your Bold ideas.
Beautifully produced.
Print, packaging, and direct mail SOLUTIONS with creativity at its core.
HERE’S How I can help you…
Pitch with confidence
Propose print concepts with confidence knowing they can be delivered.
Print production innovation
Supporting the creative process with product, material, and colour solutions and a can-do attitude to bring creative thinking to life. Clued into discovery of new materials or technologies.
Campaign and Event Print Production Management
Ensuring quality and cost-effectiveness throughout the print process while maintaining a reliable and timely supply of materials and finished products.
PRINT SURGERIES
Advising and problems solving, whilst ups killing your team on print processes and being a helpful sounding board for ideas.
GLOBAL Sourcing
Off-Island sourcing and contracting to produce high quality printed outcomes for here or overseas.
Production leadership
Instructing suppliers and across teams and locations to align technical direction for consistency across continents.
Quality Control
Keeping brand and production values at the heart of everything I do. Writing accurate specifications to find the right supplier for the right project. Colour testing for rebrands or new formats, proofing of all production materials.
Cost UnderstandinG
Providing a true cost understanding for concepts and budgets through to final production and delivery so clients aren’t hit with any surprises.
Let’s create something REAL together
Who?
I’m Neil Viccars, a Print Production Specialist with over 30 years’ experience across all types of print, packaging, and direct mail for global brands delivering to the highest standard of quality and creativity.
Physical, tangible reflections of a brand are becoming ever more popular as the online world gets bombarded by poor AI output. People crave real connection. Print production is back in a big way and a lot of organisations don’t have a specialist who can bring ideas to life.
Are you unsure of the art of the possible when it comes to pitching innovative print ideas so hold back?
Do you need someone to take responsibility for quality, clarity and delivery of print projects?
Great WORK
Boots
at Christmas
I managed the printed collateral at Boots the Chemists for several years. The Christmas catalogue is a key moment in the marketing calendar and sets customer anticipation for the period. This was a year-round project with planning for the next year starting at the previous year’s launch into stores.
My role was to influence and execute against all stages of the process:
Continuous innovation
Finding savings with new materials or technology.
Artwork
Oversaw all artwork and image creation, building with the correct colour profiles to match the printed and material outputs, proofing and colour testing.
Sourcing and vendor management
Timely sourcing of production and material vendors to deliver the campaign to schedule, to the best quality and to the right price.
Production
Signing off for colour on the printing press, achieving brand and colour consistency across all production methods. Timely delivery to the right distribution hubs.
Land Rover
Evoque Launch
As a print specialist for almost 10 years at Jaguar Land Rover my key objectives were to print and ship brochures for all vehicles across the world, using manufacturers on different continents and ensuring absolute colour and brand consistency across all products.
My role for the Range Rover Evoque launch:
Luxury brand print quality
A global new luxury vehicle launch relied on the highest quality of printed materials at every customer touchpoint.
Confidentiality was critical
Proofing of imagery and print trials for new paint colours ahead of the announcement.
Launch event moment
Creating materials last minute to be shipped to Paris for a James Bond themed event, selecting the right vendors and arranging urgent couriers to ensure everything went off without a hitch.
Global roll out
Instructing global print suppliers on the technical execution of new colourways.
R&A
The Rules of Golf
This was an extremely high profile and important project for the global golf fraternity.
Skills flexed:
Client education
The challenges were dealing with a client (Committee of the Royal and Ancient Golf Club at St Andrews) who had no regular interaction with creative or print processes but very exacting standards.
Innovation
We had to find innovative print solutions to produce the colour-work in volume, liaise with the US PGA to ensure consistency of timing and quality.
Cost control with suppliers
Ran cost analysis concluding that delivery from suppliers in Australia would provide better value and timings than printing in the UK and shipping there.
Fancy a brew?
Whether you have a question, an idea, or just want to chat about printed stuff over a cuppa, feel free to get in touch - I’m here to help:
neil@NVPRINTGSY.com
07911 726982
