catch one69a doing some live printing at Natural Selection preview, Mooch Art Gallery. Mooch is on Oldham Street but is moving home very soon!
Folk Ibiza
Folk, the home of our first ever screenprint and studio, arranged a festival in Ibiza. The festival encompassed the full balearic vibe, taking its guests to the most amazing venues on the island and throwing wonderful parties full of music loving people. Justin set us the task to produce banners for the festival in exchange for a free flight and accomodation. The brief was 'old coke slogans' . From this we produced various banners, posters and flags using coke bottle & bottle top images, changing the word coke to foke. With this we also produced flags with Folk Ibiza on them. ...
Make Your Own Tshirt! at Islington Mill
One69a and RAG are Collaborating, with you! Using applique paper and various types of fabric, participants will have the opportunity to create shapes from drawings and images that be ironed then stitched onto tshirts. This can be incorporated with screen printing either over the design or onto the fabric before applying. Using silk screens and hand cut stencils you can draw and print your own designs and combine this with a simple applique technique or use just use one of these methods to create your very own bespoke tshirt. You will also have the option of designing a tote bag instead ...
TXLW Japan Print
Tiger Child to raise money for Japan has been lovingly turned into a 5 colour screenprint that was printed by one69a at Islington Mill. There are only 4 available!!!! 1 will be sent to INK for Aid in Leeds Which looks like its going to be a pretty big event! The work will be displayed in an exhibition on Monday 25th April…bank holiday vibes with music, food and live drawing. Pre-opening party is the 21st. The other 1 will be sent to Papergirlmcr in Manchester Where it will be up for sale in Common bar from the 31st March - 6th April. The ...
Live Printing at Sounds From the Other City
Here are some snaps of the great day we had at Sounds From the Other City on May 1st. We were live printing the official merchandise for the event at Islington Mill in the Courtyard. [gallery size="medium"] photos by Fraser
Webster Primary School
one69A ran a project with a group of pupils from Webster Primary School, Moss Side. We took inspiration from the work of Henri Rousseau, in particular the amazing jungle scenes he depicted. http://www.henrirousseau.org/ We re created our own jungle by screen printing each element of the scene onto fabric then pasting the prints onto wooden board to create our very own mural - ace! [gallery size="thumbnail" columns="5"]
Melt Banana T’s. Conceived to finished in 2 hours
Melt Banana are playing tonight at Islington Mill. I love them but i have to drive to blackburn so missing the gig. Made some T's and posters for the band members. Brian designed. Gawain helped us colour in the tracing paper.[gallery columns="6" size="thumbnail"]
Spearfish Workshops
one69A has been working for Spearfish on a brilliant project with Peel Hall Primary School in Little Hulton Working with Rich (Spearfish's mega talented illustrator!) we helped children from years 1, 2 & 3 bring their characters to life! Whilst rich encouraged imaginative thinking and drawing, we took the pupils drawings and screen printed them onto tshirts and fabric. The fabric prints will be made into a giant mural for display in school. The aim of this project was for each child to develop a character using various creative methods. This character can then be used in the future as part of a ...
Adidas Brand Party Poster
Two different poster design printed for the Adidas brand party on Coronation Street [gallery size="medium" columns="4"]
Future Everything Live Printing @ The Umbro Showroom
On Saturday we printed in the Umbro showroom for Future Everything. The t-shirt designs were submitted by various artist and designers through a competition held on the Future Everything website. Many thanks to Tasha Whittle (TXLW), Martyn Mills (Starvin Artist), Danielle Lovett, Kate Dunstone, Haroon Ehsan and James Hayes for the designs. We would also like to thank Alfred Darlington (Daedalus) for gracing us with his presence and showing us a new technique in the live printing that he picked up from the Hit & Run crew in LA. Pictures by Fraser Chapman and Jermyn [gallery size="thumbnail" columns="6"]
