With the Manchester Artist Book Fair looming over me and no new books to speak of it seemed logical to illustrate a small book to print using the 'Risograph' technique. Now, I really didn't know much, but I had seen posts and flyers by Two Times Elliot so I had a general idea, and picked up that it may be similar to screen printing. With that in mind I designed an A6 book that could be created from an A3 page (which is the size printed via 'Risograph') with simple folds and a single cut.
I used Lisbon as my inspiration as after spending 5 days there in August, I really loved the city and it's colourful buildings. I opted for 4 single page illustrations and one double page spread as well as a front and back page - all of which could be cut up individually incase the fold and cut technique didn't work out!
It just happened that I had friends visiting from California, so I persuaded them to come along with me for company and for something different to do :-D The Great Western Studios was easy enough to find, and somewhat challenging to navigate within, but over all a great place - I'm only sorry that we were there so late so no one else was around! I selected 2 paper stocks (as I couldn't make up my mind) and went with a contrasting purple ink that was a lovely dark shade.
I'm so impressed with how quick and easy the whole process was, and the results were great! Personally my favourite is the 'gold flecked' paper, but I had many compliments on the more textured grainy stock as well.
I'm pretty sure that I'll be back next month - MUST do a new design now :-D
25for25 is just what it says on the tin - 25 prints for £25 (+VAT) - you can book via eventbrite, and bring a friend if you're too chicken to go by yourself as I was! Everyone was friendly and helpful and didn't mind all of my emails making sure I had 'got it right'.
Excellent, thanks guys!
p.s. Look out for the finished book at the Manchester Artists Book Fair!
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