Wednesday 18 April 2012

Friday 30 March 2012

The 3rd Manchester Print Fair

The 3rd fair will take place on Sunday 29th April 2012 at Night & Day Cafe, Oldham Street.
The following people will be selling:



OWT Creative


We work collaboratively through print and digital, making work that spans from our own high production value take on the zine aesthetic through to branding, web design, curation and art direction.

Through working within ourselves and our extended network of designers, writers, illustrators and all manner of creative types we are able to create solutions to any design problem.
owtcreative.com

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Lottie Pencheon
… illustrator and print maker from Macclesfield.
I studied Graphic Design with illustration at the University of Salford.
I enjoy print making, especially lino printing.
I love making picture books and drawing animals.
I recently started animating using completely hand drawn scenes.
lottiepencheon.com/

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Caroline Dowsett
I'm an aspiring freelance illustrator and am currently studying Graphic Design at MMU. Inspiring my doodles;films and characters, literature, lyrics & music, prints, old imagery, nature, editorial images, life and bits & bobs I find along the way.


http://dowsettdoodles.blogspot.com





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Jamie Mills


Jamie Mills is an Artist & Illustrator currently based in York, U.K.


http://jamie-mills.com/





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Yee Illustration
I graduated with First Class honours on the BA (Hons) Illustration course from Falmouth College of Arts in 2006.
I have been working freelance ever since on a broad range of projects. My work is influenced by pattern, texture, bright, bold colours, typography and different printmaking techniques.
Outside of illustration I like to bake, watch football, drink tea, knit and crochet.


http://www.yeellustration.co.uk/





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Joshua Brent
I am currently study Graphic Design at Salford University, where I'm expanding my knowledge and experience with illustration.
I see illustration as problem solving. To communicate the messages and ideas placed before me in unique, direct and thought provoking ways.


http://joshuabrent.com/





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Adam Cadwell
Adam Cadwell grew up in Rossendale, Lancashire. He always drew pictures of the things he liked and before he knew it he had graduated from the Interactive Arts course at Manchester Metropolitan University.
Since then has been drawing all the time, mainly comics such as the now completed webcomic The Everyday and the slacker vampire comic Blood Blokesand he has been working professionally as an Illustrator since early 2007. Gaining experience by working in-house at advertising agency TBWA\Manchester and then by running commercial art company DRAW, he now works freelance asCadwell Illustration and is based in Central Manchester.
Cadwell’s comic work has been published by Jonathan Cape, Image Comics, Blank Slate Books, We Are Words + Pictures and Solipsistic Pop. His illustration work has also appeared in magazines such as MOJO, Shortlist, Plus 1, Mustard, Gay Times and Disorder.
www.adamcadwell.com



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Bound Collective


We are 5 young Graphic Designers from Manchester who are inspired by design, photography, music, culture and most importantly, the environment around us.


http://boundcollective.tumblr.com/





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Tracey Bradley & Sian Morrell
Tracey and Sian are designers currently studying at the Manchester School of Art.


http://www.flickr.com/photos/traceyjanebradley/


http://sianmorrell.blogspot.co.uk/







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Kristyna Baczynski
Illustrator, comic book artist and designer of Yorkshire tongue and Ukrainian blood.
I work from my studio in Leeds, UK. I am always available and excited about new projects, commissions and collaborations.


www.kristyna.co.uk/

Tuesday 6 December 2011

Our December artists!

With our second fair, we welcome back some of our first stallholders and some fresh new faces.
Check out what they're about and see their beautiful work in the following post:


The Lab

The Lab loves all things creative, and tries to reflect this in everything that it does. It started under a simple and perhaps naive notion that good music will prevail, an ideal it stands by.


thelab.cc/
thelabcc.tumblr.com



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OWT Creative

We work collaboratively through print and digital, making work that spans from our own high production value take on the zine aesthetic through to branding, web design, curation and art direction.

