Past Projects & Stories

  • Outstanding Colour Choice For Students Portfolio

    Outstanding Colour Choice For Students Portfolio

    A really eye catching A4 sized portrait portfolio, with we think was for a university fashion & textile student.

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  • Custom made MG car document and vehicle folder

    Hartnack & Co Now Have A Licence For MG & Austin Healey Vehicle Document Folders

    Custom made classic car document holders and folders have been an itch we've been wanting to scratch since our inception and over the last year it's one that we're getting a great deal of enjoyment out of, particularly now we have the licence for MG and Austin Healey.

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  • christmas decoration keepsake box with personalised christmas decoration

    Christmas Gifts 2018 - Personalised Christmas Decoration Keepsake Box

    A simple yet beautiful and long lasting Christmas gift idea for a new born daughter or son that will continue for the next 16 years and will still remain precious for the rest of their lives.

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  • The Austin Healey Document and History Folders For Uncle Simon's Classic Car

    The Austin Healey Document and History Folders For Uncle Simon's Classic Car

    Custom made box and drawer with two folders for the history and documents of classic Austin Healey Mk II 3000 - Note the matching paint colours!

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  • photographer jess farmers a3 leather photography portfolio book

    Family Portrait Photographer, Jess Farmers' Leather Photography Portfolio

    We've been very lucky to have found Photographer Jess Farmer. This is the story behind her photography portfolio and why without her, you would not be reading this.

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  • Magazine Storage Box - The Week UK

    Magazine Storage Box - The Week UK

    I'm a collector of The Week magazine and I wanted a custom made box to keep all the years issues of the magazine in one special and archival safe box.

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  • A Full Colour Logo And The Simplified Version

    A Full Colour Logo And The Simplified Version

    When creating a metal die we can't use full colour artwork or grey scale (B&W) it has to be 100% black on a clear or white back ground. This sometimes means a simplified logo.

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  • Art collectors clamshell box with matching leather album

    Art Collectors Provenance Boxes

    Bespoke boxes and portfolio for Alan Klinkhoff Galleries in Montreal, Canada. Each of the branded boxes is to be given to an individual collector of a particular artist, to keep the relevant paper work of their collection together (basically a provenance keeper or folder)

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  • 3rd Anniversary Gift Idea - Leather Wedding Photo Album

    3rd Anniversary Gift Idea - Leather Wedding Photo Album

    Leather, for those that don't know, is the gift that you give for your 3rd wedding anniversary. And for those of you who have yet liberate their wedding photos of the memory stick given to you by your wedding photographer yet, then this is the ultimate in third wedding anniversary gifts!!

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  • Student Portfolios

    Student Portfolios

    These two off the shelf student portfolios both use exposed screw post mechanisms and are A3 in size.

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  • Treasure Every Moment Keepsake Box

    Treasure Every Moment Keepsake Box

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  • Matching Slipcase and Portfolio in Chobi

    Matching Slipcase and Portfolio in Chobi

    11" x 14" Hidden Screw Post Portfolio with matching Slipcase in Platinum Buckram with black foil stamped personalisation.

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  • Brown and Blue Portfolio Box For Virtuellestudio

    Brown and Blue Portfolio Box For Virtuellestudio

    Really eye catching brown and blue A3 half clamshell portfolio box for German design and visualisation company Virtuelles Studio GmbH.

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  • Custom Memory Box in Copper & Blue

    Custom Memory Box in Copper & Blue

    Custom made multi tier memory box in Moreton Blue book cloth and Copper buckram with Copper foil blocked inscription on the lid.

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  • Mr Sanad Saad Surgical Portfolio

    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.

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  • Custom made personalised recipe ring binder files

    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.

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  • H&Co Guide to Placing Prints in Portfolio

    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!

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  • H&Co Guide To Hinge Strips

    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.

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  • H&Co Guide to Student Portfolios

    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.

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  • Student Portfolio with Personalisation by H&Co

    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)

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