Emanuelle Enchanted was a collaborative typography project conducted by my fellow students and I during our MA course at the London College of Printing in 2004. The two-day project was based on a brief by tutor Paul McNeil that instructed us to design selected extracts from experimental theatre company Forced Entertainment’s play of the same name. The results, when seen as a whole are pretty impressive, and I’m reminded of how lucky I was at the time to be surrounded by so many talented individuals.
Here’s a beautiful set of sexy “illuminated” letters designed by Airside for Wallpaper‘s Sex & Art issue. Graphic, in both senses of the word. You can find the backstory, sketches, and more visuals on Airside’s Blog.
Montreal artist (and Four Minutes to Midnight contributor) Kevin Ledo is probably better known for his beautiful and seductive portrait paintings, but it turns out he’s a bad ass street artist as well!
I’m really excited to be a part of Gute Seiten, and will hopefully soon be contributing content to the site about the zine scene in Canada for them. So, if you have some interesting projects you want European indie publishers to know about, hit me up.
Ravenswing was a great success today and Cat and I really enjoyed our time in Ottawa. Many thanks to the beautiful, hard working people who put it all together and to Colin for being a great host and table mate. To be honest, I was pleasantly surprised by the diversity and enthusiasm of the crowd. My perception of Ottawa as a sleepy government town has certainly shifted a bit.
I was happy to see fellow Montreal zinester Lisa Hoffman there with a ton of new work on display and reconnect with fellow Concordia grad Catherine Pearce who’s been making some beautiful jewelry pieces.
Sincere thanks to everyone who put down some hard earned cash to pick up a zine or a poster today. I’d love to know what you think of them, so please feel free to contact me. We’ll definitely be back again next year, hopefully with a new issue in tow.
To all our friends in Ottawa, Catherine and I will be in town on Sunday (May 24) at the Ravenswing Craft and Zine Fair alongside Ottawa Comics guru Colin White. The fair is held in Minto park, between Elgin & Cartier and Gilmour & Lewis. The weather promises to be good, so it should be a lot of fun.
Along with copies of the zine, I’ll have a series of art posters for sale featuring some new (and some old) work. I’ll post pics soon, but if you’re in the neighbourhood, come by for first dibs.
“To me the different career categories are really just false creations of art schools, the people who thought up careers. It’s all one big conversation I’m trying to engage in, there are different parts to the conversation, different ways of talking, short talks and long deep private talks, but it’s all the attempt to communicate, to not be alone, to be a part of things.”
Monday May 11th 2009, 11:17 pm
Filed under: miscellaneous
I’ve been slavishly waiting for this book from Tomato‘s John Warwicker to be published for a long time now. After patiently waiting for about a year(!) for my pre-order to be filled by Amazon, I contacted John asking him about the state of the project. He kindly explained that there were complications with the publisher, but that things were being worked out and that the book would be available in the near future. That was over a year ago. But now it seems that, according to Tomato’s website, it’s actually true! The Floating World: Ukiyo-e will be published this September by Steidl Publishing and I’m pretty sure it’ll be worth the wait…
