the box.

A4 Company Presentation Portfolio For Dixon and Dixon Joinery

Making use of a hardwearing book cloth like buckram will ensure that only will their company portfolio survive some rigorous handling, but will also stay looking very presentable.

Photography Portfolios For University of Central Lancashire Photography Students

In the last week, H&Co have had the pleasure of producing portfolios for four UCLAN photography students (University of Central Lancashire).

The Gift of an A4 Presentation Portfolio From Dad To Student Daughter

He choose black buckram for the portfolios cover and then Eden bookcloth for the inner cover, plaque and spine - very effective

Photographer Tom Barnes Leather Presentation Portfolio

This is a custom leather photography portfolio that we did for portrait photographer Tom Barnes. Tom supplied his own leather (well not "his" leather, that would be a bit macabre. He sourced it himself). It was crazy cow from AA Crack, which is a chrome tanned leather, dyed and then surface dyed and then waxed, which gives it a really rustic appearance.