We have been invited by the nice people at TYPE to take part in their 'House of Caslon' event on Wednesday 5th May. We have designed a special Caslon poster and tee which we will be printing up live throughout the day. All prints will be available to buy for just £10
"Type is once again collaborating with the Birmingham Institute of Art & Design at Birmingham City University on the production of a new project: 'The House of Caslon'. This is a short animation about the life, work and influences of another of the region's typographic alumni: William Calson I, who was born in Cradley in 1692."
Production on the animation has now commenced all typographers, lettering artists, calligraphers, cartoonists, illustrators, musicians and other creatives will participate in a day of filming. Artists will be recorded whilst creating work of their choosing which has been produced in celebration of Caslon the man or the typeface.
Filming is scheduled for Wednesday 5 MAY 2010, 1000-1600 and will take place at the Birmingham Institute of Art & Design, Corporation Street, Gosta Green, Birmingham B4 7DX.
Hope to see you all there
We havent updated for a long while so heres a few posts ofwhat we've been up to. The east end arts club asked ifwe wanted to get involved with their F**K ART Lets LOVE!! exhibitio. We printed up a limited run of 30 in two colour ways….this is what we did:
The Launch of Jam Factorys & Crazy Labels new Vinyl Toy, the "Droplets" were unleashed into the world on Saturday night over at Go Go Plastic, Birmingham. The exhibition consisted of a wild array of customs from:
Waste, - Sneaky Raccoon - The Lister Brothers - Richt - Sums - Mr Jago - China Mike - 45RPM - Hicks - Pone - Hicalorie - Mr Guy - Peskimo - M4KINOV - Mr Penfold - Klingatron Squink - Kenn Munk - Delme - Monstafaktory - Triclops - Doktor A - Map-Map - Okkle Lunartik - S4NDMAN - Snub - Wanjob - PuppyFactory - Cris Rose - Phil Blake BlackCloud - Guy McKinley - Pie - Daniel Strange - Dr. Strange - The man called my Uncle - FarkFK
Its up for the rest of the month so if your in the birmingham area drop round and have a peak.
The Nice folk at Maki contacted us last year regarding a book they were starting work on. It's called Custom Kicks and will be published by Laurence King publishing in May. The book is all about customised footwear and features the works of about 140 artists including Us, Skwak, Steven Harrington, Chuck Anderson, Mike Perry, Boris Hoppek, Jeremyville, Emil Kozak, Jon Burgerman and many many more. You can grab yourself a copy ealry as its on pre-sale at Amazon.
The book launch event will be held in Holland on Saturday June 28 on the Spui square in Amsterdam. The American Bookstore is organising this event and it will include live customising by the featured custom kicks artists.
If any of you can make it along pop over and say hello the pair of us will be around doodling 
