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Posted by A FRIEND OF PRINTERESTING on January 27th, 2012 | A guest post by Spanish artist Teresa Gómez-Martorell.
I recently visited Murtra Edicions, a print shop and print publishers in Barcelona, to have a look at their amazing editions. The renowned Spanish artist Perejaume was there signing his newest artist’s book.
In 2007, Perejaume won the Premio Nacional de Arte Gráfico, Spain’s National Printmaking Award. This prize is the most important national achievement in printmaking for an artist in Spain. There is nothing else to say about Perejaume’s innovative prints and his art discourse, he is an outstanding artist in the Catalan and Spanish art scene. I have to say that and I am very biased: I love his artwork and I consider him one of my influences as an artist.
 Jordi watches as Perejaume signs his latest artist’s book.
Behind the scenes, Jordi Rosés and Pilar Lloret, Murtra Edicions’ proprietors, were translating Perejaume’s ideas to a copper plate. I love to stop at their print shop when I am visiting Barcelona and I have the privilege to see the development of some of the prints or artist’s books they are working on and the quality of the editions. Artwork from artists such as Brossa, Amat, Saura, Tàpies, are a part of their flat files. Murtra printshop is located in Jordi and Pilar’s garage and it is a very well organized facility. It is a comfortable space to work on any kind of intaglio, photo etching and wood techniques. Some work areas are set on the patio and it is an inspiring experience to work at plein air. Inside, prints and proofs on the walls are showing their works on progress.
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Posted by Jason Urban on January 27th, 2012 | 
The Post Family was featured earlier this week in a three-minute spot of BBC. The short video is a nice behind-the-scenes of the Chicago art/design collective and focuses on their balanced approach to digital and analog approaches.They liken their efforts to the 19th century guild model of production. The video embed code doesn’t work so if you’d like to watch it, you can go to the BBC article or you can watch it on HuffPo without the commercials.
Posted by RL Tillman on January 25th, 2012 | 
According to this article from PC Advisor, 60% of respondents to a recent poll use their home printer primarily “for leisure.” This is nearly twice as many who claimed they use their printers primarily “for work.”
Of course! Inkjet brings the party.
Please feel free to send us any photos of yourself enjoying leisure time with your HP All-in-One.
Posted by Julia V. Hendrickson on January 24th, 2012 |
1875, William Morris, Acanthus, block-printed wallpaper using 30 blocks in 15 distemper colours, on paper
I’ve been doing a fair amount of research on French and British 19th century wallpaper these days, and I came across this fascinating video showing how William Morris’ wallpapers are printed by hand (this one, Acanthus, is from 1874). Printed wallpaper has existed in Britain since the 16th century, which is pretty amazing (the earliest known surviving example, is at the Master’s Lodge in Christ’s College, Cambridge). If you’re interested in such things, the V&A has a fantastic collection of wallpapers, most of which you can see on their online collection. At the V&A Art Library, you can even request prints to be pulled out and you can hang out with them for a while. It’s great.
More wallpaper tidbits to come!
1874, William Morris, design for Acanthus wallpaper, pencil, watercolour and bodycolour on paper
Posted by Jason Urban on January 23rd, 2012 | 
Vuurwerk, or Fireworks, is a collaborative project by the Dutch design group, LetterProeftuin (Jaron Korvinus, Timon van der Hijden, and Yorit Kluitman) and designer Lara de Greef.
Gafisch Atelier Den Bosch in ‘s-Hertogenbosch, a city located about halfway between Amsterdam and Antwerp, commissioned the group to create a new year’s gift “for their relations”. Based on the printing house tradition of producing a free calendars to celebrate a new year and showcase new printing techniques, the group decided to create a single print that would somehow change throughout the year. Because it could reflect the temperature changes of the seasons, thermal ink seemed like a logical fit. The group approached the European screen ink producer UNICO and proposed a sponsorship (btw, Unico makes great ink). Unico agreed to provide different color inks that would alter in transparency and opacity depending on temperature.
After two months of work the end result is an 8-layer screenprint including 4 thermal ink layers hand-printed in an edition of 600 prints. One print was pasted on an aluminium plate with integrated heating elements for the exhibition. The print was then wrapped in a blind blocking print made from laser cut shapes of wood.
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