Print Club

 

Print Club run by Fred Higginson, Kate Newbold & Rose Stallard is designed to work as a member’s water based screenprinting club for illustrators and designers, to produce posters, t- shirts, all things screenprinted.

Print Club aims to revive screenprinting by providing a laid back yet productive affordable environment, enabling designers to go from laptop to inky hands.

Print Club is once again bringing together a mixture of 35 emerging and established illustrators from pen to mouse to those who cover walls, for another summer bonanza of hand pulled, screen printed posters.

Last years exhibition brought together a mixture of up and coming illustrators and many well known names including Eine, Jody Barton, Pure Evil, Steve Wilson, AustinfromNew... They had over 1000 people through the door and sold out of most artists on the night!

See www.printclublondon.com for more info.

Craft Guerrilla

What a stitch up

By Clare Kelly

www.clarecatherinekelly.co.uk

If you're into craft, you'll probably be familiar with The Make Lounge. But if you're not, why not have a virtual visit...www.themakelounge.com It's a great venue but I'm not here to talk about that. I want to talk about craft guerrillas. They are not furry in any way but instead, this group has been set up as the antithesis to mainstream ordered craft.

Expect tattoo felt hearts and 'apple of my eye' magnets. SoupaGirl and I were lucky enough to go to one of the group's events at TML and made each other some cute gifts. Jo is now the proud owner of a fat little apple and she made me a little loveheart. The guerrilla girls were on hand to help out and told us about the regular nights they hold in E17. Not to be mistaken with the Essex Band. Ah, stay another day! 

The group have a range of craft packs with step-by-step instructions so there's not much room to go wrong and you get to take the result home. It's the perfect activity if you're a little fickle like me as you're less likely to give up. If you like the sound of it, why not take a little peek at the Craft Guerrilla website http://www.craftguerrilla.com/ and head on down to E17. Chances are, you'll have so much fun you might just want to stay another day...

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Root Ginger

So, redheads could be extinct within one hundred years. With no survival advantage to gingerism, it has been suggested that the gene may die out. Is that really the kind of evolutionary progress we want to see? Photographer Jenny Wicks has documented the increasingly elusive breed in a series called Root Ginger. Click here to read more.

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Jasper Goodall

Jasper Goodall is probably one of the best illustration artists in the UK right now. He's done work with mags including The Face, ID and Dazed & Confused, as well as commercial stuff for BMW, Nike, Gucci and a heap more, so you've almost certainly seen his art before. Click here to read more.

Jennifer Taylor

Jennifer Taylor's most recent sculptures depict chaotic messes of interlinking pipes, chains, and disposable objects coated in white paint and wax. Cancer cells, labyrinths and internal organs, are just some images that spring to mind when looking at these troubled objects. But who is Jennifer Taylor, how were these fantastic sculptures born and why? Click here to read more.

In A Dream

In a Dream is a family film. The director is Jeremiah Zagar. The main character is his father Isaiah Zagar, an eccentric artist who over the past four decades has covered more than 50,000 square feet of Philadelphia with stunning mosaic murals. The murals chronicle his love for his wife, Julia, and hint at the darker corners of an outlandish imagination. The film took Jeremiah about seven years to complete. Click here to read more.

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Coraline

Coraline is a high-definition 3D animated feature to be released in the UK in May. Director Henry Selick employs old-fashioned stop-motion animation enhanced by computers to create state-of-the-art 3D effects. For the last three years the most talented animators and puppet makers in the world have been making Coraline. Click here to read more.

Pogostick Pie - Vintage China Sale

South London Craft Market

Come along to Pogostick Pie's (Clare and Jo) first ever table top sale in Crystal Palace. We will be selling vintage china alongside a few limited edition prints from Anna and Jo Spencer and other unusual items.

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Steve Bell

Steve Bell is probably Britain's most recognisable political cartoonist. Over a 28 year career at the Guardian he has terrorized the rich and powerful, often depicting them as animals and monsters. Click here to read more.

Liz Hickok

Liz Hickok is a San Franciscan photographer who creates her own urban scenes. In the studio. Out of jelly. Click here to read more.

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Sarah King

Sarah King is a recent graduate of Brighton University. She has since been working as a freelance illustrator and designer. Inspired by science, space, animals and myths, Sarah's illustrations are intricately beautiful and bursting with words. Click here to read more.

