A Celebration of August
London Design Festival 2010
31 Artists and Designers were asked to produce their own interpretation of a day in August as part of the London Design Festival 2010.
On the 22 August I was walking in the streets of Paris, where I live. Every other shop and restaurant was closed, with a hastily scribbled notice in the window: "Fermé pour congés" - Closed for holidays. Most were shut for the entire month of August. The shop where I had hoped to buy the paper to print this poster was closed for 6 whole weeks, until early September. Vive les vacances!
Printed with hand cut wood type on a 200 year old Stanhope press at the Atelier aux Lilas, Paris.
Printed on A1 size Zerkall 250gsm, 100% cotton, in an edition of 10
There are still a few posters left, priced £40. You can order online at www.belfortpress.com
Space to breathe
Winner of the 2008 Graphisme dans la Rue competition, Fontenay-Sous-Bois, France.
The festival invited poster submissions on the theme of the The City.
I still have a few copies left - do email me if you're interested in buying one. They are screen printed and measure 1.2 x 1.6m
A poster and programme proposal for the ballet of the Opera National de Paris.
The screenprinted poster wraps around the programme to form the cover.
Posters and flyers for the event in October 2009 where over 1000 people descended on Ratcliffe-on-Soar coal-fired power station to shut it down.
