Tissle tassel

Todays 2nd illustration students have been tessilating! The above pictured are

from Top left

Jake Truman

Lucy Kenny

Joe Taylor

Hannah Moore

A really great day!

..and it helped that the print room was flooded with sunlight.

MMU Artist Book Fair

We went to Manchester's 5th artist book fair and it was fun fun fun in the (lack of) sun sun sun! I unfortunately had to leave early but I did take a few snaps before I left...

Our table:

The lovely Helen of Hello Memo, also selling work by friends

Karoline Rerrie's lovely work

Chiu getting excited with the jacob's ladder

Simon Goode looking at our table

Sorry there's not many pics everyone, I thought I had loads more but obviously not! I saw some other people taking snaps so please upload them if you can! :) x

Manchester Book Fair 2010

Some photos of the Manchester Artists Book Fair, with the rather successful ABC stand.

Chius Collection
Everyone elses...
My hord after a successful swap with some of the other stalls.

Finally.. a view from the sellers side.

Cool stuff guys!

Tris' Owls

My three best owls using two semitransparent overlapping colours, flying over land and sea to deliver their letters.

twit twoo

5 minute badge

Chiu showed us the badge maker quickly the other day & gave us 5 minutes to come up with something, so i did a little bunny :)

Joe's 2 colour double sided poster

My Arms Speak To Me And I Listen

What my first unit of my second year at bcu has produced.

Its size A1 and double sided,

I have used two colours, utalising the overlapping colours and

the paper to make the third and forth colour.

Poppys postcards for Manchester book fair

a few photos of my first 2 colour prints! 5 of the 6 postcards that will be for sale, check out my blog for more photos and other stuff x

L5 Printers :D

some cheeky snaps from Lucie's L5 printing group! yay Joe, Poppy, Tris & Katie

Busy Bee

Soo this is what I've been up to the past week.

Screen printed a lovely big jellyfish poster and put down the first colour on my tote bags, will post again when they're finished!

Call for submissions for the Manchester Artists' Book Fair 6th November

Manchester Artists' Book Fair 6th November 2010 We are very proud to have been approached by Manchester Metropolitan University to run this years Artists' Book Fair. Now in it's fifth year the book fair has become well renowned for presenting the best in contemporary books. On show will be 40 stands of hand-made journals, hand-printed and bound editions, altered books and lots more, from artists and small publishers from the North West region and around the UK. There will also be events, exhibitions and short courses in bookmaking and letterpress run to coincide with the fair. Entrance will be free, and all artists and makers are there to discuss their work. There are lots of bargains to be had too, and the work is truly beautiful, the wealth of craftsmanship and creativity on show outstanding. IF YOU HAVE HAND MADE BOOKS THAT YOU WOULD LIKE TO SELL, SEE EITHER CHIU OR LUCIE - YOU CANNOT SELL ON THE ABC@BIAD TABLE UNLESS IT HAS BEEN SUBMITTED FOR APPROVAL

The Person You Love is 72% Water

http://www.behance.net/gallery/the-person-you-love-is-72_8-water/375846

& how cool is this!

http://www.behance.net/gallery/braided/548484

Getting your work at B'ham Zine Fest

Hi everyone,

I'm sure you all know from previous posts that we have a table at the first ever Birmingham Zine Festival collectively, and that I said I'd sit at it. If you want your work at the table then cool! Just contact me at start_today@rocketmail.com about getting your work to me. However, it seems that I won't really be sitting at the table. Here is a bit of the email I got from the organisers:

***IN PERSON***

- We'll be accepting up to 10 zines, comics or booklets from each person.
- We'll be setting up from 11am (fair opens at 12noon). You can bring your zines along at any point during the day, but the earlier you can bring them, the more you'll be likely to sell!
- We'll record how many zines you give us and you'll receive ALL the money from any sales your publications make!
- You'll need to collect your money and any unsold publications from the communal table your publication is on. Again, this can be done at any point throughout the day, but the later the better (the fair finishes at 6pm).


So just to clarify I asked how the day will go, and got this email back:


Hi Chloe,

That's okay! The festival organisers will be selling zines on the communal tables. The idea is for people to give their zines to us, we'll sell them and when you need to leave the fair, you can collect your money and any unsold copies. We won't take any sort of cut from the money your zines make.

So you won't need to sit at the table and sell your zines! You'll be able to enjoy the fair, exhibitions and workshops!

Andrew


So we won't be sitting at the tables but I assume we get to set them up. Bad because we won't be able to answer questions anyone may have about our work, or be able to change prices according to sales, but good because we will find it easy to go around the whole festival and look at everything at our own pace rather than worrying about getting back to the table.


SO *to put a long post short!* I suggest we maybe meet at 10.30 at New Street Station if you'd like your work on the table/ would like to go to the festival together. Please please PLEASE contact me about putting work on the table, I don't want to be the only one! And people I've been contacting on facebook have no excuse! My email address is start_today@rocketmail.com Sorry about the long post!


Chloe x

THE LONDON ART BOOK FAIR

http://www.whitechapelgallery.org/exhibitions/the-london-art-book-fair

The London Art Book Fair 2010 will take place at the Whitechapel Gallery from 24-26 September 2010.

The London Art Book Fair is an annual event devoted to international art publishing. Hosted by the Whitechapel Gallery in association with Marcus Campbell Art Books, The London Art Book Fair presents the work of individual artist publishers, galleries, magazines, colleges, arts publishing houses, rare book dealers and distributors alongside a wider associated programme of talks and events.

A new fair in manchester in october!

At the beginning of October there will be a brand new multiple and zine fair, so I thought I'd share the link here:
http://publishpiccadilly.blogspot.com/
It's free or at least very cheap (they've not decided yet!) so well worth a look in.

Also, this is a link to a good group on facebook about zines:
http://www.facebook.com/home.php?#!/pages/Zines/326008610171
It's got loads of info on it about things happening all over the world. Enjoy! x

Birmingham Zine Fest

Is anyone doing the birmingham zine fest? There's a link to the facebook group in the title. I asked about tables with ABC in mind and this is the email I got back:
How many of you would there be? We have communal tables for people who have 2-4 zines each- would this be suitable? Unfortunately table space to have your own table is limited and we are just sorting through table booking emails to see what room we have!

So let me know if you're already sorting out a table for ABC, and if not then please let me know if you'd like to join in selling your stuff. I'm happy to take other people's stuff too that can't make it to the actual event. Just please let me know asap so I can let the people know if we want a table or not :)

Thanks! Chloe x