Some shots of nice old walls, signage and textures from a recent trip to the US.
Space Invaders : Twoone and myself will be showing at the National Gallery of Australia (Canberra).
Circle Tee : Order the new Twoone tshirt here.
Design Files : Interview with me here.
Blah blah blah : My stumbling rant on the recent WF show at Broadsheet here.
Here’s a panorama of the installation of the Wooden Foundations show. Click for the full-size image (600k).
I’m mad keen on signwriting done the ‘old way’ (check out my flickr). I first took an interest in it while at Uni when I would ride my bike around my home town photographing signage and graffiti with my old Yashica 35-ME. My dad brought me that camera back from a trip to Czechoslovakia. I loved it, it was so easy to use and took great photos, and I’d spend many weekends exploring my city and dropping a tag here and there while I was at it.
There’s so much to appreciate about sign-writing (as opposed to ‘sign-making’). The craft, skill, and years of practice stand out of course, and you gotta respect that, but also the way painted signs decay looks so beautiful. So below I’ve compiled a few videos and links on this dying art. I hope that signwriting will be back in the mainstream and those oldies will be charging primo $$$ for their work.
Thank you for the people made it to the opening of Wooden Foundations at No Vacancy on Thursday night. For the people who missed the opening, the show is open until 16th July. So please check it out! thanks to Cam Baker for the sign!