'TATS' T-shirt and tattoo set

Hello Interworld! You are looking well, have you been away?

Anyways, this is a post that has been a long time coming but, finally, I am able to proudly announce the launch of my brand new t-shirt 'TATS' in all its stupid glory. BEHOLD:

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We all love tattoos, right? Yes, of course we do. Well believe it or not I often get asked if I can design them for people, or folks send me images of one of my scrawls forever injected in ink-form under their pallid skin. Good for them! However it also got me thinking, wouldn't it benefit us all if there were a simple flash sheet for people to choose from with some of the best pictures that live inside my head? And wouldn't it be even better if this flash sheet where in t-shirt form? Well that's exactly what's gone and happened.

'TATS' is available in S, M, L and XL and in a limited run of 50 shirts, and as if that weren't enough each t-shirt comes with one of four sets of temporary tattoos based on the tee design to trick your friends and wow the ladies/gents of your dreams. Tattoo-licious!

You can get your 'TATS' t-shirt and temporary tattoo set from my online shop hither: http://lukedrozd.bigcartel.com/product/tats-t-shirt-and-tattoo-set

Enjoy!

And who knows, if you send me proof that you have actually got one of these things made all permanent on your body i may just send you something special in the post.

All the best

Luke

T.H.I.S is it...

Greetings all, I trust you are ok?

Just a quick message to firstly thank all that came down to the opening of the '100 Years' exhibition at Tottenham Hale International Studios (T.H.I.S), picked up a publication and had a drink with us. It was a swell evening. 

And for those that were unable to see the show on the opening night, this is a gentle reminder that it is open for one more day this Monday 31st October, 11am - 6pm. Amongst many excellent pieces from my studio colleagues my new work 'Totem Palm' is on show and it looks a little something like this: 

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Where is T.H.I.S? It's 5 mins walk from Tottenham Hale tube on the Victoria Line HERE. Best

Luke

 

 

New art, real word and otherwise

Hey hey!

With the recent slew of illustration based blog posts i have been putting up here, I thought I should probably post up some new pieces and info from the world of my fine art work. Well this is that very post. Here we go.

First up my piece Gigantor (above) will be part of the Matt Roberts Arts Salon show that opens Thursday 6th Oct. Come and cast a critical eye over my artistic wares from 18.00. Here's the blurb:

'Following 1650 applications to the Salon Art Prize 2011, the selection panel have chosen a total of 69 exhibitors, working in painting, sculpture, 2-D media and installation. The exhibition will take place at our gallery space, Matt Roberts Arts, 25 Vyner Street, E2 9DG, from 7th - 29th October, 2011, Friday to Sunday (12.00 - 18.00)'

For info on other exhibitors etc see http://www.salonartprize.com/

I also have a few new pieces that are ready to be seen by peoples eyes. Look at them now:

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Finally the studio co-op I am part of, T.H.I.S in Tottenham, North London is having an exhibition, open studio and publication launch to announce that it has managed to go a whole twelve months without closing down and has thus deemed it appropriate to celebrate this fact together with the centenary of our building. The show is called '100 Years' and there is a Facebook event thingy here. Hope to see you there.

Bye for now. Luke

 

A Town Called Awesome

Just realised that although this lauched a bit ago i haven't actually posted a blog thing about it so here goes...

Hail internet companions! I trust you are all of sound digital health?

The super chaps at Poster Roast have teamed up with the awesome folks at Awesome Merchandise to put togther a super awesome collaborative print and tee project. Six designers were selected and each will have there work included in print form with every order that Awesome Merch send out for a month long period. Each designer was asked to come up with something they think is awesome. I came up with a town called Awesome, population...YOU! Here it is: 

And as if that weren't enough you can also buy the design in t-shirt format to wear over your bodies here. Awesome!

The other awesome designers in the series are Drew Millward, WeThreeClub, Graham Pilling, Telegramme Studio & Twoducksdisco. Awesome. Right i have typed the word awesome enough now

Bye all

Awesome

Luke

Franz Forever!

