Brick Lane

Reverting to Type

I visited Reverting To Type is at Standpoint Gallery, 45 Coronet Street, Hoxton, London N1 6HD today. Oh what a lovely show! The exhibition is curated by Graham Bignell of New North Press and graphic designer Richard Ardagh and features prints and publications by progressive practitioners from around the world. The show ends tomorrow.

London Design Festival

The London Design Festival is on until 26th September. This delightful poster is from the Victoria & Albert Museum which is at the hub of the festival this year.

Twickenham Carnival

Twickenham Carnival, Sunday 13th June. The Carnival Parade sets off from York House at 12 noon and then proceeds to Orleans House for The Carnival Village.

The lovely poster design is by We Made This. They researched old posters from the London Borough of Richmond archive to arrive at this typographic beauty which has been printed using original woodblock and metal letterpress by New North Press.

Band of Skulls

baby darling doll face honey

Band of Skulls

Typographic Love

Kiss Kiss

London Typography

Mind the wires

Feltbug is experiencing a few technical problems which are hopefully going to be resolved very soon.

Everything I saw when I came out of the museum

Milk Moustaches

Delphiniums For Everyone

Letterpress Love

SORT had a great collection of blocks for printing and this is the notebook I printed with my name. I hope to do more letterpress some day - it is a very beautiful art. I love the way the letters and images are embossed in the card.

Firefly Press

Society of Revisionist Typographers

Another event which is part of the London Design Festival is the pop-up letterpress studio of the Society of Revisionist Typographers , SORT, which is located in the Newburgh Quarter off Carnaby Street. The shop will be there until Sunday 27th September. All the workshops are fully booked but I did get the opportunity to print a notebook. It is a really inspiring place and well worth a visit. If you are not in London you can purchase items of Typographic beauty from the SORT etsy shop.

Hammersmith

A few things that caught my eye in Hammersmith this afternoon. This very charming and beautifully dressed young man called Andre agreed to have his photograph taken, outside the second hand clothing store, Traid, textile recycling for aid and international development. A Sartorialist moment :)

Poor. Old. Tired. Horse.

Lilian Lijn, Sky Never Stops 1965

Institute of Contemporary Arts : Visual Art : Poor. Old. Tired. Horse.: Exhibiting artists: Vito Acconci, Carl Andre, Anna Barham, Matthew Brannon, Henri Chopin, Ian Hamilton Finlay, Alasdair Gray, Philip Guston, David Hockney, Karl Holmqvist, Dom Sylvester Houédard, Janice Kerbel, Christopher Knowles, Ferdinand Kriwet, Liliane Lijn, Robert Smithson, Frances Stark and Sue Tompkins until 23 August.

Market Coffee House

If you are in Spitalfields this is a great place to stop for some light refreshment. The Market Coffee House, 50-52 Brushfield Street, London E1. They have a flickr site too.

This lovely signage is painted on the building next door to the cafe.

Ray Johnson

Ray Johnson

Raven Row’s inaugural exhibition is the first large UK show of the collages and mailings of New York artist Ray Johnson (1927–1995). Johnson used radical means to construct and distribute images, inadvertently inventing the ‘mail art movement’. He made art out of social life – both real and imagined – gathering celebrities, the art world, and friends into his work.

Word to Mother

WTM Word to Mother - IMG_9682 copy, originally uploaded by Wallkandy.net.

Lost For Words is the latest exhibition by Word To Mother, the show ends on Sunday. It is on at the Stolen Space gallery, Old Truman Brewery. You can see the full set of works here.