A microbrewery for book-lovers

Author: David

HFP at Spitalfields Festival 18th March 7-9pm

Rational Rec launches the Spitalfields Festival 2008 Crispin Place in the new Spitalfields Market London, E1 6DW (opposite Leon and Scarlett Restaurants) Tuesday 18 March 2008, 7-9pm Its FREE! www.rationalrec.org.uk In a special, one-off, free event, Rational Rec decamps to Spitalfields Market to help Spitalfields Festival launch their 2008 programme. With special performances by Benny

Inter Inter Inter; a Rational Rec Review

Last Tuesday at Rational Rec was a blast. Thank you to everyone who came and took part, you all really threw yourselves into the tasks and really made the evening work, what an amazing enthusiastic crowd!   We began the evening with a print run where we went from table to table like a screenprint

Henningham Family Press badges

I’m pretty sure there will one day be sociological studies based entirely upon 25mm button badges. Academics will pore over blown up photographs from zines to find out what was happening at the turn of the century. You could say a thing just isn’t happening if it isn’t accompanied by a badge. So we are pleased to introduce our very own badges!    There is

Upcoming Rational Rec night

We’ve caused a few raised eyebrows in the pub when people have asked us what we’re up to this year and one of the things we’ve said we are doing is “an evening of music, dance, and printing”. It does sound strange, but this clip from Matt Shlom might begin to explain things. We’ll tell

Corporate Christmas Gift comp winner

Okay we didn’t really hold a competition pitting the various corporate Christmas Cards we’ve recieved this year against one another. For a start we’re a young business and we don’t get many {most are actually just invoices from our suppliers within the Christmas period} but art & design collaborative Sparks deserve special attention this year for their

Matthew Shlomowitz @ Christ Church Spitalfields

Heard Matt’s new composition tonight, ‘line and length’. It was made to sit between two bits of Bach variations. He was the filling in the musical sandwich. It was really fantastic. At first, having not read the programme, I thought he was doing a kind of oulipo sampling thing with the Bach, but then it became very

Cluster launch at NOG

A magazine called Cluster has published a short story from a book we will be releasing next year. It is a satire entitled ‘That Storkes will onely live in Republicks and Free States’. Cluster is a magazine edited by Renee O’Drobinak and Ana Cavic, as a site for making work rather than to document and analyse

So how was Paris..?

We arrived in Paris with an open mind, but when it came to art bookshops, all the clichés about people there began to occur! The art scene there appears to be really stale and people were very conservative and extremely rude. One example; the bookshop ‘books by artists – Florence Loewy’. It is normal, internationally,

Foster + Partners 40th Birthday Party

I took a friend with me to Norman Foster’s architecture firm’s 40th birthday party in the British Museum. We got a Private View of the terracotta army. We queued to shake hands with the man himself, rather like meeting Santa, but for grown-ups. When we got to him we realised we had no idea what

Shytstem at Conway Hall

Recently we went to the Conway Hall book fair and witnessed our sister Press, the Shytstem, giving a full and frank description of themselves. They break all the rules of public speaking.