Workshop | People of Print

Kelly Angood – The Pop-Up Pinhole Project

Entry by Lo Parkin / May 17, 2013

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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Alexa Galea

Entry by Marcroy / April 16, 2013

Alexa recently completed her masters in illustration at Central Saint Martins, where she often got into trouble with print technicians due to her slightly wild and unorthodox approach to screen printing. She now works as an illustrator in London running regular workshops with a particular emphasis on rethinking the context of drawing, most recently a Drawing Séance at the National Trust’s Ham House in August. Nature, horror, folk art and combining overhead projectors and screen printing with digital technologies interests her and she will be speaking and exhibiting at The Third International Illustration Symposium in Krakow in November. Feature

No Fly Posters :: Round 3

Entry by Marcroy / April 11, 2013

No Fly Posters is based in Manchester and involves an abandoned building with seven boarded up windows each displaying a poster stating “No Fly Posters.” So, seven creatives are asked to re-imagine the concept of NO FLY POSTERS to replace the original seven. Each round has seven new designs, they are currently on round 3 so there are 21 lovely posters for you all to look at. Great idea and I look forward to seeing how this develops – maybe a book? We’ll see. Feature

Small Town Ink :: Traditional Print Day

Entry by Marcroy / April 5, 2013

This free traditional print day will be held at the University of Leeds, School of Design, Grass Studio on Wednesday 24th April 2013 from 10.30am – 5pm. They will be “pushing traditional print in a new direction” by educating young designers and running workshops. Feature

PechaKucha x Fair Trade at Design Museum

Entry by Marcroy / March 4, 2013

We were at the Design Museum this evening where we experienced a delightful series of talks, PechaKucha style hosted by Chris Haughton (Node). During PechaKucha, each speaker is limited to 20 slides and is only able to talk for 20 seconds per slide, which made it very entertaining and engaging for the audience. Feature

DRUCKBUS Siebdruck Workshop @ Gotthelf Schulhaus, Basel from WEISSHEIMER Grafik Design on Vimeo.

Druckbus

Entry by Marcroy / February 23, 2013

So for those of you who don’t understand German, here is a quick lesson, ‘druck’ is print and ‘bus’ is bus. You do the word math. I have always wanted to have a setup like this. What a legend! The kids love it too, you can hear their amazement when they see the ink on the shirt. Feature

Kipepeo Cards Project :: Kibera Slum, Kenya

Entry by Marcroy / February 16, 2013

Earlier this year, we were given the task of setting up a functional screen print studio in the enormous Kibera Slum in scorching hot Kenya. The conditions were far from ideal, with dusty streets, lack of clean running water, small workspace and many other variables that would make it difficult to print. However, with the determination and support of Rachel Baughen from Kipepeo Cards we managed to bring this idea to reality earlier this month. Feature

Paul Wolterink

Entry by Marcroy / January 21, 2013

Dutchman, art director, cross-disciplinary designer, printmaker and design educator Paul Wolterink works across a range of media. Wolterink believes that “Anything can function as a carrier for information”. His design vision is based on rapid, instinctive ‘design intuition’, resulting in strong communication and simple visual language, that quickly burns on the retina. Feature

PRNT STUDIO

Entry by Marcroy / January 14, 2013

  Started in January 2012, PRNT Studio was founded by two young designers from Toronto who were determined to do what they love each day; creating original surface designs for the fashion, home and paper goods industries. With a strong belief in promoting local talent, they have grown to feature seasoned and aspiring Canadian artists with a focus on illustration talent. In addition to ready-made collections PRNT Studio is happy to offer custom artwork and collaborations, trend direction, CADS/Technical Drawings, Market Research and branding. Feature

Crafty Fox Market

Entry by Miranda Foxx / December 10, 2012

This weekend The Crafty Fox Market held a great Christmas event at The Dogstar in Brixton. In my opinion one of the best craft markets i’ve been to recently with stalls from the brilliant Sandra Dieckmann, Jamie Mills, House Of Ismay, Emily The Pemily, Jim Bob Art and many more. The screen print your own tote bag for just a fiver was the highlight of the event. Feature

Two Times Elliott: 25 for 25 night

Entry by Miranda Foxx / December 8, 2012

A night of risograph printing hosted by design studio Two Times Elliot at the Great Western Studios on the night of the private view proved to be a busy and aesthetically pleasing. There were illustration, print, textiles, jewellery, you name it on display and for sale and not to mention alcohol too. Feature

Josie Molloy- Live screen printing at Museum of London

Entry by Miranda Foxx / December 2, 2012

It was a nippy evening on Friday night at the Museum of London late event, but inside Josie Molloy was breaking a sweat teaching people how to pull a print. These 10 layer prints are an amalgamation of rubbings from various buildings, walls and architecture around London. The final layer being printed on the night added the type references of all the layers geographical whereabouts. Feature

UAL Screen Printing at Museum of London

Entry by Miranda Foxx / November 29, 2012

Come join us at the Museum of London on Friday 30th November from 7-9 and get screen printing whether you’re a first timer or a pro, brought to you by University of the Arts London. Meet me and my friends, come hang out, get printing or just observe if you don’t fancy getting your hands dirty.

