TYPEJOCKEYS - TYPO PAGE.

Over the last week or so I've been getting my teeth stuck into some typography and checking out some new and wonderful typographers. One gem in particular that caught my eye was the guys at Typejockeys, a typography and typeface design company based in Vienna, Austria. These appealed to me more then any others as they use quite a lot of hand generated type as well as digital stuff sometimes combining the two together.Cheeky.

After five years of nothing a new issue of Typo Page has finally been produced with Typejockeys designing the cover. The completely hand generated piece was made using a rubber plate, photographed and then coloured. Nothing digital whatsoever. Really nice touch.

The images above are some of the concept art first thought up for the initial cover. I'm not so keen on the colour use and bubbly type. They were wanting to create a plastic toy world with fitted hand lettering that could be produced as a 3-D rubber plate. I think the idea is pretty sweet but not very feasible, in saying this I'd definitely buy it because of the concept and originality behind it. 

I think the little thumbnail versions seem to have more character about them then the finished versions. I often find in my own work I seem to tighten up when it comes to producing final pieces and think you can tell that these have done the same.

TAKE A LOOK.

CHRIS DRURY.

All My Heroes Are Undead, an exhibition by Chris Drury is being shown in Common Bar tucked away in one of the many side streets of Northern Quarter until January 2011.

Drury graduated from Salford Uni and since then has worked for many highly renowned clients such as Playstation, Adidas, Diesel, Ninja Tune, Grand Central, Jockey Slut and High Voltage to name a few. Other then Common he's contributed to exhibitions in Magma, Eat the Beat in Bristol and Smudge Gallery in London.

This is Drury's debut at Common, showing off a vile, gruesome but highly lovable gallery of his work. You can see that his work is heavily influenced by 1980's horror films and comic book art especially with his use of vibrant, block colours outlined in a heavy but confident brush stroke. He uses a variety of media and techniques but his work here focuses on working with wet media. I like the ideas behind his work and it's given me a lot of inspiration for a personal project I'm doing that can be linked with an on going brief. Cheers Chris!

I'd recommend heading down to Common as they've always got something interesting on the walls to gorpe at and equally as important a selection of many a fine ale and beverages.

CT.

CT is an Italian graffiti artist that puts a modern and exciting twist when it comes to putting paint on a wall. Originating from Torino, a town containing a large history in typography and lettering is clearly an influence that's evident in his work. He puts a crisp and slight constructivist style to his art. I wouldn't usually expect to see work so slick and "graphicky" being made in this media which is an unusual and exciting difference from his work to others.

CHECK HIM.

SOONINTOKYO.

Quirky little website full of weird and wonderful giffs by soonintokyo (collaborated with Serge Seidlitz on a previous post) with some funky tunes to accompany.

I'm not an artist

Check it.

JACK TEAGLE & BEN NEWMAN.

I was back home this weekend and decided to pop into Traveling Man to come across these beauties. The images below were from a set of short (possibly screen printed) comics by artists Jack Teagle and Ben Newman.

Each booklet was crammed full of colour and life containing various little beasties. The use of creative and well thought about cropping and composition opened my eyes to what makes a successful image.

The limited use of colour in Ben Newman's work made me consider that less is more. It comes across that the colour use is equally as important as the illustraions themselves. Sometimes in my own work I seem to forget this and the chosen colours are more of an after thought. I need to prioritise colour more from now on.

Jack Teagle

Ben Newman

JEREMY IS COMPLETE.

So after a few wrong stitches, tears and stuffing mishaps Jeremy is finally finished. The screen printed front and back panels worked a treat on the weird leather like material and felt good to be back in the print room. Been far too long. Made a few mistakes when stitching the parts together with some tight spots but that was expected. Had to do a few little bits by hand but the majority was done on the sewing machine.It went much smoother then i first predicted but definitely think this was down to me making the smaller prototype earlier on. If I was to reproduce more of these I think I'd be much more time efficient and simpler to create templates/nets for the material so that they were all scaled the same and looked professional. Altogether pretty happy with it.

As soon as I get it back from marking I'll take some better pictures in the studio using my SLR as appose to my phone.

Finished version.

Rough markings of body parts.

Pieces cut out ready to be stitched and stuffed.

Panels were stitched inside out with gaps cut through the fur to reveal.

Back branding panel.

Finished stuffed toy from the back.

ELISAVA SCHOOL OF DESIGN.

A collaboration with soonintokyo, made for Barcelona school of design. Here are the books and posters that Serge Seidlitz illustrated. Pretty awesome.