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Chris Bianchi

Chris Bianchi is a freelance illustrator based in London. Since graduating from the Royal College of Art in 2005 he has self published two books, The Spinners 2003 and Box 2005. He is part of the well known illustration magazine Le Gun, and is now teaching and working on his new book. We visited his studio to ask him about his career so far and to demonstrate his drawing skills. Click here to read more.

The Black Heart Gang

The Black Heart Gang are a group of South African artists who have created a fantastic hand drawn animation, visually inspired by eastern art. The Tale of How is a story about a giant octupus whose desire is to consume every dodo resembling bird there is in sight, until Eddy the Engineer (a little white mouse) saves the day... Click here to read more.

Adrian Tomine

Adrian Tomine is widely considered one of the finest cartoonists and illustrators of his generation. His recent work is ranked alongside that of the iconic Chris Ware and Daniel Clowes. While he continues to work on his ongoing series Optic Nerve (currently entering its 15th year of publication), he's also illustrator of choice for the New Yorker and his newest book Shortcomings has generated critical and popular acclaim. For a man who began his career personally Xeroxing copies of his comics for distribution, and who stubbornly chooses to work in a medium as deliberately obscure as Independent Comics, his success is quite astounding. Will Bingley got in touch for a chat. Click here to read more.

Print Club

Print Club fun!

This weekend my Anna and I went to Print Club in Hackney to do some screen printing. We had lots of fun and highly recommend it, it is good to get messy sometimes.

Anna with her squeegee

Inky pink ready to print on my screen

Jo's second layer on

Anna making a beautiful mess

Layer 1 print

And then with the second layer blue speech bubbles

Anna's final 2 layer print of the Feather Duster!

Blog Banner

Blog Header Updated

Dave Vernon designed the Jan/Feb blog banner, with a wintery feel... being so cold outside and all. He will shortly be supplying me with work samples for his own page. Watch this space.

Soupa also has a new page which will be showcasing the past and present blog headers, they will be changing monthly so we can go back and see how the banners have developed over the year.

Soupa Animation by Anna Spencer

Something fun to watch

Watch this lovely Soupa promotion stop frame animation made by Anna Spencer back in 2007 - see some more recent work in her page and on her website at www.raspberrykisses.co.uk - remember to put the sound up on your mac or pc as the music makes it even more fun.

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Soupa Doodle

I found this while looking through an old sketchbook, I must have Soupa on the brain... If anyone else has any doodles or anything they want to post on here - like news, events, links - email me. They don't have to be Soupa related...

On-going project

Design the Soupa blog banner

Due to the nature of Soupa - we want you to dictate how it looks!

So the first banner was designed by yours truly (Ok-Jo) but we want you to design one for next month - January. You can download the Photoshop template from here you can design it in your own style - it will be a showcase for you and an easy way for you to develop some of your skills may it be illustration, photoshop skills, photography - whatever media you like - in your style, you can add typography, illustration, photography, texture - whatever! All we need on it is the Soupa logo, which will be on the photoshop template provided.

This is open to anyone and we will be looking to change it every month if you supply me with the designs we will get them on there - get making!

Requirements/Info on designing the banner

Size: Width 700 px x Height  225 px - 72dpi/RGB

Download the template here: Soupa Banner

Instructions using the template download here: coming soon

Soupa is Live

Soupa is live!!!

Welcome to the new site/blog! We will be developing this site in more ways than before for 2009, as before we will be showcasing Soupa friends work in the PAGES sections. I will also be using this site as space to upload some software tutorials and tips I have made during my time teaching Graphics BA at University of the Creative Arts and general graphics tips, production information and resources which might come in handy for you and your creative work.

If you wish to share anything you feel could be helpful for your creative peers by all means email me or ask me for access to the site and you can upload it yourself.

Keep checking back and you will see I will be updating much more regularly than before and adding links here and there to useful and interesting sites.

Hope to see you again soon!

Soupa Creative Network Welcome

Welcome to Soupa Creative Network!

What is 'Soupa'? Well, when thinking of a name for a networking site for creatives - different types of creatives. I thought the best place to start would be the pub - social and at times, creative! After a few beers some ideas were thrown around and the word soup came to mind, a combination of different ingredients resulting tasty dish! Ok- not the official dictionary definition but you get the idea.

Anyway - Soup wasn't available as a domain name... so Soupa was born!

You can on the left PAGES menu is a selection of Soupa's creative friends portfolios - check out their work and read about there experience and skills.

We will be updating this site on a regular basis and might even have a Soupa party in 2009!

Hope to see you again soon!

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