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Author: David

A lecture in your second language, or maybe third

Today we did an interview for Arte TV with a lovely guy called Phillip Bremner which may be screened in October. They wanted to get the beginning of the lecture. The lecture went really well, although my English was too complex. I’ve gone through this change where my syntax is all over the place and

Opening night at Illustrative ’07!

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zdfbWJ1DLuE[/youtube] The opening was amazing, it was like a club. There were at least 600 at the opening and a heavy turnover, people even queued outside to come in. Are they all like this in Berlin? They gave us tokens for the bar, we could get used to this. On the second floor there was

Now a word from our sponsors…

     We weren’t really sure how big this show was going to be when we got on the plane, but as soon as we arrived at Alexanderplatz we saw subway posters, and flyposters all over the city! We’re not ashamed of our tourist photos.

Illustrative 2007

For the first half of September we’ll be in Berlin as part of the Illustrative 07 art fair. I’ll be doing a lecture there that I’ll be repeating here in a little while. The lecture will be about us, but I’ll be talking about Danielson and Eric Gill mostly. We don’t know what to expect,

Shytstem Issue Three

We strongly recommend you buy the latest issue of the Shytstem; Issue 3. We are in it, but that’s not the reason. We think it is really fantastic. What they’ve done this time is, instead of putting various items in the box by individual artists, they’ve put standard size prints done in their press with

Adorable Art Fair lived up to its name

We had a great time at the Adorable Art Fair yesterday. We were able to show a lot of new people our work and also see what other people have come up with. There is a lot of great work going on, and I can say without hyperbole that it was the best fair of

Adorable Art Fair

We will be taking part in the adorable art fair Hope to see you there!

Twinned with the Shytstem

the Henningham Family Press twinned with The Shytstem For the forthcoming Shytstem issue (3) we did a print last night. We’ve twinned our Presses like they do for towns. We’re not sure why towns do it, except to send groups of OAPs to visit each other’s war memorials, but we’ve done it to make our

Anti American Ism

I heard an interesting radio programme today on Radio 4 called ‘death to America’ It followed the normal tradition of Radio 4 docs in that it was based upon a flimsy premise, the reporter asked leading questions, and refused to learn anything from anyone he spoke to, but it was redeemed by the usual side-effect that there

New part-time job at Bookworks!

Good news from me; I just got a part-time job at Bookworks binding studio here in the East End. Our Press is a similar organisation to Bookworks, which has been going for over 25 years and has a publishing side and a studio for handmade books and boxes. I’ll be able to hone loads of skills there and it