Philippa Rice - 100 Things To do

Black monoprint only. High quality copying tho! I really like the concept, cos i get bored a lot. I will keep this handy from now on.

There's a lot of layout experimenting in this. Quaint line illustrations that do look a little rushed in places, but thats half the charm.

Kristyna Bacynski - A Four Panel Affair

Aww, its iddy biddy and cheap.

Cute little illustrations in a four panel layout in a variety of colour schemes giving each one differentiation.

straight up cut out and fold up arrangement. looks cool when unfolded as well tho!

Filthy Little Angels Records

This is taken from the fla website. check the strangeways font haha.

Very simple monoprint image on brown CD case. Photograph doesnt transfer to mono very easily, looks a bit bitty for my liking.

Again, nice and simple. Centralised text for track listing with small print and fla logo.

I really love this artwork. Its a really nice illustration that i think is a bit too twee when compared to the music. The stock is much better than that the above example but darker, could be contrast issues with the ink.

Very illustrative for the back of a CD. Tracks are in small print above the label logo.

Ahh, a full Jewel case CMYK from the label.

Apparently this was an earlier release than the simple monoprinted card cases above. A lot more money was splashed out on duplication and printing. That pink says it all really.

The label decided to change to the cheaper printing methods after a while. Loki Machine, however, are aiming cheap as chips from the start.

Curtis and Terrorist - Modern Monstrosity Comics

The Curtis and Terrorist page on the Modern Monstrosity Comics website.

Hamd drawn front cover of issue 1. Looks like sharpy and highlighter on reformed cardboard, Rock and roll.

More hand drawn text on the inside cover.

6 panel A4 fold up zine stapled inside. CMYK print on glossy paper.

Issue 2 cover! Comes in a variety of stock colours. I love the front flap!

Aww look at how scared of terrorists he is.

Same arrangement inside as issue 1, 6 panel A4 sheet folded up and stapled in. Works really well.

Resistance style? - pictograms!

these are interesting, not sure about the background for each image tho. it makes me think of guess who and you subconsciously look at every single one and say what it represents in your head. stick man style!

No stick men here unfortunately. Interesting combination of line drawings and silhouettes. I like the idea of having lots of illustrations for people to suss out at the same time.

Woodcuts by Masereel

I love these woodcuts. they're from a book called "the city" and work as a social commentary of city life in the mid 1920's.

• The first motorcars and the first awareness of pollution in city atmospheres

• proletarian icons are also used, which suggests early sovietism

• The wealth divide and homelessness

• fear created by occurances such as murder

• Mundaneness of a working class and possibly soviet lifestyle.

The style of the illustrations themselves is of great appeal to me. the monotone stamp effect is something i've been interested in for a while but never really experimented with.

Monoprinting this week?

London graphics

Awesome type-as-image book cover we saw in London when on a dissertation visit. About london bands and Roughtrade history.

Really nice polaroid wall in Roughtrade. Pretty classic but everyone loves polaroids.

I saw this carried out a few times in London. Just a very interesting hands-on approach to communicating a message.

"The Devil wears prada, but the People wear £5 plimsoles." Made me laugh. A D.I.Y advert.

I dont know how lush the soup actually was, but it seemed a very confident cockney advertisement that i'm pretty sure that the soup would indeed have been lush.

Expensive like. Liking the veggie one being cheaper too, ha!