Danny Kirk has over thirty years experience in print. He learned as an apprentice, making up aluminium plates and cleaning the machines. It’s part of the reason he understands offset lithography inside and out.

For most of his career he’s specialised in high quality printing, including books for world-class galleries like White Cube, Lisson Gallery and the V&A. These are the most exacting clients in print. They know what quality is, and they have a well developed sense of a deadline too. Danny is adept at both.

In recent years Danny has explored the benefits of digital printing, which continues to revolutionise the quality and cost of short run projects.

Experience in litho and digital aside, Danny also has an intimate experience of finishing. He knows whether to use a brass or magnesium die for your foiling; why your project is best suited to PUR or OTTO binding; or when you should choose debossing rather than embossing.

A handful of print professionals can claim to have this kind of experience and skill. But Danny has something else.

Danny understands the preoccupations and concerns of Designers and Art Directors. The significance of kerning and trapping or of ensuring the correct reproduction of an image – and how colour can be affected by paper, ink density, or even humidity.

And he has a creative aspect that is very rare too. A way of problem solving that is as open and fluid as a designer’s. Danny’s happiest with a challenging project that requires ingenuity and skill. The kind of project that sends most printers running scared.

To top it all Danny is approachable. He’s very happy to explain any process to the limit of you or your clients’ understanding and interest.

Danny has refined his approach working with some of the world’s best. People like OK-RM, Made Thought, Esterson Associates, Stefi Orazi and Matt Willey all trust him with their work. That’s why he became known as the Choice of Designers™.

‘Danny Kirk brings his years of experience to your project: finding the right printer, transparent costing and personal print management’.
Simon Esterson, Esterson Associates

‘I’ve found a problem working with Danny over the last twenty years: every other printer disappoints me. He understands a designer’s perspective. He is knowledgeable, reachable, diligent and exacting. When things go wrong – which they sometimes do when you’re trying something new – Danny appears with enthusiasm and ideas’.
William Hall, William Hall Work

‘It's been a pleasure to work with Danny on every print job we have used him for – it always feels like a really collaborative process, with Danny suggesting alternative options or solutions to problems we would not necessarily have thought of. You know that Danny will always strive to deliver the highest quality end product for every project he is given’.
Zoë Bather, Studio 8