Kings From The East

Entry by Marcroy / November 12, 2012

From 19th November to 23rd December, JaguarShoes Collective will bring together a selection of exciting food, fashion and design craftsmen to create a unique Christmas shopping emporium. To cater to all your christmas needs we will be curating a series of retail pop-ups. Eight exciting brands will have three or four day slots to ‘take over’ the recently refurbished retail gallery and café-bar, ‘The Old Shoreditch Station’.
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Two Times Elliot:: 25 for 25

Entry by Miranda Foxx / November 12, 2012

Two Times Elliot are holding one of their enticing nights of Riso Printing and beer on December 7th at the ‘Atrium’ at Great Western Studios. They offer 25 one colour A3 riso prints and a free beer for £25+VAT in a choice of seven colours. It’s simple, you take your artwork and they print it for you. Or just head over for beers at £2.50 all night. You can get your tickets and more info here. See you there!

Drink, Shop & Do

Entry by Miranda Foxx / November 10, 2012

Quirky meets tipsy at this one of a kind design shop/cafe/bar selling products from emerging designers alongside vintage furniture and home wares. Founders Kirtstie and Coralie wanted a place where everything was pretty and also for sale, a non-stuffy shop where customers are welcomed to interact with products. If that wasn’t enough they hold an eclectic array of events including tonights ‘Colour in Sneakers’ evening. Did I mention they serve cocktails too? Sold.

Coal Shed Press

Entry by Miranda Foxx / October 23, 2012

4 short months ago Adam Piper set up a new printmakers resource in Rochester, Kent. They offer some great introductory printmaking workshops such as lino and wood cut and etching of all varieties, for a very good price too! Have a gander at their facilities and drop them an email through their website.

London Centre for Book Arts

Entry by Miranda Foxx / October 22, 2012

The LCBA have an open evening this Tuesday 30th October for drop in workshops and demonstrations of the facilities they hold. They’re also holding workshops in Papermaking, Letterpress and Bookbinding, head to the site for more info.

Makers and Shakers

Entry by Marcroy / October 10, 2012

Flamingo are going to be holding a talk on the importance of making/contemporary craft, called Makers and Shakers. They’ve got some great speakers involved – printmaker Anthony Burrill, for example, and Andrew Groves from Miscellaneous Adventures. It’s on Wednesday 21st November at the Book Club in Shoreditch, and tickets are a fiver. Brill.

Manchester Print Fair

Entry by Andy / October 9, 2012

Again, awesome. All the details are on this picture really.

Off Modern @ APT Gallery

Entry by Marcroy / September 17, 2012

A Night of Musical and Visual Wonder. Featuring: CYMBALS, youngTEE, Roman and more.
28/09/2012 from 7pm – 1am at Apt Gallery, 6 Creekside, SE8 4SA.

The NY Art Book Fair

Entry by Marcroy / September 14, 2012

Printed Matter, Inc. presents THE NY ART BOOK FAIR from September 28th–30th with a preview on Thursday September 27th from 6–9 pm at MoMA PS1. This looks absolutely incredible. Somebody fly me over to New York for this!

Video :: KKOutlet Workshop

Entry by Marcroy / July 2, 2012

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.

‘What’s Next?’ at KKOutlet

Entry by Miranda Foxx / June 29, 2012

It’s been a great week here at KKOutlet with live printing and workshops from our good friends Peckham Print Studio, Studio Mothership, Bolt Editions, Heretic, Holly Bagnall, Danielle Watt, Chris Pell and Marcroy.
It’s sad to say today is the last day, come down whilst you can to view and purchase the great prints created all week long. Thank you to everyone who’s been involved, all the designers who contributed and all the lovely people who took the time to hang out with us. We had fun and we hope you did too. Feature

Inside KKOutlet

Entry by Miranda Foxx / June 26, 2012

It’s day two of ‘What’s Next?’ for education week with our live screenprinting and letterpress with the great guys from Peckham Print Studio and Studio Mothership at KKOutlet in Hoxton Square. Book your tickets for the FREE education discussion panel here. If you haven’t come down yet, here’s a peek at what everyones been up to. Feature

POP :: KKOutlet – What’s Next?

Entry by Marcroy / June 22, 2012

We are very excited to be running a series of workshops for the final week (25th – 29th June) of KKOutlet’s month long extravaganza of workshops, talks and exhibitions. We will be covering the topic of Education, creating artwork in response to talks and running various different print workshops. We have Studio Mothership running letterpress workshops, Peckham Print Studio and Jim O’Raw running screen print workshops and the fabulous Bolt Editions will be running a really cool riso printing workshop. Paper sponsor by GFSmith.

Day Zine

Entry by Miranda Foxx / June 12, 2012

Day Zine are taking over ‘Uncontained’ at Boxpark Shoreditch on the 21st June. They make a zine a day and the next issue will be made in the duration of the day, you can go along and contribute. So get off the sofa and get involved!

LPF Pop-Up

Entry by Andy / June 8, 2012

Leeds Print Festival is back with a pop-up thingy on June 23rd+24th.

Blim

Entry by Marcroy / June 8, 2012

BLIM is an independent, family-run art and craft facility now conveniently located in the heart of Vancouver’s Historic Chinatown. Their aim is to help build community through the spirit of fun and creativity, making the arts and crafts accessible to a wide range of skill sets and aims. Think of it as both a resource and platform for artists, a non-funded arts facility and small business run by and for artists.

Linocut Workshop

Entry by Miranda Foxx / June 8, 2012

Nick Morley, better known as Linocut Boy regularly holds linocut workshops in Margate but this Saturday he’ll be spending the day passing on his knowledge at Material Gallery near Old Street, London. Tickets can be bought to include his great hand picked linocut starter sets, specially chosen components from a range of suppliers at a very good price. Don’t miss out!