The Paper Log for Art & Design
<div>Issue #4 / £4.50 <p>Featured</p> <p>//Benjamin Ang, Andrew Bevan, Laura Bittles, Bernice Boahene, //Sharon Boothroyd, Roseanna Clare, Arnaud De Bock, Red Design, Simon Ellis, Grace Hsu, Christian Jago, Olivia Kemp, Joanna Lyczko
Whitty, William Suckling.</p> <a href=”http://www.plogmagazine.com”></a></div>
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and
sausage
rolls
knack for great names and one liners. He
S: The studio consists of myself, Joe
it worked really well so you can kind of say we hijacked it when we all jumped ship from Addict. We love it & it works for us.
backgrounds forming the studio out of a love for design and sausage rolls. Josh is our naewest member who has been with us for almost two years now. J: Steve & myself met while I was working in a bar in Southampton. He’d had a bad day at work so I got him drunk. Josh wasn’t so lucky, he sent through his portfolio a job straight away.
S: We didn’t set out to just be a print design studio and we still don’t want
J: Filthy Black was designed as an extension of the custom logo we created
the initial stages of the typeface. For display purposes we tried to use serifs much smaller than normal. From the start Filthy Black Italic was intended to be viewed at large sizes. Because of it’s heavy weight and small serifs the typeface is best used on headings and titles.
so much to learn from an industry that is ever changing. When a client needs a print service we have a lot of experience print to our clients. S: Theres no denying the fact we live in This year we are looking to collaborate with other creative studios in both motion and web design. It’s important to keep thing fresh and healthy by extending our studio skill set. J: It was never the intention to set up a print studio. We were both graphic designers and our only experience at that point was with print. At the start we had a third partner who was taking care of our web work. When Dave left to work in London the main focus from that point onwards for Steve & myself was print.
S: It’s funny as we always get asked this by so many people ‘so what is original partner Dave Dirtbag, he has a
taken second place when it comes to communication. We feel there is still a market for print, just the feeling of something tangible in your hands, and the smell you get from newly printed work. You can’t beat it! Also with the development of & advances in paper stocks, the printing industry is a very exciting place to be right now. J: I feel that print will always exist, certainly in my lifetime. As long as you try to push the boundaries then it is still a very exciting medium to work with. I will always love & have a passion for print regardless of what the current trend may be.
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GRACE HSU *Us I’m originally from Taiwan, lived in Vancouver for a couple years then wandered my way to the city of London. After studying at Kingston Uni, I am now working as a freelance photographer. “Us” is a series that leads from a personal project of photographing my boyfriend, Derek. I try to document our moments and memories. From that, I want to capture other couples’ invaluable moments and also challenge myself to photograph couples (I barely know some of them) in their comfort zone – as if I wasn’t there. hello@gracehsu.co.uk www.gracehsu.co.uk
BERNICE BOAHENE *The
Memory
of
Water Through the journey of looking at the water properties via experimentation, psychologically if one feels drawn into a relationship with water, a constant reminder of its importance is revealed to them. This inspired me to believe that by man, but by one who sees its importance, appreciates it and knows that without it, there is no life.â&#x20AC;? bernice043@googlemail.com
ESTELLE MORRIS *Marco
Corso
like to keep the freshness and immediacy of this within all my work. Usually with a muted colour palette and minimal background. I am a keen collector and like to stash away old notes, bits of paper and vintage books. Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve also been collecting and buying found 8mm home movies and photographs from junk shops etc. which i use to draw from. Something just draws me to these forgotten and discarded objects - I like to re-create stories for the people within them and bring them to life in my illustrations.
www.estellemorris.com
CHRISTIAN JAGO *The
World
Through
my
Eyes
Each photo shows how I would like to remember that particular scene. What draws me most to taking a photograph is the vibrant yet lack of colours of the world, the view from down below and the way light can change a scene all together. Recently, I have been looking into double exposures and using them to create more dynamic meanings for my photographs. I am inspired by the photographs in magazines such as Nylon, Hunger and Vogue and inspired by Photographers such as Bryant Eslava, Jonathon Knowles and David Bailey. I take my camera everywhere with me ready to photograph when the opportunity presents itself. www.jagowned.tumblr.com @Jagonator
ANDREW BEVAN *TK
Max
Advertising
www.andrewbevan.co.uk @itsAndrewBevan
Project
SIMON ELLIS *Typographic
Trump
Cards
I love to create info-graphics of subjects that havenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t been documented in a graphic form and I also love photography and listening to Joy Division. My set of trump cards designed to compare and showcase individual typefaces and how they have been used by world leaders. Cards are compared by design year, creator, family, rank and usage. Includes leaders such as Obama and the famous campaign use of Gotham by the french parliament rebranding of Sarkozy using Didot.
www.simon-ellis.com
MADELINE WHITTY^ *Algae Currently major companies are researching and investing into potential applications and uses for the versatile organism, Algae. It has four main components within a single cell, we have typefaces, which create numerous possibilities for folding and manipulating. ^In collaboration with Sophie Burt and Benji Roebuck
www.madelinewhitty.com www.sophieburt.com www.benjiroebuck.com
WILLIAM SUCKLING *Dregs Many previous covers for this book were very cliché and patronising to the book either, depicting a large Captain Nemo and his Nautilus Submarine. Therefore, I kept the project as a purely typographical exercise, as the majority of people reading the book will have an idea of what the book is about due to it’s age, and status in the literary world. From researching old print ads of the Victorian era I came up with a design and type ‘style’ which complements the book. Moreover I etched the design into copper as a reference to the diving suits of the time and to give the book a ‘hull’ in which to live in. www.behance.net/bayleydesign
ONEHUNDRED&ONE *On|Off
Collective
Illustration Competition. With help from our friends we are searching the country for young, fresh
2012. There will be two rounds of judging, from a highly skilled and experienced panel (to be announced). The 'best'101 responses shall be entered into a two-day exhibition at our fantastic Underground Venue in Chelsea, London. With the second round of judging taking place at the event, narrowing it down to the 2012 Winner.