Alan Kitchin, Ian Anderson & Danny Leigh Talk's

Alan Kitchin, Ian Anderson & Danny Leigh Talk's

Obtained a ticket for the Print Festival talk and had a great day and come out feeling very inspired and educated from a number of creatives and professionals who approach and appreciate a range of subjects, showing how multiple disciplines can come together to create a very well informed delivery of subjects.

The overall theme was obviously print so it was nice to hear such a varied number of opinions from different practitioners and has certainly informed my thoughts too the process.  I took a number of notes and formed a few opinions from them to take foreword. 

Ian Anderson

As long as the outcome is off screen Ian considers the outcome as print based, this is his focus on the print process. Anything away from the screen. 

The process doesn't have to be as organic and messy as screen-printing, letterpress or purely hand on crafts.

Screen print is now trying to replicate digital print, losing its character it once had, its tactility within imperfections and the idea of happy accidents, I fully agree with this statements and the accidents from slight bleeds too offsets and miss registrations is what makes this process so appealing to me. 

The idea of controlling a glitch and the idea of using mistakes within even digital print process's creates a repurposing of these past print happy accidents. 

Less is more is an excuse for minimal thought process and asthetic application, I fully agree here I used too be very minimal in my approach but now I like too add a variety of process's and visuals as I feel each individual entity can strengthen a whole design outcome. 

Repurpose a design output to your own, add your own technique to screen printing, im trying this at current with the incorporation of digital screen printing, merging digital and screen printing together through a lot of my work. 

Danny Leigh

Talking about film posters and there context.

1983 Fly posters pasted on boards on abandoned London houses, creating a certain aesthetic within run down areas in London. 

Original film posters focused on promoting an experience, not snapshots of the scenes of the film. I agree with this, theres an element of interaction lost within poster design and I feel its through the detachment through digital technologies. 

1950s introduced the idea of taglines bringing in marketing techniques taking it away from been pure visuals and started to apply the use of language and added context to support the visuals, showing real thought process's in every stage of making a poster. 

Alan Kitchin

This talk will go on to influence one of my most substantial projects within EP. See here.

His ideas on if he doesnt own it he makes it resonates with how I want to make a laser cut typeface that shows the limitations of letterpress. 

Influenced by the Bahaus. 

Albertus is the most used typeface, consider this when repurposing a typeface synonymous with the mass distribution of information as an expansion of my COP within EP.

Multiple collaborations with Monotype, showing there appreciation too there origins through the collaboration with an artist that uses the origins of type distribution as his sole practice.

Got his email to send him my letterpress project and a signed book too:)