Shillington College

Pictoplasma – Crim Collective

This week saw the infamous Pictoplasma Festival in Berlin. In 2006, Paul Heys of The University of Huddersfield and myself, set up an educational based collective (Crim Collective) of design and illustration students, this year we were invited to take part in the festival, so I flew out with 4 students and set to work transforming an incredible building in the heart of Berlin's Mitte district, as part of the Pictoplasma Character Walk.

An amazing time was had, creating the exhibition and mingling with many of the other Pictoplasma artists. If you ever get chance to visits Berlin I suggest timing it around this event held each year, it's a mix of an incredible atmosphere, incredible work set to the backdrop of an incredible city!

Secret Wars Battle

Melbourne students should definitely head down to the next Secret Wars event on the 13 April if this video is anything to go by.

secretwars.com.au/melbourne/

Publishers Club & Inkygoodness Time Lapse Video

inky publishers manchester from robert watson studio on Vimeo.

For those of you who couldn’t get along to the Publishers Club x Inkygoodness Manchester event you can now check out a time-lapse video of the whole day – courtesy of photographer Rob Watson!

For more images from the event or to purchase one of the beautiful Totummy Zines head over to Blanket Magazine or Ammo website.

Cover Artists: Daren Newman (Purple), Lesley Barnes (Red), Simon Wild (Gold) and Stephen Chan (Green)

Featured Artists also include:
Letsbrock / Karo Akpokiere / Claire Hartley / Alison Richards / Holly Lawton / Patrick O’Leary / Oliver Cuthbertson / Marnie Pitt / Dean Zappy / Christopher Ross / Will Adams / The Pern / Christopher Guest / Kayleigh Day / Carlos Garde-Martin / Claire Senior / Mags James / Laura Gee

Printed by Ripe Digital and Screen printed covers by one69a

The zine can be purchased from the Ammo website whilst stocks last. All proceeds will be used towards future events & more printed goodness!

Check out more photos of the finished zine here!

Lettercult: Best of 2010

For some really awe inspiring typography check out Lettercult: the best of 2010. Definitely worth getting a cuppa, putting your feet up and having a good scroll as there's 13 pages of goodness (and that's just day 1).

GoRed!

The GoRed! project is now live. Created by The Partners, (Last weeks D&AD lecture in Manchester) the GoRed! project commissioned over 140 illustrators and designers from around the world to create either a head, a body or some legs, in order to create up to 64,000 different combinations, resulting in a custom print which you can buy, helping out the Richard House children's charity.

Jean Jullien

I'll let the work do the talking, the simply magnificent Jean Jullien.

Deanna Halsall

 

Another one of Manchester's finest Deanna Halsall.

Publisher's Club x Inkygoodness Manchester One-Day Event

Come and join the creative fun at this one day event in Manchester!

The Publishers's Club are join forces with Inkygoodness for a fun-filled, one day event which will include a live screen-printing workshop, networking sessions and the final leg of the Inkygoodness Character Totem Live Draw Tour!

Character Totem Live Draw
Come down and watch the action unfold as local artists ink, paint, spray and doodle throughout the day, creating colourful, quirky and charming characters with their 6ft high wooden totems!

The Publishers Club present 'Totummy' Collaborative Zine Project
The very first Publishers Club Zine will also be released and throughout the day there will also be Live Screenprinting from one69a where you can screenprint your own zine cover!

Those who can't make the event can also get involved online and submit your work for the very first Publishers Club zine! There is an open call for submissions for original artwork based around the theme of 'Totem'. Click here to read how you can get involved 

Saturday 12th March
Cord Bar, 8 Dorsey Street (off Tib Street in the Northern Quarter) Manchester
1pm - 7pm, Admission FREE

For more info visit here.

www.thepublishersclub.co.uk  / www.inkygoodness.com

Sambon Fire Insurance Maps

Here are some great examples of old style lettering / typography from some old fire insurance maps in the US. Some are really quite lovely!

For more of these click here.

RVLVR Art Project

RVLVR is an experimental project consisting of different artists using the same given picture material to create new artworks.

http://rvlvr.net/