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Zine workshops @ De La Warr Pavilion
Following on from my recent visit to the Hotseat at the University of Gloucester, where I took part in introducing the BA Graphic students to the world of zines, I am planning to give a series of zine-making workshops to be held over the coming months at the De La Warr Pavilion. The zine workshops are…
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Hotseat @ University of Gloucestershire
I was put in the “Hotseat” this week as I gave a lecture to the BA Graphic Design students at the University of Gloucestershire. I was the last speaker of 10 visiting the students in the hotseat programme. The third year students had created the hotseat project to document the visiting lectures, providing notes to the…
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Revolution Graffiti – Street Art of the New Egypt
At the end of last year I was pleased to be asked to write the forward to Mia Gröndahl’s excellent forthcoming book Revolution Graffiti – Street Art of the New Egypt. Revolutionary graffiti and in particular its recent flourishing in countries such as Egypt, Libya and Tunisia is something that I’ve long been fascinated with…
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Extramuros – Julien Seth Malland
Extramuros (Outside of the Walls) is the new and wonderful book by Seth the Global Painter – who I recently featured in Varoom Magazine. I wanted to give the book a plug not least because I wrote the introduction to it! Seth aka Julien Malland is an artist, traveller and documenter that I’ve been lucky…
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Varoom Magazine 20 – Interesni Kazki
Following on my regualar editorial contributions to Varoom magazine I recently wrote a small piece for the latest issue which takes the theme of “Muse”. My interpretation of “muse” was to take inspiration from dreams and the world of imagination, which made me think of the fantastic work of Interesni Kazki, the Ukranian street art duo…
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Varoom Magazine 19 – Seth the Global Painter
Varoom is a large format magazine produced in association with the UK’s Association of Illustrators and is full of in depth articles about contemporary illustration. I’m a big fan of the magazine especially in its new newspaper format and am pleased to have been asked to become a contributing editor to it. The theme of…
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The Rake
In an attempt to update my blog after a very busy few months, here is a story from earlier this year.. The Rake is an international sartorial magazine which just happens to be stylishly art directed by my friend Sam Clark. Earlier this year The Rake commissioned me to write a piece about graffiti and…
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Nuart 2012
Coming up soon.. I’m pleased to have been invited to talk at Nuart Plus – a range of discussions which accompanies the highly regarded International street art festival Nuart which is held annually in Stavanger, Norway. Its been a few years since I last attended so I’m looking forward to seeing all the new street…
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Lambe Lambe T-shirts
Finally I have a set of completed T-shirts from a design project that began last year and in some ways has been around seven years in the making! Lambe lambe is the name given to a type of woodtype poster printing known principally in Sao Paulo, Brazil and now only survives in one workshop –…