Went to the Bath cider festival, was awesome although it would have been better if it didn’t finish at 11pm!

CIDER & PERRY MENU – (Those that we ’sampled’)

Pheasant Plucker (med) 3/10
Lilley’s apples & pears (med) 6/10
Bee sting perry (sweet) 7/10
Strawberry perry (sweet) 8/10
Kiwi perry (sweet) 9/10
Passion fruit perry (sweet) 8/10
Mr Whitehead’s sweet russet (sweet) 7/10
Janet’s jungle juice (med) 3/10
Whisky cask cider (med) 4/10
Dog dancer (med/dry) 8/10
Fiery fox (med) 6/10
Happy daze (med) 6/10
Thatcher’s heritage (med) 7/10
Cider pressed with blackberries (med) 8/10
Golden valley perry (med/sweet) 5/10
Rich’s legbender (med) 7/10
Black rat (med) 6/10

*you’ll never feel as ‘west-country’ as you do at a cider festival, especially if the Mangledwurzels are playing (only the best dam Wurzels tribute band this side of holy tree).

http://www.somersetmade.co.uk/ciderfestivals/

I mentioned this awhile back when I got this admittedly rather pink book for Christmas.

This really is a beautiful book, packed full of blackletter samples, with each typeface (and there are many) receiving it’s own sweet abstract design that would make a fantastic set of posters in their own right. When closed, from the size and shape you’d be forgiven for thinking it was a bible, though the vivid pink perhaps gives it away.

It’s a great book definitely work investing in if ‘mon amour fraktur’ or not, plus it comes with tonnes of fonts on disc. (available on Amazon.co.uk) I have mad Love for it!

Designed by: Judith Schalansky

http://www.fraktur-mon-amour.de/de/ (hope you can read German)

Saw this the other day, loved the film adaptation of the book and this billboard totally works but is it really ‘the perfect billboard’? I wonder how effective it actually was at an audience unfamiliar with American Psycho.

“The Perfect Billboard. Eggshell white with romalian type. Nice. Raised lettering, a subtle 7 inch bone border, and just look at the tasteful thickness of the headline. All perched on four evenly spaced 3.2 metre powder coated stanchions. My god, it even has a watermark.”

Advertising Agency: Saatchi & Saatchi Auckland, New Zealand
Creative Director: Mike O’Sullivan Art Director: Anthony Hatton Copywriter: Robbie Brammall Published: February 2008

Started a placement at robsondowry today recently ranked 53 in the south west top 100 creative companies 09, well I was impressed!

18 x 24″ Screen Print, Signed & Numbered, Edition of 450 made for artists for peace and justice in a collaboration with Studio Number One’s Cleon Peterson, Casey Ryder and Shepard Fairey. Photography by Tao Ruspoli with all proceeds going to Haiti. There could be no better reason to buy a beautiful limited edition art print, obey.

I myself am in the process of submitting a poster for the haiti poster project again with all proceeds going to Haiti. More on this when I figure out what I’m doing for it, if your an artist or designer get involved!