Showing posts with label Letterpress. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Letterpress. Show all posts
Work in progress: Keep on running letterpress and silkscreen print
Here is a sneak peek of my current project combining letterpress, digital design and silkscreen printing, this is at the pre-silkscreen stage of the process.
Long Live The Art School- The book
The book (click for online edition) celebrates the opening of the original Epsom School of Art by Lord Rosebery in 1898. The book features the events on the course over the past year, including workshops, visiting speakers, exhibitions, publications and the Print Area which I run. Long Live There are essays on the subject of the Art School from guest writers, artists, lecturers and designers including Adrian Shaughnessy, Andy Altman (Why Not Associates), Ken Garland, Martin O'Neill and Vaughan Oliver.
The book also acts as a catalogue of graduate work from the course and is supported by the exhibition of graduate work at The Gallery on Redchurch Street, London. I worked with the curatorial team to design and hang the exhibition, my main role being to curate a salon hang of 55 A3 frames, each one representing a graduate.
The website designed and built by Aaron Nicholls includes a digital version of the salon hang which links you to the graduates portfolios when you roll-over.
The book features a number of my own prints made in the Print Area alongside students prints from the past year. As well as featuring projects I have worked on such as Acne Paper, Minotaur and Elephant magazine. I also printed a letterpress quotation from a lecture Andy Altman gave at epsom earlier in the year and the back cover features a letterpress print I did for the book saying Long Live The Art School. Pictured aboved (photo credit to Bob Wilson)
As well as celebrating and exploring the notion of the Art School the book has collated all the interesting, intriguing, inventive and intelligent work which has been done by both staff and students this year and truly expresses the nature of the course.
Long Live The Art School!
Long Live The Art School
The launch will feature a publication containing a range of student work as well as a feature on the Print Area and student prints.
Flickr number 2.
I've set up a new Flickr account to upload photos from the UCA Epsom Print Area, which is where I work four days of the week.
Letterpress seed packets
I've set some lead type and ornaments to print onto tiny brown envelopes to turn them into seed packets. The information recorded on each packet will be the name, when to sow and notes. I was inspired by Small Caps blog after reading about seed swaps.
Click on the photo to enlarge.
3D Type Book
The 3D type book published by Lawrence King is now on sale at Amazon, and stocks are running low! A posted a video preview a few posts ago, which features a flick through of the whole book. The 3D Type Book features photography I did for the Pixies Minotaur boxset.
The 3D Type book
The 3D Type Book by FL@33 from Tomi Vollauschek on Vimeo.
This video shows a sneak preview of The 3D Type Book designed by FL@33 and published by Laurence King.
I worked on Minotaur with Vaughan Oliver (Art Direction), Simon Larbalestier (photography), Phoebe Richardson, Rosie Upright, Ben Ewing, Aaron Kitney and Michael Speed.
The picture below shows a spread featuring Minotaur.
"This book is the most comprehensive showcase of three-dimensional letterforms ever written, featuring over 1,300 images of more than 300 projects by more than 160 emerging talents and established individuals and studios" more here.
Me at work
Acne Paper
Here are a few more spreads of letterpress prints featuring in Acne Paper 11, Winter 2011. The Studio issue. Design by Ben Branagan and Art direction by Christoph Stolberg, who both came along for a fun day printing the over-sized letters.
Find every page here. It's on sale now.
A past post with more information is here.
Still Reverting to Type
The Reverting to Type exhibition is on at Standpoint Gallery until 22nd January.
Two of my prints feature in the show, which is one reason to see it, but really there is an amazing selection of innovative and beautiful letterpress work from printers the world over.
The opening night was rammed full of people amazed by the work, so I'm not just shamelessly promotion my work, it's a very good show.
If you don't believe me, then try this review from Eye Magazine.
Below is a video from New North Press who organised the exhibition , which gives interesting insight into their ambitions, as well as some lovely footage of the studio.
Reverting to Type from Lima Charlie on Vimeo.
Acne Paper 11 - Letterpress
A few months ago I was visited by Acne Paper to assist them in doing some Letterpress printing for the next issue. These large letters are around 30cm tall and were specially laser cut for the job. The magazine is out now, and it's really great. You can buy it here [update, now listed as out of print]. I'll put a few more images of the work once I've found a big enough scanner, it's a huge magazine!
Design by Ben Branagan.
Art Direction by Christoph Stolberg.
An out take print features in this post.
Pixies’ ‘Minotaur’ box set earns Grammy nomination for best packaging design
I worked on this beautiful boxset with Vaughan Oliver as Art director, Simon Larbalestier as Photographer and a group of fellow students in 2009. See previous blogposts for more Minotaur news.
More about the Grammy nomination here.
Reverting to type exhibition
Today I am busy framing and preparing some letterpress prints I printed for Reverting to Type at New North Press, which opens this week. Click on the image above to see the amazing line-up of contributing letterpress printers! Below are my framed prints for the show, some of my unframed prints will be on sale too.
