This month we’re proud to present a selection of poster projects from the talented members of our community. From linocut images to identify creatures from the animal-world, to political statements and typographic experiments, our members have used the poster format to cover a wide range of themes and materials.
Katya Slobodskaia: You Better Remember My Name
Katya Slobodskaia describes You Better Remember My Name as “a bit of a scream-into-a-void poster”. In a reality where social media is constantly exploding with content and artists’ worth is determined by the number of likes and shares, it is easy to get lost in the endless flow of work and hard to get one’s priorities straight. Especially for young individuals who have only started looking for their visual voice and establishing their practice, going unnoticed can be harmful and feel a bit like banging your head against the wall. The poster is a scream to the faceless crowd and to the author themself. The visual language of the piece is borrowed from the radioactive caution signs and barrier tapes, and is complimented with barely readable bold typography.
Filippos Fragkogiannis: Poster series set in Gangster Grotesk
Filippos Fragkogiannis designed a series of black and white posters with typographical messages. These self-initiated posters straightforwardly pose challenging questions to the viewer, complementing the corresponding statements captured with the feeling of the accomplished and the inevitable. These posters were designed exclusively using the Gangster Grotesk font, designed by French designer Adrien Midzic of Pizza Typefaces, for the Fresh Fonts newsletter, by Noemi Stauffer. The font is an ode to the beauty of the contrast between typography and people. Therefore, it was the ideal “tool” for these posters that attempt to challenge the reader and, with an allegoric perspective, push him to deliberate the reality of life. A dystopian prism highlights human nature’s immoral and shadier sides, resulting from the instrumentalisation of freedom, which quickly turns into conscious disobedience.
Rizzo Studio: ‘Britons – Do your duty!’ Strike Fund Support Posters
Based on early 20th Century British propaganda posters, these three colour Risograph prints have been produced and sold to support the RMT rail strikes in the UK. Following on from an earlier poster in the same series in support of NHS funding which was distributed for free during the first lockdown of 2020, this series embraces the patriotic imagery so often associated with more right-wing messaging and uses it to support causes that, as a nation we should take pride in. “Workers’ rights and a universally accessible healthcare system represent the best of our values as a country and should be defended by us all,” say Rizzo Studio. As with much of the studio’s works, these posters are Risograph printed onto 100% recycled stock – in this case 120gsm cartridge. So far, proceeds from this print run have been donated to the RMT strike fund. As more industries begin to strike, future proceeds will be split between relevant strike funds.
Posters can be purchased here with £10 from the sale of each poster being donated.
Spiegelsaal: Gig Posters
While the live music industry is undergoing a huge transformation and we can’t see the final outcome yet, it pleases Spiegelsaal to see, that at least (and only?) gig poster wise, this year went into the right direction, as the duo printed tour and gig posters for the likes of Sleaford Mods, Blood Red Shoes, Wet Leg, Warpaint, and eventually the european tour poster for IGGY POP!
Mikhail Lychkovskiy: Flammable
While posters are usually created to be looked at for information or pleasure, this one by Mikhail Lychkobskiy is designed to be destroyed. In fact, the entire poster is an instruction for burning it. It contains all the necessary warnings and even a burning scale, and rounded corners refer to warning signs. Keep a fire extinguisher nearby! In addition to the ‘design’ layer, there is also an artistic one — the burning process is a performance, which means that the process is also an artistic work, and it turns the participant of the process into an artist. Fonts in use include Rubik by Hubert & Fischer, Necto Mono and Apfel Grotezk by Collletttivo.
Mario Carpe: Flowers
Flowers is a print series experimenting and mixing nature, gradients, and famous quotes. “I love nature and particularly plants and flowers, so it was the perfect chance to create a classic project but at the same time an experiment,” says designer Mario Carpe. He researched and worked individually on each quote to create an appropriate flower for it; some of them have been inspired by reality and others have grown from imagination. Mario worked from a rough sketch and then on the computer, as he wanted to employ simple shapes but focus on the play with gradients. He mostly works with flat colours when designing or illustrating, however on this project, nature offered Mario the possibility to explore new ways to use colour and therefore gradients.
James Turner: Support Posters
James Turner created this print, Support, in solidarity with all striking workers. The shaking hands were inspired by motifs from trade union banners and a logo used at TUC Women Chainmakers Festival held annually in Cradley Heath. The festival honours the 1910 strikes which focused the world’s attention on the plight of Britain’s low paid women workers. In their back yard forges hundreds of women laid down their tools to strike for a living wage, led by union organiser and campaigner Mary Macarthur. The first edition of 20, 2 colour screen printed posters were sold at Artefact Projects with funds going to the RMT, CWU, and Stirchley Printworks where they were printed.
Becca Thorne: Social Bumblebees of Great Britain
Despite all the buzz about saving honeybees, the fuzzy old bumblebee often gets forgotten, but they pollinate a much more diverse range of plants, in a wider range of habitats, than their honey-making cousins, and are in just as much need of our help. Becca Thorne created this linocut ID poster to celebrate our glorious bumbles, and share their amazing diversity. Pictured are 16 of the 24 UK bumblebee species. The full design is available printed on organic cotton tea towels, and individual bumblebee cards, with 10% going to the The Bumblebee Conservation Trust.
Steph Nierstenhoefer: Titirangi Fungus
This poster is part of the Love Where You Live series by OOAK. Titirangi is a small artist village in West Auckland, Aotearoa. Titirangi loosely translates from Maori into “Fringe of Heaven”. The iconic fungus statue at the Titirangi roundabout was used for this fine art giclee print. The original photograph was expanded in Illustrator and carefully coloured in green and red to hint art the surrounding Waitakere ranges. An Art Deco font was chosen to highlight the Lopdell precinct.
Available as a limited edition print via www.ooak.nz with 10% of all proceeds going to local charity The Kindness Collective Foundation.
Iris Sautier: Printemps Numérique
This series of 3 screen printed posters was printed for the Montreal non-profit organisation Printemps Numérique, whose goal is to enhance digital creativity. Iris Sautier printed white and black on iridescent paper and in 3 different patterns. She tells us; “I find the design was really very good and the result is pretty incredible and hypnotizing! It was however quite tricky technically as this paper of paper is pretty slippery… smearing happens very fast.”
www.labourgeoiseserigraphe.com
Malo Malo: La Deutsche Vita
This poster is a declaration of Malo Malo’s love for Germany and Italy. The lighthearted graphic highlights the overlapping of cultures, namely Spagetti-eis. This is a German ice-cream speciality invented by the Italian ice-cream maker Dario Fontanella in the sixties. It’s an optical illusion wherein ice-cream is posing as a bowl of spaghetti. “I tried to bring the same comedy to the title of this illustration,” says the designer. In addition to the wordplay and the illustration, Malo Malo played with the typography to evoke each country’s unique individuality. Germany is represented by a straight, tight and linear typography, while Italy is represented by a writing font with large curves.
Ineke de Vries: Franca Viola
For international womans day each year Ineke de Vries likes to showcase the public women who made a big difference but are not widely known. This poster is all about Franca Viola – the first woman that fought the law in Italy against ‘rehabilitating marriage’. “Even nowadays the topic is relevant. Women should stand up for their rights and no man has the right over a woman,” states the printmaker.
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