Hello all,

Hope this finds you well. This is a quick, wee blog update about a recent project that has now launched.

As part of Ekko's, a live music venue in Utrecht, 25th anniversary celebrations, they teamed up with Push & Pull Posters aka Mara Piccione, to put together a series of commemorative posters for seminal and/or great gigs at the venue. Due to me having quite a bit of dirt on Mara she agreed to let me design a print for Franz Ferdinand. Here it is:

Inspired by the bands use of Constructivist imagery on previous releases i decided to try and filter Constructivist poster design through the streets of a moonlit Glasgow night. I guess to put it another way, what if Rodchenko had come from Scotland? If you like it, it can be purchased from my webstore at lukedrozd.com HERE.

The rest of the series features some amazing work (including a lovely one for I Am Kloot from my poster friend extraordinaire Mr.Graham Pilling) so go and have a squizz at them too HERE.

Bye for now, Luke

 

tUnE-yArDs and mini prints

 Hello all, I trust you are well in digital land

First off I have returned to my own shores. This means I have to get on with normal life and pay a load of outstanding bills (as in 'need to be paid' not 'really good') BUT it also means normal shipping times will resume for print purchases. Which neatly brings me on to the fact that new prints are available in the online shop at www.lukedrozd.com.

First up is the print I produced for tUnE-yArDs at Into The Great Wide Open festival. I hope it captures the manic, joyous energy of a band who were the highlight of a great weekend. It is available here.

Second up are the mini prints from the residency with Subwalk in Arnhem. These are available either as single prints or in sets of 3 or 5 and are available here.

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that's it for now. There will be a some pictures and info on my time at Flatstock Europe 6 later in the week and a new print for Franz Ferdinand available next week though so keep the peeper peeping

best, Luke

 

 

Subwalk This Way

Hello wonderous virtual friends and foes,

So my final week in Arnhem is coming to a close. There have been fun times, prints and artists talks all over the shop and i for one will miss be here at Subwalk, but a couple of days in Groningen beckon before Flatstock Europe 6 later this week.

Most of the week here has been taken up with finshing the design and printing of the mini art-print series 'This, That, The Other', a collection of one, two and three colour lino and photo-plate prints which i think, in general, have ended up working well. There are some pictures below of the works at various stages of completionas part of a very potted run down of the process for those print nerds who like that sort of thing:

1. Designs are taken from brain and made on paper with a pencil and pen:

2. Designs are then reversed and either transfered and cut out of lino:

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or designs are scanned, inverted and printed onto acetate. These are then exposed onto photo plates in the magic UV box and the washed out:

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3. They ready to print lino looks a little like this:

and the photo plates look a little like this:

4. Ink is mixed, again i use my brain here to think of the colour then my hands and eyes to make sure it matches what is in my brain. Beer helps but is optional:

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5. The ink is then rollered onto the plate/lino evenly and it's ready to print:

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6. Paper is carefully placed over the print surface and paper packing is placed on top to protect the print and give some pressure when the print-roller works its magic.

7. The print-roller is pulled/rolled over the paper. Underneath magic happens that i was unable to see due to my human eyes not be able to see through paper. The result is the ink has left the lino/plate and transfered to the paper BUT the right way round! Mind-boggling! Peg these up to dry, and get on with the next colour/print:

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Repeat as desired. Here we ended up with 11 designs of around 20 pieces each:

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I will have these with me in Hamburg for Flatstock if people are interested in purcuring them, and then online afterwards at the old online shop. Subwalk arranged a small pop-up show of then at a great bar/coffee place in Arnhem called Tape. If you are ever in Arnhem i recommend you check it out.

I also did a brief chat/artists talk/waffle time at ArtEZ, the art school here in Arnhem. I think it went well. I talked a mix of sage advice and inane jokes whilst showing work i had made, some of which had penises in/on it. The students seemed interested or at least had the good manners to pretend to be and you can't ask for more than that. Here's a photo i took after the talk of them waving at me but due to me being inept it is blurred and cack-handed. That seems somehow fitting though:

Right that's it for now, off to Hamburg,

bye for now,

Luke