03/09/10

Bristol Cycle Festival | Exhibition

We are pleased to be involved in this exhibition, opening on the 10th and running for two weeks at the Howies Gallery above their shop in Bristol. The show coincides with the first Bristol Cycle Festival.

On show will be the 100 cycling caps from the Thinking Caps project, which will be auctioned of to raise money for the Bristol Bike Project and the Bristol Bike Project will themselves be exhibiting a collection of photographs and illustrations. The brilliant Bone Shaker magazine will be exhibiting a collection of work from its contributors. Also work from Peskimo, No Gears and ourselves.

A very bicycle themed event with lots going on. We will be there at the opening on the 10th so come along and say hello.

30/06/10

Studio Space One | Vertigo Series

Producing this punchy series of limited edition screen prints for Sam Gray from Studio Space One was a highly satisfying experience on all accounts. The clean design and solid colour pallet made for a final set of prints which hold the theme of Vertigo together in a neat, clean and thoughtful series.

We printed this 2 Colour (Black and Yellow 012u) series 4 up on A1 270gsm GFSmith Colorplan Bright White Acid Free stock, then finished them down to 4 X A3 limited editions of 10 Screen Prints.

08/06/10

AnyForty Exhibition

AnyForty have pulled together 19 incredible illustrators all working with a restricted 4 colour pallet and put together an event not to be missed. It kicks of this friday evening at Start The Bus in Bristol. Come get involved if you are in the area. We are printing up a very special limited run of 25, 123 Klan tees which will be on sale for £25 at the event. All other artworks will be for sale at the very reasonable price of £10 with all profits going to the local youth charity, Knowle West Media Centre. 

Havana Club are going to support the event and provide some lovely booze for you lucky invitees.

To come to the friday night private showing all you need to do is print out this image of the flyer, save it on your phone as a pic or get it tattooed on your face.

You can see a little taster video here

07/05/10

BRIGHTON FREAKSHOW | Exhibition

THE FREAKSHOW WENT OFF!

Whoever of you out there that made it down for the opening night would have been witness, and as we managed the drive from Bath, we too saw the wall-to-wall going off that went off.

Really excellent turnout to a really excellent show, and one that we are really proud to have been involved in.  We printed prices for eight of the artists involved, these being illustration wizards:

Megamunden

Johnny Mac

Luke Insect

Elliott Grubb

Chris Ede

Velvet Spectrum &

Tom Burden.

The range of pieces was diverse, and each offered a different challenge in terms of separation and print.  We were stoked on the results of everything going out the door, and double stoked when seeing everything framed and on the wall amongst the rest of show at St Peter's Church in Brighton.

Until the opening night we had only met with Megamunden in person, so making it down was a fine opportunity to meet with everyone else involved.  We sure reckon these guys and girls have a good thing going on down South, and strongly recommend dropping by the show whilst you can.  It's running every Saturday until near the end of the month, so pen it on your calendar with indelible ink.

Brighton Freakshow

WhiteDuck Freakshow flickr set

26/04/10

Brighton Freakshow

Brighton Freakshow is a carefully hand selected illustration show exhibiting some of Brighton's finest image making talent. Appropriately housed in the epic setting of St. Peters Church, Freakshow will form part of the 2010 Open House Festival in Brighton, UK.

The exhibition is curated by

Johnny McCulloch &

Mega Munden.

The Exhibition will run every saturday throughout May between 10am and 5.30pm.

14/04/10

WhiteDuck | Elliott Grubb Production video

Filmed on my iphone, this very rudimentary video shows a little bit of the Screen Print process down at WhiteDuck.

This print along with lots of other lovely work is available to buy from Elliott's online shop.

www.anotherexample.net

11/04/10

Elliott Grubb | A to B

A beautiful double sided 1 colour print on Ebony 270gsm GFSmith Colorplan stock.

We printed this edition for the very talented Elliott Grubb (aka Another Example) for the forth coming A to B exhibition at the Bird Box Gallery in Hove.

I made a short video of WhiteDuck in screen print action during production of this edition. Check it out here. (I will try and upload it onto the blog properly soon)

24/03/10

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...

Click below

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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.

19/03/10

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.

19/03/10

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!

03/03/10

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.

02/03/10

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.

25/02/10

30 Seconds To Mars | Glasgow show poster

This was the first of the 30 Seconds To Mars posters to be printed. 

Pretty straight forward, but a very nice finished piece.

Only two colour, but the red uses a tidy gradient in the background.  See, there it is!

Deluxe.

08/02/10

Alfa X Darkotics | sneek peek

A wee sneeky peek at the forth coming Darkotics X Alfa show at Detour in Bath.  We produced some lovely 4 colour paper and t-shirt prints, which in turn matched the graphics on some awesome boards.  

Watch out for an update and more photos after the show ...

18/01/10

Howard Jones | Special edition CD

We were blown away by the scope of this album project for Howard Jones.

Hush Creative approached us with the concept of printing onto 13 colours of heavy Colorplan stock with 12 different images in 12 corresponding colours of ink!

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Click through below for more info, and to get a better idea of the finished piece.

04/12/09

Ede X MegaMunden | V & IV

Mouth wateringly beautifull print, Quite literally hot of the flat bed….. Big thanks to Ollie Munden and Chris Ede for the chance to print these lovely’s….
1 colour screen print ( process black through a 120 mesh screen) on 270gsm Bright White GF Smith Colorplan acid free archival stock.

www.chrisede.net
Ede X MegaMunden

 

20/11/09

D&AD | Pixels at dawn

This poster was printed for an London event hosted by D&AD. The design is by Magpie Studio. It is a 3 colour print on 270gsm Smoke Colorplan stock. See more for a rundown on the event.....

30/09/09

McFaul Studio | 5 Year Print

We were commissioned to print this 4-colour edition for the incredible McFaul Studio to celebrate 5 years of their excellence.

The combination of this wicked detailed design and print beyond perfection has resulted in a print that jumps off the page and knocks you flying!

They have headed off to New York with a handful of artists proofs before we produce the limited edition run of 50.

Soon they will be available to buy online, so keep an eye on the McFaul blog for details. Buy one, celebrate, and enjoy.

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17/02/09

Nicky Snow | Lolita

A seven colour wonder, designed by Bath local artist, Nicky Snow. Quite a technical print in the end - 4 col process + 2 spot colours and a spot metallic. BOSH! 

Watch for the Nicky Snow website launch soon (we'll be posting when live).