This week’s work is proudly brought to you by Artline 70, Artline .3mm, Artline .1mm, Artline 200, some French curves, a pencil and The Temper Trap.
And here’s a job that came back last week, a graduation shirt for Kwinana Christian School. One colour on navy shirts.
Just finished this poster for CRWRC, a group that works in various villages in Laos. They have a pretty intense job but seem to be making a huge difference, big ups. It’s printing in Laos, for distribution in Canada.
Add me here.
If that doesn’t work, call me.
Get among it!
So, a wise printer once commented on how much more beautiful Baskerville is as a font than Times New.
(If you think typography is boring, stop reading now, I won’t be offended …)
I thought to myself, yes! But … how did he manage to look at the 14 pt type I was working with and instantly recognise that I’d updated the old job from Times New into Baskerville.
What’s the giveaway? The thick/thin constrast? Nicer serifs?
No idea. But it’s time I started exploring it, because frankly, Baskerville is an amazing typeface. I remember reading in The Type Encyclopedia that it was used to set some of the more widespread versions of the Bible, but I have a feeling mine is in something newer, maybe Bodoni?
Anyway, enjoy these lovely shapes. The Q sold me a long, long time ago!
Thanks to Mark Rossiter for the spark!
IBM, Paul Rand, 1981.
OPSM, 2010.
You know, just that, well, umm, yeah.
Good design tends to live on, generations apart. Like the poster that I ripped from Emil Ruder a while back …
I had planned to get these guys out by winter. But, I didn’t.
So here they are, 10 images from around the state, shot between June 2009 and October 2010.
See the full set, here, in the gallery.
It’s the jam, yall.
Be there, looking good.
The pieces are exhibiting now.
I submitted ‘Bridge by Night’, which is part of a Perth series I’ve been shooting the last nine months.
Exhibition closes 3 November, get into it.
Mosaic will be having it’s monthly gathering ‘in the garden’, at the Victoria Park Centre for the Arts. Fun!
Last month’s was awesome, really fun weather and a good crew.
And Edd: I actually drew something, rather than just using type. How cool is that, for a change?
Funny: I chose yellow, red and black as my palette without thinking about including the logos.
Instinct, perhaps? Or I’m just really, really good.
Probably instinct, on second thought.
So, this is pretty much stuff that no-one ever needs to know …
But, I make umbrellas in my spare time.
I get an upper-case G, in any typeface I want (because I live on the edge!), I turn it sideways, and then I add an uppercase J from the same family.
And it makes a little umbrella.
This one is courtesy of Arno, pro, small. Arno is a fun type family.
Now that is a fun exercise, hey kids? Forget X-Box, we can draw letters for kicks.
I have real friends, honest.
Zeus is dropping his second mixtape. This time, it’s all funk breaks.
And how fun is one colour design? Anyone?
Just found this image from last year. We were hoping to get some magazine love, but alas, no.
Kim Feast on the ski, Mike Honeybone in the air. Boneyards, in June, I think? I was calling the image ‘Honeyboneyards’. Get it?
Xpress Mag are running some editorial on The Bullet Holes new EP, which launches this Saturday.
So, I guess I can release some images from the process.
This little hand drawn number popped up early on in the game; I like it for some unknown reason, the band liked it … so, I guess, we all liked it. I was calling it ‘And S0′, just because I wanted to name all the little friends I drew along the way. Weird, hey.
So it got used inside:
And outside:
There is a swath of drawings and bits floating around, which document the process in more depth, but perhaps they will appear here at some other time?
Anyway, a great process alongside a great band. Good times all round.
I got a blank email from some dude called ‘HAROLD MITCHELL SR.’
Slightly odd, but that’s ok …
Edd sent me this. Check it.
Which reminded me of this. Check it.
Simply timeless, I still remember bugging that they had a video on the CD when I bought it in 2000.
I’ve been working with local rock heroes The Bullet Holes. They have an EP coming out in a few weeks, ‘Destroy The Fables’, so I’ve been working on the EP cover art, as well as the poster and some other secret bits and pieces.
Check it, should be a really fun gig.
After seeing his work ethic, I’ll just shut up about ‘bad days’ …
Some friend of ours at Mosaic had a little baby.
So we sent them a giant poster.
Because, obviously, parents of a newborn baby have lots of space to put giant poster.
Was up at Kalbarri last weekend, for a camp.
I didn’t get a chance to shoot much at all, but I definitely noticed the flowers are starting to come out for Spring, so I might need to clear the diary and pack the car soon …
So, I have a loft. You know how we loft it up.
We went from this …
To this …
I left the mess at home.
And, we’re back.
After a few months of re-designing and re-fiddling, the site and the business are back in action.
And the blog is back and running, right here.
There is a small gallery of some design work, and a few photography galleries. More to come, soon, but for now, enjoy the meat and potatoes.
If there’s anything you feel is missing, just drop me a line at nathan@theendstop.com.
Word.
New film doing the rounds, hopefully hits Perth?
Typeface focuses on a rural Midwestern museum and print shop where international artists meet retired craftsmen and together navigate the convergence of modern design and traditional technique.
Definitely worth a peek-peek!
A few months of struggling around CSS and geeky web stuff … but we’re nearly ready for the new endstop.
Until then, enjoy this:
Bulletholes Single launch
A little something for the Bulletholes gig last month, good jam too.
EP coming soon, on the sneak tip though …
