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Wedding invitation #2.

Printing a white ink onto a one sided brown kraft 360gsm board (Robert Horne’s ‘Custom Kote’ in fact).

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Wedding invitation #2.

Printing a white ink onto a one sided brown kraft 360gsm board (Robert Horne’s ‘Custom Kote’ in fact).

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Season’s greetings – Christmas card.

Merry Christmas everyone – thanks for buying my prints, commissioning work and stopping by the web site. Here’s to 2012.

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Season’s greetings – Christmas card.

Merry Christmas everyone – thanks for buying my prints, commissioning work and stopping by the web site. Here’s to 2012.

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Cornershop – The Singhles Club.

Working closely with the lovely folks from Cornershop – a limited edition set of 6 x 7″ single sized prints featuring artwork of, or inspired by, the Cornershop Singhles Club. Original artwork by some amazing artists/illustrators. The whole project, from

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Cornershop – The Singhles Club.

Working closely with the lovely folks from Cornershop – a limited edition set of 6 x 7″ single sized prints featuring artwork of, or inspired by, the Cornershop Singhles Club. Original artwork by some amazing artists/illustrators. The whole project, from

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Aled Lewis/Brandhouse.

A new print for a talk at Brandhouse, this time Aled Lewis is the speaker. Original artwork by Aled, an A3 poster, printing onto a 175gsm GF Smith Colplan Mist, using black, water-based acrylic ink. More photos here.

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Aled Lewis/Brandhouse.

A new print for a talk at Brandhouse, this time Aled Lewis is the speaker. Original artwork by Aled, an A3 poster, printing onto a 175gsm GF Smith Colplan Mist, using black, water-based acrylic ink. More photos here.

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“Heroes” A2 print.

”Tomorrow belongs to those who can hear it coming”. A 1977 press ad for David Bowie’s wonderful album, scanned and tweaked for screen printing. Experimenting with black ink and printed roughly onto thick kraft board, trying out different inks and

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“Heroes” A2 print.

”Tomorrow belongs to those who can hear it coming”. A 1977 press ad for David Bowie’s wonderful album, scanned and tweaked for screen printing. Experimenting with black ink and printed roughly onto thick kraft board, trying out different inks and

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Hip Hop Hooray – now available to buy.

Lots of new projects happening this summer, but in the meantime…a print of mine is now available to buy in a shop in Brighton. It’s the Hip Hop Hooray print, pictured below: A very limited edition of 5, flouro pink

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Hip Hop Hooray – now available to buy.

Lots of new projects happening this summer, but in the meantime…a print of mine is now available to buy in a shop in Brighton. It’s the Hip Hop Hooray print, pictured below: A very limited edition of 5, flouro pink

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Paul Catherall/Brandhouse.

This is the latest print for the Notinhouse series of talks at Brandhouse – this time a 2 colour screen print for Paul Catherall – which rather brilliantly raised more than £500 for a children’s unit in Homerton Hospital in Hackney (which

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Paul Catherall/Brandhouse.

This is the latest print for the Notinhouse series of talks at Brandhouse – this time a 2 colour screen print for Paul Catherall – which rather brilliantly raised more than £500 for a children’s unit in Homerton Hospital in Hackney (which

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Wedding invitation #1.

Some wedding invitations, hot off the press and drying on the racks. An A6 invitation, screen printed in 2 colour (took a while to mix the inks to get the colours spot on but got there in the end. They

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Wedding invitation #1.

Some wedding invitations, hot off the press and drying on the racks. An A6 invitation, screen printed in 2 colour (took a while to mix the inks to get the colours spot on but got there in the end. They

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AETP – a 2 colour experiment.

A new project and the first in a while – some experimentation with inks, and in particular layering 2 colours on top of one another. The prints are A4 in size, onto a 220gsm smooth ivory board. I went to

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AETP – a 2 colour experiment.

A new project and the first in a while – some experimentation with inks, and in particular layering 2 colours on top of one another. The prints are A4 in size, onto a 220gsm smooth ivory board. I went to

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We are going to be friends – postcard.

A new A6 postcard, using silver ink on a few different shades of Colorplan.

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We are going to be friends – postcard.

A new A6 postcard, using silver ink on a few different shades of Colorplan.

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Christmas card 2010.

A very Merry Christmas from A New Star in the Sky. Thanks for reading the blog this year, there have been so many more visits to this blog than I had ever expected. There has been so much going on

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Christmas card 2010.

A very Merry Christmas from A New Star in the Sky. Thanks for reading the blog this year, there have been so many more visits to this blog than I had ever expected. There has been so much going on

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Supermundane/ Brandhouse.

Hot off the press and onto the blog – this is the latest poster for the Notinhouse series of talks at Brandhouse, coming up on 11th November. The talk is this time from Supermundane, and the poster is an A3

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Supermundane/ Brandhouse.

Hot off the press and onto the blog – this is the latest poster for the Notinhouse series of talks at Brandhouse, coming up on 11th November. The talk is this time from Supermundane, and the poster is an A3

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Numbers.

Some new postcards – specifically, a range designed to be birthday cards for kids, in two different colourways. I found it so difficult to buy birthday cards for friends of my daughters, I decided to make my own – the

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Numbers.

Some new postcards – specifically, a range designed to be birthday cards for kids, in two different colourways. I found it so difficult to buy birthday cards for friends of my daughters, I decided to make my own – the

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Anthony Burrill/Brandhouse.

