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 >

My 2nd day at the Curwen Print Studio – this time working on a scene around the horses at Audley End House. A composite of several drawings from life over the last couple of months. Read More >

Felix’s nursery has just moved into new premises and I made them a new logo / modular illustration / info-graphic. The full version is to be used on signs and for other big display situations. The graphic is broken down into smaller components for use on uniforms, email signature, prospectus and stationery, etc. Read More >

This coming Saturday we’re turning the front two rooms of our house into a gallery – at 59 High Street, Saffron Walden, 10am – 4.30pm. Michelle will be selling her collages – originals and limited edition prints, including a new screen print by Up The Arts and a giclee/screen print by Jealous Print Studio. I’ll have copies of BUS STOP – my Curwen print of Walden Hight Street and the first run of LIGHT TRAFFIC ONLY, white tea towels and mugs decorated with the black type found on white village signposts. Read More >

China Mug – #2nd Edition

This is the first in a series of homeware and gift products featuring the typography found on white village sign posts. Older signs are cast in steel, later versions rivet individual metal letters onto wooden posts. The signs are slowly disappearing – they are vandalised, buried in hedges, destroyed in car accidents and inevitably replaced with their modern equivalent. Read More >

The Curwen Studio is an artist’s print studio, which has been creating limited editions since 1958. Artist’s have included Henry Moore, Barbara Hepworth, Graham Sutherland, Elisabeth Frink, Edward Bawden, Paula Rego, David Gentleman, Angie Lewin, Mark Hearld … and Rolf Harris (I love Rolf Harris). Read More >

“Vision is Now” Design Innovations Hall

Day trip to Munich for the ISPO Wintersports Trade Fair. Perhaps not surprisingly, a lot of environmental communication from brands, and the event itself, with a sustainability/innovation themed hall. Marketing stories have evolved from “how product is made” (ie. new technology and quality of construction) to “how our design knowledge is minimising environmental impact”. Read More >

A6 invite cards for CONSTRUCT & DE-CONSTRUCT show by Michelle Thompson & Mary Romer. Printed by Orange Reprographics in Covent Garden. Read More >

Lovely surprise in the post this morning. Research Studios have designed a calendar using a selection of their graphic fonts, including examples from work on ARENA magazine and Michael Mann’s Public Enemies. Read More >