Gareth Wild and Michelle Thompson are an East Anglian graphic designer and illustrator, who live on the web at 59highstreet.com. They’ve come up with a way to commemorate the beautiful old village signs that are slowly disappearing from our lanes and hedgerows.
There’s such music in those village names. Ickleton. Elsenham. Sewards End.
Now you can own [...]
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Village typography
July 9th, 2010 1 Comment
Norwich in London
June 21st, 2010 No Comments
If you are a Londoner who wishes they were by the seaside then the exhibition opening at the Bankside Gallery tomorrow night is for you. Norwich Printmakers at Bankside Gallery runs for a week only, 22nd – 27th June. There will be 33 printmakers from the Norwich area there, many exhibiting in London for the [...]
Tags: Bankside Gallery · printmaking
Purple Podded Peas
December 12th, 2009 1 Comment
Celia Hart is a printmaker and illustrator born and bred in East Anglia. She translates the world around her into block prints in hazy colours reminiscent of old book illustrations, as well as blogging about cosy studio life and the rich harvest of her walled garden.
She edits out the sad things of life away [...]
Tags: block prints · celia hart · gardening · magic cochin · printmaking
St Jude’s Christmas Show
December 4th, 2009 No Comments
St Jude’s in Itteringham are opening their Christmas show with mulled wine, mince pies and a glorious exhibition of prints.
Felbrigg Hall by Ed Kluz is one of the standout pieces for me in the online preview – part collage, part painting and full of joyful colour, it’s one of a collection of images of eccentric [...]
Tags: christmas presents · printmaking · st judes
Rika Newcombe
August 4th, 2009 No Comments
Apologies for the week of silence – I had the flu and during the course of it they took out my brains and replaced them with porridge. It’s nice to be able to more or less think again.
Meanwhile I wanted to point to the work of Cambridge based artist and printmaker Rika Newcombe, who was [...]
Tags: printmaking · rika newcombe · taxonomy
Reynolds Stone
June 29th, 2009 1 Comment
Reynolds Stone was a hugely talented engraver who spent much of his adult life in East Anglia, staying on after a degree at Cambridge to be an unofficial apprentice at the Cambridge University Press and experimenting with engraving. A story quoted on his official website goes that he met Eric Gill on a train, who [...]
Tags: Bristish talent · east anglia · penguin books design · reynolds stone · times logo · wood engraving
Norfolk Open Studios
May 11th, 2009 No Comments
All over Norfolk artists are cleaning up their studios and finishing work in preparation for Norfolk Open Studios which runs 16 – 31st May. More than 250 artists all across the county are taking part, from Downham Market in the West to Great Yarmouth in the East and Wells to Diss on the north south [...]
Tags: art · art shopping · artists · ceramics · craft · downham market · norfolk open studios · norwich · painting · photography · sculpture · studio visits
life.com
April 12th, 2009 No Comments
Under the that wonderfully evocative URL, Life magazine has put its photo archive online. There are photos of everything both great and ordinary, from the early years of the twentieth century onwards.
It’s a great resource for anyone interested in local history, twentieth century fashion, architecture, design, and just how life was lived. There are also [...]
Tags: 1920s · 1930s · art · culture · design · east anglia · history · life · life magazine · photography · photos · pictures · social history
Typoretum
March 28th, 2009 1 Comment
The other day I fetched up in the lovely market town of Coggeshall in Essex to meet Justin Knopp of Typoretum about doing some bespoke letterpress work.
Walking into the studio is like stepping back eighty years or so, and everywhere your eye settles in the cramped space there is something interesting to look at. Four presses are [...]
Tags: bespoke · coggeshall · custom · garamond · greetings cards · letterpress · printed cards · printing · stationary · type · Typography · typoretum