Letterpress printer
Me at Hand & Eye Letterpress in March, photo by Rosa De Carlo.Here is something I found on my computer. It comes at a good time to re-read it. I wrote it as a career plan for my final project for my degree back in April. Take a read...
I am going to work in a letterpress workshop, I will learn the craft and skill of printing and the technique and beauty in good typography.
I have done a two week placement at Hand & Eye Letterpress and enjoyed it so much, I have never learnt so much so quickly and easily. I even enjoyed cleaning the windows and dissing (putting away in the correct place) tiny type for hours on end when there was no printing to do.
I spent long days standing up with short breaks and no pay whilst sleeping on a sofa, but I really felt right being there. I like the tactile type, the beautiful prints, the impression of the type on the paper. There is so much to consider all the time, there is always something going slightly wrong or unexpected which needs to be corrected. There is such a sense of achievement when something is completed, and things are completed all the time. There is no panic or stress when things go wrong, I was packing 5000 letterheads to be send to the client when Phil realised one line had been positioned wrong. We threw them in the bin and they had to be printed again, that’s two days work for one days paycheck. But these things happen, letterpress is a risky business and it is part of the process.
I have always been driven by process, and feel that one of my strengths is my interest in learning new processes and techniques constantly. I immerse myself in as much information about something as I can and I try things until I come up with something I like. My passion for traditional print techniques began in the very early days of my degree, and I feel more than ready to get into the world and start really working with print.
I’ve only been away for two days but I already miss the routine, the people and the type. So I think I’ll try and find a press to work in, maybe as an intern, maybe part-time, maybe on a casual basis, maybe in America where the presses are bigger, better and further away.
As it is very hard to find working and busy presses who are able to take on staff or interns I will be looking for jobs and internships in all areas of traditional printmaking, paper and publishing. I have a few ideas, such as London Print Studio who featured in my design investigation are a really interesting charity organisation built on an amazing ethos of community, people and printing. They have internships starting in November and are in the process of installing letterpress equipment.
I dream of having my own letterpress studio filled with tiny metal type and giant wooden lettering and beautiful colour inks and a vast array of paper stock with the radio playing and people dropping by for cups of tea.
A rather nice view of a salivary gland Sorry for the lack of posting recently, I am stranded far far away from my bits and bobs and my own computer due to an unexpected blockage in one of my salivary glands which has taken me out of action for now. I'm pursuing some letterpress work, which was meant to start next week but shouldn't be far off when I'm all better.
I found out about a billboard campaign in America stating optimistic facts about the recession, similar to the work I was doing during my degree to encourage optimism and happiness in my community which formed the content for my book Intervening the everyday (here). As for these new billboards the design isn't good but I think the intent is. For more info read on here.
Pixies Minotaur Exhibition and secret gig! UPDATE
As promised here are some more photos from the Minotaur Work in progress exhibition a few weeks back. More info in earlier blogs.
above: My photograph of Pixies spelt out of small metal type in a spread for the small book.
above: the image on the right is from the same photo shoot.
above: A shot of the Minotaur boxset content.
above: My photograph of Pixies spelt out of small metal type in a spread for the small book.above: Photo I took as part of a shoot Art Directed by Vaughan.
above: the image on the right is from the same photo shoot.above: and another from that shoot. The shoot also features in the Minotaur Digital Press Release number 2 (posted below).
All work has been Art Directed by Vaughan Oliver.
Pixies Minotaur Exhibition and secret gig!
Well last night saw the launch of Minotaur, the Pixies boxset I've been working on with Vaughan Oliver and 7 others since February. There was an exhibition of the artwork as a work in progress. This included the design and art direction of Vaughan and the photography of Simon Larbalestier, both of whom worked on all the five original Pixies albums.
The exhibition also featured a 40 minutes set by the Pixies themselves, which was amazing! The highlight was Kim Deal saying Thank you to Vaughan and his students, and actually mentioned my name! It was great to meet both her and Frank Black before the exhibition as well as Simon Larbalestier, who's photography lined the walls alongside ours.
My work was hung in the exhibition as spreads from the two books featuring in Minotaur. I also spent time with Vaughan last week preparing the artwork for print and composing the large banners. It all came out really well and looked great hung in the space at Village Underground on Great Eastern Street.
More of my own photos to follow but until I can get them from the camera to the screen these from official sources will have to do. Click here to buy Minotaur, or just to see what's included.
Hand & Eye Letterpress part two
I've finally sorted through my photos of Hand & Eye Letterpress, where I spent two weeks helping out and learning in April.
Faces in unusual places.
Six Elements of Good Typography, set by me in Baskerville.
Faces in unusual places.
Six Elements of Good Typography, set by me in Baskerville.
Ready to print, a poster of an Eric Gill quote. Available at the Hand & Eye shop here.
Now sold out, available at Keep Calm Gallery only.
The quote is "If you look after goodness and truth, beauty will take care of itself" A lovely statement.
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