Showing posts with label Keira Rathbone. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Keira Rathbone. Show all posts

Friday 1 April 2016

Hobsons Beer?

Now there are some people out there who think my name is Justin Fenner! ...but actually my name is Justin Hobson. So imagine my surprise when I discovered that there is a brewery called HOBSONS. This brewer with their smart identity is based in Worcestershire and they brew many ales with interesting names such as Twisted Spire, Town Crier, Shropshire Stout and my personal favourite 'Old Prickly'
 
I am particularly impressed by this fab beermat for Old Prickly. It's actually Typewriter Art by an artist called Keira Rathbone who's featured on this blog before here. 
Detail of beermat...  
Given the date, there will be some of you who might be thinking this is another elaborate April Fool's day joke (like my now infamous Royal Wedding post!) but I can assure you it's not, just have a look at the HOBSONS website: http://www.hobsons-brewery.co.uk/
Posted by Justin Hobson 01.04.2016

Monday 8 September 2014

From Q to M – three centuries of typewriter art

There is a talk at the St Brides Foundation which should be absolutely superb and you should know about!

Barrie Tullett is Senior Lecturer in Graphic Design at the Lincoln School of Art and Design, and cofounder of The Caseroom Press, an independent publisher of artists' books based in Lincoln and Edinburgh. As a freelance graphic designer, his clients have included Canongate Books, Princeton University Press and Penguin Books, amongst others. He has recently published a book titled "Typewriter Art: A Modern Anthology" and he will guide the audience through three centuries of typewriter art
Image courtesy of Laurence King
Special guest Keira Rathbone will be live typing throughout the evening demonstrating how this most rigorous and unforgiving of machines still inspires today. Keira Rathbone’s unique art explores the often forgotten creative tool the typewriter. Her works involve using a typewriter as a drawing and mark making instrument, a discipline that has evolved over a ten year period to create works as stunningly complex as they are beautiful and absorbing. Works and performances are developed from many sources; live events, people and architecture prove that the typewriter is a valid and provocative medium that challenges our perceptions of technology and the creative process.
Image courtesy of Laurence King
Copies of Typewriter Art: A Modern Anthology by Barrie Tullet, published by Laurence King, will be available to purchase on the evening at £19.95 each.
Image courtesy of Laurence King
The talk is on Wednesday 24 September 2014 at 7pm

Don't put it off - book a ticket now - Tickets £15.00 • Friends of St Bride Library £12.50 • Students (bring NUS card) £10.00
You can book your ticket here:
 
Posted by Justin Hobson 08.09.2014