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One vanishing art that can still be studied in the interstices of the assault of global retail is vernacular typography. All over the world, there are cities and towns that retain their rich traditions of vernacular signage. Unfortunately, the fate of these typographic havens is being threatened by the uniformity of corporate advertising, which ignores and subverts [...]
Chris works as freelance illustrator. His personal work deals largely with self initiated narrative and story telling. Having self published two books “The Spinners” 2003 and “Box” 2005, he is now working on a new book as well as teaching illustration. Client List : Nero Magazine (IT) Le Gun Magazine Poetry Magazine (USA) Bad Idea [...]
Francesco Franchi is the art director for IL-Intelligence in Lifestyle, the monthly magazine of Il Sole 24 ORE, Italy’s leading financial daily.”Embracing new languages in journalism”, Franchi is a true master of combining representation and interpretation, creating a visual form that is as graphic as it is narrative, as entertaining as it is informative. His work has [...]
Filmed at Plymouth University this is a wonderful look at one of the few remaining movable type print workshops in the UK. Not sure what letterpress is, Wikepedia helps us out: Letterpress printing is relief printing of text and image using a press with a “type-high bed” printing press and movable type, in which a [...]
