These are the final cover designs for my Typography class booklet. We were given a typeface at random and had to produce a type chart and a cover, I was really hoping for Futura but got Palatino instead. You can’t always get what you want, I suppose.
I still used both for the covers – one and two ink variations:
Of course I ended up loving Palatino more than I thought possible and started to appreciate its own quirkiness and calligraphic details. I developed an alphabet around them both, Futura vs Palatino or even Want vs Have. I want to screen print a poster with it but for the time being here’s A and g:
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Amelia’s Magazine is one of my favourite blogs to follow, I still keep all my old copies of the mag and go through them from time to time for inspiration. So I’m very very happy to have contributed to it with some illustrations for the catwalk show at Latitude Festival, reading her review here and here makes me wish I’d been there so much!.
This is my absolute favourite from Coco de Mer for Circus Child’s collection. The red sequin body and matching head piece have a definite circus and burlesque flair to them, don’t they?…it’s my birthday in 8 months, anyone?
I had a bit too much fun with this one from Central Saint Martins graduate Lee Brown :
Hope to contribute again in the future, I’m finding I quite enjoy working on 24h deadlines, makes you focus and take quick decisions. Thank you for this Amelia!
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I’m in the curation team that took over the Red Container exhibition and events during the Summer Degree show at LCC. We took submissions from BA Book Arts & Design students and filled the container with over a hundred books, zines and prints.
Here’s Antonella reading Sans Soleil:
Zines and self-published little books by the window:
We had many many events, talks and workshops during the week, it was mental. These are some figures and samples from the Origami workshop:
I designed the poster to promote the show, one portrait A3 side (left) with the main title and image and one landscape A4 side (right) with information about the events and contact details so they can be used for different promotion purposes either together or each on their own. I’m quite happy with the result considering I had less than 24h to design and print the whole thing!.
A few more from the Private View, it was crazy busy:
Check out Theresa’s much more eloquent post about the exhibition on her beautiful blog.
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Had a lot of fun making this box a few weeks ago for Jane Drinkwater’s class. It is indeed full of failed and successful models and experiments: concertina and accordion books, coptic and japanese stitching, origami and a mix of it all. I learnt a lot and will definitely use and modify some of the structures for future book projects.
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Back in October I chose Golden Lane as the subject for the ‘City Surfaces’ brief. One of the finest public architectural spaces of 1950s Britain, this Council Estate is now home to 1,500 people in central London. I am fascinated by the primary colours and the idealism and hope of Post War community living (there is a public swimming pool, tennis court and gym, nursery and even an Art gallery). I want to live there so much!.
‘The Truth is Concrete’ is a series of hand printed A2 posters using a variety of printmaking techniques and materials. I’m now in the process of designing a book form using the images.
Lino Cut Alphabet:
Great Arthur House:
Chinese Collage Hand printed Collagraph and Lino cut :
Bayer House:
Chinese Collage Hand printed Collagraph and Lino cut :
Bowater House:
4 Layer Lino cut:
Crescent House:
On the left a photocopy collage from the image above that I manipulated digitally to create a pattern:
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A project I worked on earlier this year, Sans Soleil is a 64 page book inspired by the Japanese aesthetics of Wabi Sabi and the imperfect, impermanent, and incompleteness of Beauty. Borrowing the words from Chris Marker’s Sans Soleil (1983). I had a lot of fun with this book!
‘Ah well… after all, history only tastes bitter to those who expected it to be sugar coated.’
‘All women have a built-in grain of indestructibility. And men’s task has always been to make them realize it as late as possible. African men are just as good at this task as others. But after a close look at African women I wouldn’t necessarily bet on the men.’
This last one comes from one of my favourite scenes in the film.
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The fruit of my hard labour last Wednesday! A screen printed monoprint of my collage. Being a monoprint means no two prints are the same and to be honest this is not the best of the batch but I’m quite happy with it as it’s the one I’m submitting for the collaborative Screen Printing book we’re working on. The yellow on screen is actually a golden shade in real life and the letters are so much sharper but you get the idea.
I’ll take pictures of the process next time, promise.
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November 23rd, 2009 · Collage
Black&White A3 collage I’m hoping to finally screen print on wednesday, the letters are all cut into the paper and it reads ‘I am bravest in the face of fear’. An actual fact as my courage seems to come at times when it’s less needed.
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One of my favourite stalls in Handmade and Bound a few weeks ago was Cally Barker’s. The little crocheted Penguin classics caught my eye and I couldn’t resist the ‘Mystery and Crime’ one!
She told me about The Book Project in which she’d been involved, the work submitted is amazing . She might be contributing to an exhibition we are curating at college but that’s another story for another time…
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October 11th, 2009 · Books
I only got this book a few days ago and it’s already found its way into my favourites! I’ve always thought Alphabet books were quite special as they are, in a way, the first book. Bruno Munari’s ABC is clever and witty, first published in 1960 its playful use of colours and textures is so refreshing and inspiring.
I was showing it to my illustrator friend earlier today and she fell in love too, it’s definitely a book to keep close at hand and dip into for inspiration.
C for a Crow
L for a Long Leaf, a Leaf, a Little Leaf and a Lemon
O for an Owl and an Onion and an Orange
And my absolute favourite:
W for a Watermelon on a Wagon with a Wooden Wheel
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