Felt-Tip poster
A1, 2006
hand-drawn
COMBINATIONS OF LINES IN TWENTY FOUR COLOURS, FOUR DIRECTIONS AND THREE WEIGHTS USING LETRASET TRIA SHONEN-MANGA PENS 2006. TO LEWITT
Exhibition text:
Grafik presents Felt-Tip, in collaboration with Letraset
An exhibition of original artwork by 30 leading graphic designers
Part of the London Design Festival 2006
The exhibition comprises specially-commissioned, original artwork by thirty leading artists from the international graphic design community. Each designer has been invited to create a unique poster using Letraset’s Tria Markers.
Felt-Tip brings together artists who make play, colour and craft a vital part of their work. Among the artists are living design legends from the pre-Mac era through to designers who made the transition from craft-based techniques, as well as a new generation of designers raised on digital design.
Catalogue text:
The poster title is self explanatory. It’s a sophisticated test card. There are twenty four colours in a set and each pen has three nib weights. The poster is part homage / part parody. Wikipedia tells me, in contemporary usage, parody is a form of satire that imitates another work of art in order to ridicule it. In 15th century music, ‘parody’ means a reworking of one kind of composition into another. The original greek means roughly ‘mock poem’. In making it, ideally there would be a division of labour between planning and execution, I felt like a machine, like Mayakovsky “I myself feel like a Soviet factory, manufacturing happiness.”
John Morgan
