novos – ‘foreign objects’

these have been on the table for a while now, but are finally ready to release. We were very pleased to be approached by Eelus and the Novos team to realise this edition of prints.

A quick background into the Novos project: Novos is a sci-fi film in the making, part funded by the revenue generated by sales of Novos inspired print editions by a number of carefully chosen artists.

This one by Eelus, ‘Foreign Objects’ is a 5 colour print, regular edition 125, a great new recycled stock to the studio, Paperback – Loop (milkweed) 300gsm, 500 x 700mm.

Also comes in a special ‘dusk’ variation (edition of 15). 5 colour printed to Somerset Satin (300gsm) soft white, guillotine edge.

These are sure to get snapped up pretty quick, released Friday 25th May, 11am (PST), which is 20:00 UK (BST) if I’ve done my sums right. Go here to grab one from the Novos store, and subscribe to Novos blog here to watch the progress of the film production.

izza appinesh tesht, hiccup…

we’ve just finished these beauties for Newcastle based design agency: Wonder Stuff Studio

‘Happiness Test’ created by Paul Alderson, this clever image at first glance uses nostalgic typography to get the message accross. But on closer inspection there’s a slightly more edgy meaning to it.

Got to admit, I’d artworked and printed them, and it was only when I was taking them off the rack that I saw it, but then again I’d had quite a bit of ‘Happiness’ the night before so was probably not 100%.

These are on sale at BritishByDesign site here at a very reasonable £35. Stamped and signed. 38 x 57cm, Somerset 300gsm Satin (2 deckled/2 false deckle edge)

i’d like to thank…

everyone that voted for MissUniverse in the Expresso Beans ‘Art Print Of The Year 2011′ awards. Absolutely thrilled and slightly embarrassed to come third ahead of such amazing artists. It seems that the image really struck a chord with a lot of people, most of my day is still spent answering e-mails from people requesting one. Its got it’s fair share of haters as well though!  but at the end of the day I got one of these:

Also, many thanks for voting ‘Stay Up Forever’ in at No. 16

double ghost – olly moss

Olly asked us to do a ‘little’ job for him. Of course we agreed! He was planning on doing a timed release (ie: making the prints available for one hour only), therefore the numbers of sales dictates the edition size, this way – everybody who wants one gets one, nobody misses out. He estimated something in the region of 100 – 150 prints. He’d drastically underestimated how popular these would prove to be, within an hour he’s sold 825 prints.

So we set to work, each print was 5 colours, printed on GFSmith Colorplan paper, needless to say it was a busy week – ‘blisters on blisters’!

monkey business…

We were asked by the nice folks at Nelly Duff gallery to create some prints for Hong Kong born artist Hin.

Hin intricately draws the image of an orangutan face using his right hand, whilst the bodies are individually hand finished with his left!

We produced the screenprints, edition of 125, printed on a great paper from GFSmith, Gmund Bier 250gsm,Weizen(white), which is made from re-cycled beer bottle labels, which is why it has the fleck in it.

You can see the outcome of Hin’s left handed personalisation of the prints here

know your arts from your elbow

we were recently asked to create a very small edition of prints for designer Claire Vickers.

The print uses beautifully hand-rendered type to cleverly illustrate the lyrics to the Elbow song ‘Mirrorball’.

The prints were printed in 2 different silver inks, on Fedrigoni Sirio Stardust – a really good 290gsm smooth stock, with a subtle silver fleck.

2011 space oddity

Recently we were asked to print up some illustrations by London based artist/illustrator  Tom Jennings. Being big fans of his loose and naive style and realising that there would probably never be an easier job than this, we said YES!!!!

These prints slot nicely into our ‘dirty thirty’ category, an edition of 30 prints released at the end of the month-around the 3oth and selling at a very ‘easy on the pocket’ £30.

The prints themselves are printed on Somerset Satin 310gsm paper, 400 x 300 mm with 2 natural deckled edge/2 false deckled edge.

The image and quote have been taken from the Stanley Kubrick classic 2001: A Space Oddysey, and re-interpretted and brought bang up to date ‘innit!’

The prints will be available to browse on-the-rack here until their release at the end of Novemeber, they will then be available exclusively from Tom’s BigCartel site coming soon

we are the thirsty

Another nice and easy job breezed through the studio last week, this one for designer Louise Sheeran.

The print ‘nous sommes les soiffards’ (we are the thirsty)  is a clever take on a French ’68 student revolution poster ’nous sommes les pouvoir’ (we are the power).

it is an edition of 25, A2 size screen prints on Fabriano Accademia 220gsm stock (4 guilotine edges). Until Louise Sheeran’s website is fully functional these prints are available to view and buy from the shop here at a very reasonable £30 (almost less than a bottle of Chateauneuf du Pape), and it’ll last a lot longer!  Santé!

etchy and scratchy

Another recent resident on the rack were these debut prints by punk-inspired London based artist/illustrator Richard Loveless. Now if that’s not the name of somebody destined for fame- what is?

These are from an edition of 100 prints, 1 colour on 310 gsm Somerset Satin White stock, 2 natural deckle/2 false deckle edge, size 18×24 inch, all signed and stamped with the ‘Loveless’ logo. The print is titled: ‘Nostalgia’, and demonstrates Loveless’ recognisable ‘etchy’ illustration style see more of his work here

dead big prints!

Well- not that big, A2 to be precise. Look no further than up-the-arts, for all your dead-celebrity printing needs. Or at least it seems that way at the moment, with ghost images of Amy still appearing on screens and now this Biggie image by France based PlayMoney on the rack, the studio is looking like a MOBO’s from the other side.

These 3 colour A2 prints are printed on Fabriano Accademia white 220gsm acid free stock, 4 guillotine cut edges.