The diffusion line and ‘young heart of Versace’ – Versus Versace signifies ‘Iconic, season-less fashion for those that experiment in life, love & style’ never failing to deliver the brand’s SS13 campaign channels energy through a series of wavey bold and psychedelic patterns. It’s ‘Daring & Provocative. It’s the energy and sprit that I want to capture with Versus today and share it with the new generation’ – Donatella Versace
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Designer Kelly Angood wanted a ‘real’ medium format camera, but knew she couldn’t afford one, consequently she dealt with it the only way she knew how and made one! After setting up a page on kickstarter to gain funding Kelly has spread the world about her beautiful prototype camera (screen printed by the wonderful Joe Vass) that creates amazing pin-hole images and the best thing about it is you make it all yourself! With the project finishing by 1:30pm on Saturday every last donation counts in the hope of developing the project further and expanding into educational workshops for kids and teenagers and the possibility of more exciting cameras. I caught up with Kelly to find out more about the project.
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TYRSA for JORDAN from Axel & Julien on Vimeo.
In anticipation for the return of the early 90’s classic kicks, the Air Jordan 5 ‘Grapes’ edition (sporting a fresh new colourway) (out NOW) is celebrated by the dope French Graphic Designer Alexis Taieb (AKA TYRSA) in a video directed by Axel Morin & Julien Capelle) The amazing clip parallels ‘a young man’s hoop dreams’ with Tyrsa’s creative process as he forms his mad heavy hand-drawn type featuring a famous quote from Jordan himself. Feature
Street wear brand 10 Deep have released a dope teaser for us to preview the 3rd delivery from their Spring 13 Collection ‘Babylon’ launching this week. We can expect to see lots of bold prints to get hyped about including camo, Aztec & floral inspired designs. Feature
Stussy have moved into the printed world with volume one of a bi-annual publication which will feature the Spring ’13 collection and much more. Cover Photography: A$AP ILLZ by Kenneth Cappello. Limited Edition Cover Featuring Block Photograph by Chuck Katz. Look at this slick video which shows the process of the zine printing. Print is definitely not dead, go and buy your zine from the Stussy Shop. Feature
Screen printing powerhouse Ryonet and creative agency Print Liberation have joined forces to empower you to start screen printing today with the new YOUR DIY PRINT SHOP, the best Do-It-Yourself screen printing kits on the market. Feature
We are very excited to announce the PechaKucka talks and the official launch of the fantastic handmade rugs organised by Chris Haughton of Node. We have been working very closely with Chris over the last 8 months to bring this project to fruition. Feature
FAILE from Ride5 Films on Vimeo.
This video demonstrates how the Brooklyn-based duo collaborate and develop their work from a concept into amazing screen printed paste-ups and posters. We visited their studio back in 2006 and we really love what they do.
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‘Poster Child Prints’ is the brainchild of Sonja Teri based in LA. In this interview she talks about editions of prints selling out in record times causing websites to crash and how she wants a neon sign saying ‘PCP’ but can see how that might be a problem with the drug users in LA. haha. We love her and PCP. Feature
This video is beautifully shot at Bob Eight Pop’s studio. I hope you enjoy watching the screen print process as much as I do. I particularly love the white ink on darker paper stock. Feature
‘Zeena’ was launched out of a love of Scandinavian textiles, fabric, screen printing and her growing pattern collections. All of her products are crafted in her East London studio making each item truly unique and she carefully sources all her materials from the UK. Some lovely products here. Feature
To celebrate the Montana Shop & Gallery Lisboa 2nd anniversary, Aryz was invited to do an exhibition on the gallery with his process drawings. They where not for sale, so it was decided to work on a silkscreen print…5 Colors, 50×70 cm, signed and numbered in an edition of 50 copies. Feature
A project by Happiness Brussels, designed by Anthony Burrill. Limited edition of 200 posters, screen printed with oil from the Gulf of Mexico disaster. The oil was picked up on the beaches of Grand Isle, Louisiana in buckets then the posters wereprinted at Purple Monkey Design in New Orleans, Louisiana. If you buy a poster, all benefits go to the non-profit organisation “Coalition to Restore Coastal Louisiana” (CRCL). Feature
Kid Icarus is a screen print studio and retail shop located within Toronto’s beautiful Kensington Market. Dedicated to finding the best in independent contemporary craft, with a focus on paper products, Kid Icarus takes pride in representing locally made items with the highest quality standards. The store’s search will occasionally step out of this boundary for the sake of good design, clever sense, and thought-out detail. Kid Icarus is also an accomplished screen print shop, providing services in an open environment where customers can watch the process unfold before their eyes. Feature
Everybody needs to wash their hands. Everybody needs to dry their hands. Now you can wash and dry your hands with the same tap / dryer. Food for thought on a Friday afternoon.
Step behind the seams with the first chapter of an extraordinary journey with this video directed by Carter Peabody. This is a beautifully shot insight to the processes that Smythson to create their products.
We were at this awesome event at Baysixty6 Skatepark printing the Crossfire Tees for all of these crazy skaters. The event was mental with lots of really impressive tricks. Definitely stick this in your diaries for next year.
NODE: fair trade rugs from chris haughton on Vimeo.
We are very excited to be working on this incredible project alongside Chris Haughton and Akshay Sthapit of Node. We have selected 18 designers from across the globe to create a 2m sq carpet design which have been hand crafted in Nepal. It is a non-profit social business that supports a school and an orphanage. The rugs will be for sale via the Design Museum Shop. Ever heard of a better project!?
Adam Kammerling a.k.a Adam the Rapper, The Hackney Badger and ‘the singer from that band Old Mayor” has teamed up with Cuth the producer to create an EP titled The Letters. Lots of incredible lyrical talent to be experienced here. This is a just a promo video for their release, I hope you enjoy it as much as I did. Credit to Bruce Collier for the video production.
We are very excited to be working with our previous clients Arcane Roots again. We will be printing more wonderful things for you guys to buy at their shows. We saw them live and we were blown away by the superbly tight rhythms and breakdowns mixed with heavenly vocals. This band is going far!
Stuart has directed this awesome video for the one and only While She Sleeps band. The video and the lyrics hit you hard and right where they are supposed to.
Matt got in touch with us just today and we completely fell in love with his work. He has done a lot of great pattern and illustration work for various reputable clients including some awesome fabric inners for Chrome Bags featured in this video. Simply fantastic.
Everything about this music video is incredible.
Every now and then I think we can venture away from the world of print ever so slightly. I’m in love with the work of Corey Adams. Pure genius. Be sure to check out Mongo Man too.
The Choque Cultural print store is a collaboration between Tristan Manco (coauthor of Graffiti Brasil) based in the UK and Choque who produce the majority of their top quality screen prints in Brazil. Just look at these fantastic large format letterpress posters which they use as paste-ups.
Here is a cool little video of the workshops that took place at KK Outlet last week filmed by the super good May-Ninth studio.
A little video portrait about HORT, created by IGNANT.TV for ARTE Creative.
Director & editor: Clemens Poloczek
Camera: Clemens Poloczek & Marcus Werner
Interview by: Anna Nosthoff
Firefly Press is based in Boston, Massachusetts. This is a wonderful documentary about letterpress. I hope you enjoy it as much as I did.
