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:

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!

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.

‘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:

‘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.

I’ll take pictures of the process next time, promise.

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.

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…

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