Posts tagged print

8 Designers x 8 Typefaces in 88 pages. 8 Faces  – Out Wednesday.

I’ve seen the final version and it’s looking very fine. 

Alphabets by Tim Fishlock

Top: 
Shapeset alphabet. Overlapping colour compositions. Giclee print on 305g stock. Hand-embossed, numbered and signed. A limited edition.

Bottom Left:
Typeseat alphabet: Screen print. A limited edition of 300. (I beleive the text at the bottom names all of the chairs used).

Bottom right: 
A to Z : A print commissioned by the London Transport Museum for their ‘Mind the Map’ exhibition. Based on the iconic London Underground map.

More beautiful lettering work by graffiti writer and artist, Roid. 

3D artwork print from 8 Faces

Tomorrow sees the release of our 7th and penultimate artwork print, by Simon Walker.

Above (top) is a teaser of Simon’s unique artwork, with a sneak peek of his work in progress below. The type is made out of mouldable clay, Simon took us through his process for the forthcoming edition of 8 Faces magazine, here are some extracts:

“I’d been toying with the idea of making physical, three-dimensional type for a long time, but had never found the time — or more specifically the right project — to push it forward. I knew I wanted to make big, heavy letters out of something like clay, thinking the result would mimic the kind of roughened, hand-rendered lettering I produce on the computer, even though I’d never actually worked with clay before.

Plastalina is pretty hard straight out of the wrapper, and has to be vigorously massaged between your fingers in order to get it to play nice. Then there were all the unavoidable grease-stains from the clay that kept getting smudged onto my nice clean backboard. I’d rested in the idea that I’d photoshop out any particularly conspicuous stains, as well as my penciled guidelines, but found in the end that a lot of the stray marks actually reinforced the handmade aspect of the piece, so I left most of them in.”

And we’re very pleased he did, the work looks fantastic. We have less than 50 on offer, so be quick! Visit 8faces.com this Wednesday (17th April) at 4pm BST.

The full interview with Simon Walker will appear in 8 Faces magazine #6, due out soon.

Sketchy Characters

I spent an enjoyable day yesterday re-learning how to screen print at London’s ‘Print Club’.

As a test print I decided to use some of my sketchbook letters and experiment with a few types of paper, including this lovely gold and silver.

The one-day course was very good, running through everything; preparing your artwork, making your positives, coating your screen, printing your work and finally removing your stencil. Well recommended!

8 Faces #6 is coming…

 If you could only use eight typefaces for the rest of your life, which would you choose? 

8 Faces Magazine poses this question (and many others) to eight leading designers from the fields of web design, print design, illustration, and of course type design itself.

If you’ve been waiting patiently for the next issue, you’ll be excited to know it goes to print next week and will be ready by the end of April.  

Eighty-eight pages of in-depth interviews, critical essays, and inspiration from the very best in the business.

Printed on heavy stock with a foil-blocked cover, each issue is a true collector’s item and 8 Faces will be more at home on your bookshelf than in your magazine rack.  Who said print is dead?

Chance favors only the prepared mind

This latest 8 Faces artwork print is by Berlin based, Laura Serra, and showcases her unique style of pencil lettering and ink splatter. Laura chose this adage for her poster by Louis Pasteur the French microbiologist and chemist who originally conceived the idea of battling germs to defeat disease.

If your mind is prepared you may be able to grab one of these limited edition A3 (297mm x 420mm) prints as they go on sale shortly, at 4pm GMT today. There are less than 50 left.

Smoking letters

There’s a liquid, smokey feel to these letters, produced by London based illustrator and artist Von. This typographic style is the result of hand drawing and inking to introduce some lovely details. These are then scanned and arranged digitally to create the final composition  The ethereal nature of the work is inspired by Bjork lyrics.

The Voice of all the Gods - New work by Seb Lester

Over the last couple of months Seb has taken a break from his client work to focus on some personal prints. I’ve been in contact with him, planning an interview for 8 Faces magazine (stay tuned for details), so when he shared a sneak peak of this piece last week, I was wowed: The curves, the letterforms, the contrast of the metallic ink and matt paper, were stunning.
The bold words are taken from Shakespeare’s ‘Loves Labours Lost.’ 

I first became aware of Seb’s work in 2010 after he’d left Monotype, where he’d been working as Senior Type designer for many years. I bought one of his prints, “Peace”, which arrived with my address penned in beautiful calligraphic script on the label.

Yesterday he released three major new pieces. This is the first of them that I’ll be posting about.

‘The Voice of all the Gods’

Signed limited edition screen print, edition of 100, 594 X 420 mm (A2), £75. 
Metallic Gold ink on black Plike art paper, 330gsm.

Dynamic Numbers

In keeping with the ‘retro’ theme, here are a couple of simple yet stunning posters I came across. Their diagonal lines cut through the flat colours and jump across the surface of the posters.

Left: From ‘3 Exhibitions’, 30 Years of MIT by Jacqueline Casey, 1985. Jacqueline was strongly influenced by Swiss designers and the International Style while designing for MIT’s Design Services Office, which she later went on to direct. 

Right: Five British Graphic Designers. There’s not much out there to corroborate the provenance of this striking design: sources suggest it’s a 1969 design by Studio Coppola, Milan.

Thanks to Tyographie for originally posting the Five Designers poster.