Rose Thomas: Letters

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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.

Painting on to the screen

I have been painting on to screens with screen filler to print reversed out. The top photo is the screen filler on the screen and the bottom one is ready to print with black ink. It makes screen printing so much quicker and easier to prepare. Today I have printed two posters and eight business card designs.

jotta's photos from the Dazed Live zine exhibition

In the last post I wrote about my zine Adventures in Newsprint being part of Dazed Live festival.

jotta, who curated the exhibition have some good photos of the event on their flickr.

Dazed Live Zine exhibition

Last weekend saw the Dazed Live festival take over several venues in London. As part of Dazed Live jotta held an exhibition "celebrating the best London zines of past and present, alongside a selection of iconic international titles."

A zine I made to represent the Print Area at UCA Epsom was entered into the exhibition alongside students zines printed in the Print Area and many a zine from the depths of self-publishing history.

Here are some photos from 'Adventures in Newsprint' which was created from a selection of scrap prints produced in the Print Area at UCA Epsom (GDNM.org). Screen Prints by Students- Ben Ewing, Danielle White & Depinder Sidhu and Staff - Rose Thomas, Brian Whitehead & Tim Ellis.

left hand side: Rose Thomas. right hand side: Ben Ewing

left hand side: Ben Ewing. right hand side: Danielle White

Ben has photos on the exhibition on his blog.

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.

An illustration for Inventive and co

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.

The book features one of my images from Minotaur, the Pixies boxset.

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.

Available for pre-order on Amazon

Valentines Day cards

Just sent off these hand screen printed Valentine's Day cards to the Black Swan Arts.

Me at work

Here's me printing my Christmas Thank you postcards, which are in the post. Letterpress on the Farley proofing press 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.

Hello. I love you.

New cards, illustrated and hand screen printed by me. Winging their way into gift shops in the new year.

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.

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.

Prints from recent months

Experimenting with four colour separation screen prints

Screen printed postcards

Screen printed miniature envelopes

Experimenting with new screen print inks

Out-takes from a Letterpress project- look here and here for the final prints

B Pattern

Here is the finished screen print of the B print from my series of Alphabet type prints.

Hello

Elephant Magazine

A bad crop from an ill-fitting scanner.

Images from a photoshoot I did for Elephant magazine. It was a collaborative project using type designs from students on Graphics Design at UCA Epsom. These words were then displayed and I photographed it before printing a large format version and sculpting it and photographing it again. The image was used as the chapter divider for the Studios section.

The other chapter dividers are all images created by students at UCA Epsom. The project was Art Directed by Vaughan Oliver.

This issue is great, with an interesting feature on printing textiles as well as an interesting interview with Vaughan Oliver- including work from the Pixies Minotaur boxset I worked on.