I almost have no words to express my levels of fury at images of reversed lead type.
(The latest abomination being the giant Sherlock Holmes posters at Flinders St Station. I get so angry that even Robert Downey Junior’s face can’t distract me.)
The trailer for Gangs Of New York has lead type in it, and it makes me mad because its all reversed and frontfacing.
#printmakerpetpeeves
@TheEndeavour just dropped a giant box of Letraset for me to go through. OMG OMG OMG
The last of the digital prints for the Atlas, on A1 trace.
Two large format digital prints for the Atlas.
The Neverending Typewriter Story is done! The Neverending Typewriter Story is done! Now I just need to fold the final 40 pages before Friday…
Space shuttle mosaic made with computer keys by Doug Powell.
Good afternoon nerds. It’s time to die buy my Blade Runner inspired etching, Monoceros Monologue.
Facebook is proving to be quite useful for uni stuff. Was sent a link to this artist’s page by another student — hooray! The subject matter being researched is different, but the methods are very interesting.
Artist: Ellen Bell
Project: Talk To Me, 2010
Printmaking. It’s not easy.
—Adriana, Anna’s ‘waxing porter’ back in London. Typeset for Anna on handmade paper. Here, Adriana gets to the root of the creative process, then rips it off with a rapid movement against the direction of growth.
Dan Shepelavy notes, “A wonderful example of something so basic, so dashed off, so ordinary — some corrections on a galley proof — that happen to merge, by chance, into something really artful.” Resistance to stretch indeed.
Spent today reacquainting myself with Illustrator. And relativity.
Current reading.
At the library last year I worked with Frank Lovece from The Primitive Calculators. He’s absolutely one of my favourite people ever. When he saw me pick up a book on type from the stacks one day, we went on a search for writing by Jan Tschichold (after we’d figured out how to spell it). I borrowed this one from the uni library yesterday. I love the idea of the “morality of good design”.
I'm a printmaker. I've recently been awarded my Master of Fine Art in Printmaking.
I used to keep a big folder containing all my research. This is the electronic version. "Once Upon a Spacetime" sounded far less filthy than "Crumpet's Big Box".
For less MFA and more TPB, Anybody want a peanut?.
