A day at The Curwen Studio yesterday printing Improvised Structures. The print is a series of vignettes from pen and ink drawings made in the late Summer and Autumn. Children’s camps, rope swings, fencing and barriers built from materials to hand. Read More >
Over the Summer I started researching a personal project around non-designer forced invention – constructions and objects made to fulfill a need using only those materials immediately to hand. For example, a shelter or den created by kids in a wood using branches and sticks. Read More >
Wednesday evening saw the launch party for a show of graphic work based around the Wikileaks threads. It’s a group show with contributions from a variety of artists, illustrators and designers held at The Book Club in Shoreditch. Read More >
Next Wednesday June 29th we are taking part in a show organised by Jamie Balliu of UP Creatives and Jeff Knowles of Planning Unit at The Book Club in Shoreditch. Information is Currency is a Wikileaks themed group exhibition featuring work by a variety of designers, artists and image makers including Barnbrook > We Buy Your Kids > Erkut Terliksiz > Suki Dhanda > David Shillinglaw > Marco Ammannati > Nic Zoids > 10-collective > Apropos > Studio NMO > and others. There will be guest speakers and DJs. No invite or RSVP required so come along if you fancy it. Read More >
For the next two weeks (18/19th & 25/26 June) Michelle and I are taking part in the Saffron Walden Arts Trust open studios.
Michelle has some new original collages and her “Flight” print with Jealous Studios will be available at the very reasonable price of £60. I’m showing prints and LIGHT TRAFFIC ONLY cups and tea towels. While limited stocks last our WORK/PLAY newspaper will be available… ask nicely and you might get one. It will be great – you should come.
Apropos is ten years old and I’ve been looking for a way to commemorate our (my) spectacular (skin-of-the-teeth) rise to fame and success (small mention in CR once) – in fact I’ve been looking for so long we’re now eleven years old.
Luckily, back in February I watched a presentation by Ben Terrett of The Newspaper Club at the Guardian Hacks SXSW weekend. Newspaper Club offers customers a simple and affordable way to design and print their own newspaper using the spare capacity on tabloid presses. Read More >
A series of studio images by Richard Legge. I share the studio with my partner Michelle Thompson. The space covers two rooms above a 1930′s car showroom on the High Street in Saffron Walden. Read More >
This weekend I took part in the Guardian Hacks SXSW event – a gathering of 100 programmers, coders, journalists and designers at the Guardian’s offices in King’s Cross. Delegates were given a loose brief/challenge – to create a tool with journalistic potential, possibly using information from social media, possibly for use at the South by South West (SXSW) festival in Austin. Read More >
59HighStreet.com is the address of our online shop, where you can buy limited edition prints by Gareth Wild and Michelle Thompson. Also LIGHT TRAFFIC ONLY products.
Our next OPEN DAY will be on Saturday November 27th (Private View Thursday 25th) – please visit the store for more details.
In addition to new work by Michelle and myself, we will also be showing a series of landscapes by local photographer Richard Legge…AND prints by illustrator David Sparshott. Read More >
Into Shoreditch for the launch of the first Anti-Design Festival. A nine day creative forum offering a diverse program of events, happenings and discussions. The manifesto claims that design has become morally, and consequently creatively, bankrupt. Read More >