Through working within ourselves and our extended network of designers, writers, illustrators and all manner of creative types we are able to create solutions to any design problem.

http://

owtcreative.com

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NUDE Magazine

Nude was launched in August 2003 by Suzy Prince and Ian Lowey; two people brought together by a shared interest in many of the strange and exotic things which exist at the margins of pop culture. Starting life as a free-distribution zine, by our last issue in 2011 Nude magazine had evolved into a glossy, quarterly, internationally-distributed, cutting edge publication with high production values, which served up a colourful and highly illustrated overview of all aspects of contemporary independent and retro culture.

From lowbrow art to indie crafting, via street art, outsider art, comics, illustration, outrĂ© architecture, indie crafting, cult fiction, photography, indie and underground film, tiki, burlesque, designer toys, Steampunk, leftfield music… Nude magazine covered it all over the course of 17 fabulously eclectic issues, as part of its brief to explore the margins of popular culture.


nudemagazine.co.uk/


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Lottie Pencheon

… illustrator and print maker from Macclesfield.
I studied Graphic Design with illustration at the University of Salford.
I enjoy print making, especially lino printing.
I love making picture books and drawing animals.
I recently started animating using completely hand drawn scenes.



lottiepencheon.com/



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Purple Cocoon



purplecocoon.blogspot.com/


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The Mill Press

The Mill Press is an independent publishing and writing house, based in London and Manchester.
We publish a quarterly journal with a purpose to explore subjects of intrigue and ambiguity.
We also create and publish artist books, collections of short stories, photographic prints, poster design and hand made greeting cards using found objects.


themillpress.co.uk



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Alex Hoggarth

I love typography, photography and topography as well as other things that don't have ography after their name.


alexhoggarth.com


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Caroline Dowsett


I'm an aspiring freelance illustrator and am currently studying Graphic Design at MMU. Inspiring my doodles;films and characters, literature, lyrics & music, prints, old imagery, nature, editorial images, life and bits & bobs I find along the way.


dowsettdoodles.blogspot.com

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Book Club Clothing

Sara Maria Keating // Chris Binns // Alex Frazer

With a DIY ethic, Book Club Clothing combines a love of traditional illustration and literature. Producing tee-shirts, tote bags and prints inspired by the sea, books, tattoos, punk-rock, traditional illustration, England, Americana, life, love and everything in between.


bookclubclothing.bigcartel.com


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Salford Illustration


Salford Illustration is a platform to explore and debate the activity of illustration in the 21st Century.There is a focus on practitioners living and working in Salford and Manchester but we are keen to maintain a global perspective.


salfordillustration.com


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Sarah McKevitt


I have recently studied at the University of Salford where i obtained a BA Honours in Graphic Design. I have always been a creative, favouring the arts throught my education. The degree has also increased my passion and thirst for knowledge in my chosen field.

My art background affords me the ability to see things and design things in a way that provides complete production, in content, layout and design to the client or business i am working with.


sarahmckevitt.com/

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310

We are a collection of illustrators, who each brings their own unique flavour to the studio where we go to create, motivate and collaborate.

Consisting of Mark Mottershead, Chris Howker, James Hood, Stephen Brown, Daniel Hodgkinson and Carrie-Anne Brown – we all met through our course in Stockport and have since then continued our friendship outside of it’s walls to form this band of eager and motivated freelance illustrators.


weare310.blogspot.com


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St.Huro

Design, Illustration and Crafts produced for mass consumption by 3 Northern monkeys.


st-huro.tumblr.com

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Do Not Touch Manchester


Manchester made clothing.

December Fair


Following the success of The Manchester Print Fair's debut in September we welcome you to attend the 2nd event this year!

The Manchester Print Fair is an independent arts event, celebrating the best of design, art and photography.

The fair will offer a variety of artist publications, zines, screen prints, homewares and more!

This month will feature work from:

THE LAB
OWT CREATIVE
NUDE MAGAZINE
SALFORD ILLUSTRATION
THE MILL PRESS
LOTTIE PENCHEON
ALEX HOGGARTH
BOOK CLUB CLOTHING
CAROLINE DOWSETT
STUDIO 310

Friday 4 November 2011

Snaps from MPF September 2011



©Caitlin Howard

©Caitlin Howard