A Beautiful Machine | WhiteDuck

We were really excited to get involved in this event, A Beautiful Machine, coming courtesy of Howies & McFaul Studio.  For those of you who haven't seen the vast amount of tweeting and publicity surrounding this, the brief was simply "produce a piece of art based around the words A Beautiful Machine that isn't bigger than A2 and needs to be framed".  Or at least that's a summing up.

Anyway, our 4 colour print is based around a photograph taken in Bristol during a skid comp, possibly one of the more exhilarating occasions one spends on his or her beautiful machine.

We wanted to demonstrate with this edition some of the finer effects and nuances that screen print can achieve.  It runs like this...

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We're really happy with our print, but this will be only one amongst some 50 exhibiting artists!  The event runs for two weeks, so check the blog for info on how, where & when to check it out.

Matt Taylor | A Beautiful Machine

Beautiful indeed... We printed this edition of 24, 1 colour lovely's for Brighton based illustrator Matt Taylor. It will be for sale at the forth coming 'A Beautiful Machine' event at the Howies shop in Bristol next week.

A Beautiful Machine | McFaulStudio | howies

When the spirits are low, when the day appears dark, when work becomes monotonous, when hope hardly seems worth having, just mount a bicycle and go for a spin down the road, without thought on anything but the ride.

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle wrote that – oh so right!

Beginning Friday March 26th McFaulStudio and howies have curated a two-week event of art, talk and ride based above the howies store in Bristol. We have reached out to those who ride, those who allow us to ride…and those who want us to ride, bringing us all together in a carnival of bicycle. Those who design and those who draw, those who paint or shoot or sew, those who talk or make, those who fix and those who nurture are all involved as they all share a love of A Beautiful Machine.

Over 50 artists from around the Globe. 15 incredible speakers. 1 Bicycle treasure hunt, 1 rather special Bicycle auction and 1 Critical Mass. Two weeks in Bristol. A lot of fun.

Let the good times roll!

Hunting Lodge | NoirFun

We printed some great tee's for Hunting Lodge's Spring 2010 NoirFun collection. Designed by Mark James these tees are really very nice indeed. If you cant make it to the Hunting Lodge shop in Norway no worries because they are now up for sale on the Hunting Lodge online shop I especially liked the 'Lobstar' design.

There is a nice post on the Hunting Lodge blog showing the tee's in store.

Also featured on HighSnobriety.

30 Seconds To Mars | Dusseldorf show poster

What a doozy. We were stoked to print this poster, firstly because it came courtesy of well respected poster artist Todd Slater, and secondly because it used a number of great techniques in the one image.

Technique 1 / split fountain from yellow to red. Deluxe.

Technique 2 / super fine bitmap for the black smoke. Tidy.

Technique 3 / what you can't see in these photos is the slightly metallic varnish layer that star-studs the black and carries the name and symbols of the artist. Sublime.

Technique 4 / transparent bitmap dove. Started off with a transparency of 75%, which proved to be too subtle, then worked our way up to around 35-40%. Beautiful.

Easily one of the most enjoyable prints we have produced.

30 SECONDS TO MARS | PARIS SHOW POSTER

This was the second of the 30 Seconds To Mars posters we printed.  

Straight forward 3 colour artwork separation and print, but none the less beautiful for it.

Look solid.  Look fine.