Keely from NotInhouse at Brandhouse asked me if I’d like to print some limited edition posters for a talk Anthony Burrill was giving for them on the 16th September – how could I have said no?! The artwork is a one-off

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Anthony Burrill/Brandhouse.

Keely from NotInhouse at Brandhouse asked me if I’d like to print some limited edition posters for a talk Anthony Burrill was giving for them on the 16th September – how could I have said no?! The artwork is a one-off

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Time to get away.

Let’s get away for a while. Printing a water based acrylic black onto a lovely 350gsm GF Smith Pistachio Colorplan. The image is a reproduction of a nineteenth century linocut, which I’ve put together with the Baskerville typeface.

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Time to get away.

Let’s get away for a while. Printing a water based acrylic black onto a lovely 350gsm GF Smith Pistachio Colorplan. The image is a reproduction of a nineteenth century linocut, which I’ve put together with the Baskerville typeface.

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Fluorescent adolescent.

Trying out a flouroescent pink and purple acrylic ink onto 750 micron greyboard.

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Fluorescent adolescent.

Trying out a flouroescent pink and purple acrylic ink onto 750 micron greyboard.

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You’re just my type – postcard.

Romance is certainly not dead! This is my latest card (only 4 months late for Valentine’s Day…), probably my favourite so far. I’m proud of this one, it could be one of the best things I’ve printed, certainly this year.

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You’re just my type – postcard.

Romance is certainly not dead! This is my latest card (only 4 months late for Valentine’s Day…), probably my favourite so far. I’m proud of this one, it could be one of the best things I’ve printed, certainly this year.

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Impressions.

This is the A New Star in the Sky rubber stamp I had made specifically to go on the back of all the postcards I’m printing, but I may well use it on my tshirt tags too, really like how

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Impressions.

This is the A New Star in the Sky rubber stamp I had made specifically to go on the back of all the postcards I’m printing, but I may well use it on my tshirt tags too, really like how

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Some candy talking.

2 legends on one postcard: Steve Martin and John Candy, from Planes, Trains and Automobiles. Printing black ink onto blue and green 225gsm Kaskad boards, plus the unlined grey board. Couldn’t resist another grey board postcard – I think this could

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Some candy talking.

2 legends on one postcard: Steve Martin and John Candy, from Planes, Trains and Automobiles. Printing black ink onto blue and green 225gsm Kaskad boards, plus the unlined grey board. Couldn’t resist another grey board postcard – I think this could

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Trans Europe Express.

OK this this postcard is of, of course, the incredible Kraftwerk (I’m sure you knew that already…), this time printing onto a fluorescent pink (the photo doesn’t do it justice, the pink is really bright) self adhesive, so they are

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Trans Europe Express.

OK this this postcard is of, of course, the incredible Kraftwerk (I’m sure you knew that already…), this time printing onto a fluorescent pink (the photo doesn’t do it justice, the pink is really bright) self adhesive, so they are

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A message to you, Rudy.

It’s the Huxtable family! Hooray! I used to love this show growing up, all the postcards I’ve printed this week are about people who have made some sort of impact on my life, and when I was about 10 years

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A message to you, Rudy.

It’s the Huxtable family! Hooray! I used to love this show growing up, all the postcards I’ve printed this week are about people who have made some sort of impact on my life, and when I was about 10 years

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Paid in full.

So the first of my new new postcards – one every day this week, the first one features Eric B and Rakim, hip hop legends. Here I’m printing black ink onto an unlined 1250 micron greyboard, I really like this

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Paid in full.

So the first of my new new postcards – one every day this week, the first one features Eric B and Rakim, hip hop legends. Here I’m printing black ink onto an unlined 1250 micron greyboard, I really like this

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Never too much.

  Some more adventures with metallic silver: Click the image to see a close up – I love the grey board, you can really see the grains if you look closely, and how the black ink lies on top of

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Never too much.

  Some more adventures with metallic silver: Click the image to see a close up – I love the grey board, you can really see the grains if you look closely, and how the black ink lies on top of

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Colours.

Experiments with different inks and different papers. Get in touch if you’d like me to send you a postcard. Red ink on greyboard. Blue ink on red. Silver ink on metallic blue. Silver ink on fluorescent pink self adhesive. Red

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Colours.

Experiments with different inks and different papers. Get in touch if you’d like me to send you a postcard. Red ink on greyboard. Blue ink on red. Silver ink on metallic blue. Silver ink on fluorescent pink self adhesive. Red

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Kids.

A first attempt at a tshirt for children. I’ve found most kids clothes to be either so expensive, or just not very interesting. So I thought I’d have a go at making some. Printing 2 colours onto a white tshirt.

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Kids.

A first attempt at a tshirt for children. I’ve found most kids clothes to be either so expensive, or just not very interesting. So I thought I’d have a go at making some. Printing 2 colours onto a white tshirt.

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Scarlet fields.

An A4 poster, printing 2 colours onto a 350gsm uncoated, unbleached board.

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Scarlet fields.

An A4 poster, printing 2 colours onto a 350gsm uncoated, unbleached board.

This must be the place

This must be the place.

This must be the place. A home for my screen printing venture, hand made prints from my studio in east London. Alongside my own work I collaborate with designers and illustrators to create engaging, bold, romantic works. I hope to

This must be the place

This must be the place.

This must be the place. A home for my screen printing venture, hand made prints from my studio in east London. Alongside my own work I collaborate with designers and illustrators to create engaging, bold, romantic works. I hope to