Thursday 23 June 2011

New Blood, sweat and tears!

After seven days of hard labour, 17 silk-screens, two reams of chip shop paper, half a ton of black ink, buckets of blood sweat and tears and some very sore arms, we give you ‘TEN’.

‘TEN’ is a hand made publication, showcasing ten pieces of work from this year’s BA (Hons) Graphic Design and Illustration students at Staffordshire University in Stoke on Trent. The project was specially commissioned, designed and hand printed by the students for the D&AD New Blood exhibition at the Truman Brewery in London, later this month.


Special thanks go to John Ellis, Mathew Lucas, Gary Devreede and Lily Blythe for all their hard work and effort to realise this project. Also a special mention to John Platt for supplying buckets of ink, fresh screens every day and years of experience. We’d also like to thank Ben (I can count to eight) Anslow and Matt Hurst for helping us to re-print (oops, we made a spelling mistake, and had to re-print a whole section) the final record breaking four screen run, and also for his alertness on the job.

And finally to Jim Williams for all of his help, encouragement and chip shop paper folding techniques