Saturday 17 July 2010

De seis maneras diferentes - Chapter 8 hits the web

CEO for encerrados afuera Mr J, is back from his tour of Europe and top of his To do list was updating the novel I mentioned in an earlier post - read here - 
Kirby: King of ComicsThis week's slow reading is Kirby: King of Comics. Artwork is nothing short of awesome and it arrived at a time when I'm researching into old comics imagery for a future project.
Over and out

Friday 16 July 2010

Square Circle Triangle - The latest Co:Lab project

With thanks to Andrew for the text!
Produced over the course of a month for exhibition at this year's VunkFest Music and Arts extravaganza, co:lab's latest project is a six colour, cross pollinated, geometric delight.

Recalling the overprint collaboration of co:lab's debut outing, each of the three final pieces in the SC&T project bare the creative stamp of all three co:lab members.

The prints are built up from a simple geometric template – a triangle within a circle within a square. In week one we each tackled the square (leaving a space for a subsequent circle to occupy). At this point Jono, Beto and Andrew all chose two colour as a signature to carry through the project and ensure some kind of continuity through the set.

At the end of the first week we came together with the fruit of our labour and left with each other's as a stimulus for week two – the circle. Both this and the triangular element of the project differ slightly from step one in that we each, from that point on, had the freedom to bleed one of our chosen colours out into the preceding shape and through the artwork of our fellow co:labbers.

We moved up a print size with this project and following week three's triangle we were faced with finding a new source for acetates. Up until now we have been printing these out on Jono's A4 printer but with SC&T's maximum working size of 350mm x 350mm we had to look for outside assistance. Fortunately Beto happened upon a recommendation for www.copyexpress.co.uk who were extremely helpful and provided A3 acetate we could patch together with amazing next day deliverly!

Jono cunningly managed to bypass the acetate stage by producing his contribution in cut paper which could be placed straight onto the coated screen when exposing.

SC&T was hanging in The Shetland Museum's Learning Room between the 9th and the 11th July alongside many other artists contributing to this year's VunkFest. The museum also played host to a series of short films on the Sunday and of course you can read about all the great bands playing that fantastic weekend here. For more information on all the going on check out www.myspace.com/vunkventures


 

Saturday 10 July 2010

New cards arrived

Encouraged by the wise words of Jedi masters Andrew & Jono, I have finally produced a set of self promotional cards.
Using the services of Moo.com I put together a series of 8 cards with a selection of my favourite pieces from the past 2 years on the back. Thanks Rachel for the info!
So next time I see you remind me to give you one.
WilsonAnother welcomed arrival this week was Wilson by Daniel Clowes (Eightball, Ghost World, David Boring). Silke and I have been laughing a bit and enjoying Wilson's awesome sense of meaninglessness. Click on the image to access the podcast with Clowes discussing the creation of Wilson and make the Amazon guys happier.