Colour Value has been included in an exhibition in The Pigeon Wing. This is part of The Festival of Nearly Invisible Publishing, organised by Very Small Kitchen. The full text of the film will also be included in a publication.
Colour Value
September 1st, 2010Anarchy/Apathy
August 31st, 2010As part of the London Anti-Design Festival there is an open poster competition. Posters must be black and white and on the theme of anarchy/apathy. Selected posters will be printed A1 and hung in the Research Studios workshop space. I gave two submissions:
Crookee Catalogue
August 14th, 2010Crookee is a catalogue of all the type sculptures I made while at Camberwell. The cover of the book was printed in silver ink on chocolate coloured card using the same type of woodblocks as used in some of the castings and printed in Camberwell College of Art letter press. All the pages inside were printed at Ditto Press who also bound it. The pages inside are Munken Pure, all printed two colour, using either red and gold or green and gold ink.
Tipografia Damasceno
August 9th, 2010Last week I visited Tipografia Damasceno with João Bicker from FBA and Joana Monteiro. This is a letterpress and offset printers in Coimbra, Portugal. A family business that has been running for over 35 years. One of the two sons in the family was João Damasceno, a poet, who unfortunately died quiet recently. However, FBA are going to design a book of his work that will be hand set and printed by his brother and mother.
Robert Smithson and Entropy – A Response
July 20th, 2010‘O.K. we’ll begin with entropy. That’s a subject that’s preoccupied me for some time.’
From the oil still leaking into the gulf of mexico as I write, at a rate of between 35,000 and 60,000 barrels per day , to the corner of my laptop that is crumbling and cracking from where my wrist rests on it, entropy is in evidence all around us. Entropy was one of the main concerns of the artist Robert Smithson. The themes of decay, deterioration and irreversibility run through his work and writings, and entropy itself was the subject of his essay ‘Entropy and the New Monuments’, 1966 (ENM), and the interview ‘Entropy Made Visible’, 1973 (EMV). These texts provide a departure point for various lines of enquiry around the idea of entropy, constructing links between diverse subjects, and it is this spreading, unfolding, weblike enquiry of Smithson’s, that has led me to compile the following text, as I map my own understanding of the implications of entropy. Download the pdf here.
Final Exhibition Preparation – Part 2
July 12th, 2010
Final Exhibition Preparation – Part 1
July 12th, 2010The MA Graphic Design exhibition is in the old part of Camberwell College this year. The building is great, but it isn’t in ideal condition for an exhibition. We had just over a week to work on it so it’s going to look a lot better in the end. Here are some before images:
Metal Working
July 4th, 2010Sandblasted the aluminium ‘Crookee’. The surface of this one retained some of its variation, but the bronze bronze bits looked a lot flatter afterwards.
Mold Breaking and Cleaning
June 25th, 2010Time to break open the molds and clean these two up nicely for the show.
Creeptacular and Crookee Continue
June 25th, 2010This was the nerve wracking bit of the bronze casting process. Would the molds shatter, were they solid inside, would the air vents work, was it all a massive waste of time?
