Ambigraph Studios
Ambigraph Studios are now up and running in South London!
As well as a being photo studio providing a cosy space for portrait shoots, product and still life photography, we run our design business from here and finally have space for some lo-fi relief printmaking, including a small Adana letterpress and a rack of lead type. We’re excited about getting grubby fingers but we also have an A3+ photo printer to have full control over printing our photographs, books and posters (soon to be available in our own online shop).
After the studio photos you can see an example of a handmade concertina book we made using images from a portrait shoot.
Visit our site to see examples of our work and get in touch if you have a design, print or photography project you’d like to talk to us about.
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Cloaks remix CD on 3by3 Records
Versions Grain, a CD of remixes from Versus Grain by Cloaks has been released on 3by3 Records – photography and design by Ambigraph, revising the original artwork. We created a restrained design to allow space to focus on the density of the music.
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Tags: 3by3 records, CD design, grid, industrial, music, noise, packaging
Hypnograph project
The launch of another Ambigraph photographic project..
“Hypnograph is a series of images of all of the different places Anna slept overnight from 2005 until the beginning of 2010. This is a project with strict rules. All pictures of beds are taken the morning after being slept in, using only ambient light, available cameras and where possible from a similar viewpoint.”
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Tags: ambient light, archive, australia, available light, bed, camping, cuba, duvet, hotel, hypno, kenya, morning after, pillow, sheets, sleep, sleeping bag, tent, travel, wales
We’re proud to announce that Twiss Drinks have just launched their new brand, with identity and packaging designed by Ambigraph. It’s been exciting to be involved in a new brand from the start and now to see the packaging in people’s hands. There’s been great feedback so far and you should start seeing the products in the shops anytime now.
Our intention was to create an identity that conveys the freshness of the brand and the fact that they’re doing something different in a crowded market. We did that partly by creating a hand-lettered logotype, flavour names and strapline. The packaging aims to convey the flavours primarily using colour, with the ‘twist’ flavour cutting into the main colour, much like it does when you taste the drink.
We wish them every success in getting Twiss off the ground and are excited to be along for the ride!
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Struth!
Thomas Struth, Paradise 15, Yakushima Japan 1999
At Ambigraph we have a strong affinity for Thomas Struth’s work. Having been to his current exhibition at the Whitechapel Gallery, we’ve realised how much his approach for the Paradise series resonates with our thinking behind The Withdrawing Room project.
Some words from Struth about the Paradise images:
“I am very fascinated with complex structures and depth of vision and detail. The jungle pictures have no immediate history of reference, so you must surrender your usual faculties and analytical tools and surrender to just looking. There is nothing to think about too much, so the act of looking becomes more meditative.
They present a kind of empty space: emptied to elicit a moment of stillness and internal dialogue. You have to be able to enjoy this silence in order to communicate with yourself–and eventually with others.“
Not only does this convey a lot of similar thinking that led us to create The Withdrawing Room, it also reminds us of one of our favorite pieces of literature/film Solaris, where the intelligent ocean planet that is too large for humans to understand as a single lifeform, allows those close to it a deeper, and often darker, understanding of themselves. There’s also a visual similarity to the lush and serene opening scene’s of Tarkovsky’s film of Solaris.
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Dermagraph Calendar – June 2011
Welcome to our final Dermagraph calendar of the month. This has been a very enjoyable project through which we are honoured to have worked with many wonderful models.
For this final month we have decided to revisit Mistress Jezabel as there were too many great pictures from her shoot to choose just one. She was the most heavily tattooed model we photographed, one of the most interesting and fun to work with and really embodied the spirit of the project. We are grateful that she found the time to model for us in her busy diary of international domination and postgraduate studies. As before, go to her website if you want to get to know her a little better.
Thank you for following this project and keep in touch to see what we get up to in the future.
The wallpapers are available in the following sizes. To download, click the one that matches your display size most closely. You can unstuff the images using Stuffit Expander (Mac or Win). Then select the image as your desktop using system preferences > desktops and screensavers.
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By downloading these wallpaper images, you agree to these terms:
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• You may not edit, alter, or modify this image without Ambigraph’s permission.
• You may not sell or distribute this image.
• All images copyright Ambigraph 2011.
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Tags: alternative modelling, calendar, desktop, domination, flourish, flower, glove, may, mistress, ornament, piercing, red, retro, rockabilly, screen, tattoo, tattoo photography, tattooed girl, tattooed ladies, tattooed lady, tattooed women, tattoos, typography, wallpaper
Dermagraph Calendar – May 2011
As our year of tattooed women starts to draw to a close, our penultimate inked lady is Miss Ruby Fortune. Based in London, Ruby is a burlesque performer, singer in a rockabilly band (The Drowning Sorrows) and currently models for Limb Clothing, amongst others. She has also featured in a variety of tattoo magazines. Find her on facebook.
The wallpapers are available in the following sizes. To download, click the one that matches your display size most closely. You can unstuff the images using Stuffit Expander (Mac or Win). Then select the image as your desktop using system preferences > desktops and screensavers.
1920 x 1200 px (widescreen 16:9)
1920 x 1080 px (new widescreen iMac)
1680 x 1050 px (widescreen 16:9)
1600 x 1200 px
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1024 x 768 px
By downloading these wallpaper images, you agree to these terms:
• These images are for desktop wallpaper use only, not for commerical.
• You may not edit, alter, or modify this image without Ambigraph’s permission.
• You may not sell or distribute this image.
• All images copyright Ambigraph 2011.
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Dermagraph Calendar – April 2011
This month we have alternative model Kendra Lee. From California, she is a Hell Bunny model and is working towards owning her own tattoo mag. Check out her blog here.
The wallpapers are available in the following sizes. To download, click the one that matches your display size most closely. You can unstuff the images using Stuffit Expander (Mac or Win). Then select the image as your desktop using system preferences > desktops and screensavers.
1920 x 1200 px (widescreen 16:9)
1920 x 1080 px (new widescreen iMac)
1680 x 1050 px (widescreen 16:9)
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1280 x 800 px (widescreen 16:9)
1024 x 768 px
By downloading these wallpaper images, you agree to these terms:
• These images are for desktop wallpaper use only, not for commerical.
• You may not edit, alter, or modify this image without Ambigraph’s permission.
• You may not sell or distribute this image.
• All images copyright Ambigraph 2011.
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Dermagraph Calendar – March 2011
Our Miss March is the multi-talented Luki Luck. One half of award-winning burlesque duo Femme Ferale, and saucy bingo caller for Underground Rebel Bingo Club, she has straddled the globe to bring her charms to people everywhere, and is now available for your desktop delight. Visit her website for more info, pictures and showreels and to find out about upcoming events.
The wallpapers are available in the following sizes. To download, click the one that matches your display size most closely. You can unstuff the images using Stuffit Expander (Mac or Win). Then select the image as your desktop using system preferences > desktops and screensavers.
1920 x 1200 px (widescreen 16:9)
1920 x 1080 px (new widescreen iMac)
1680 x 1050 px (widescreen 16:9)
1600 x 1200 px
1280 x 960 px
1280 x 800 px (widescreen 16:9)
1024 x 768 px
By downloading these wallpaper images, you agree to these terms:
• These images are for desktop wallpaper use only, not for commerical.
• You may not edit, alter, or modify this image without Ambigraph’s permission.
• You may not sell or distribute this image.
• All images copyright Ambigraph 2010.
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The Withdrawing Room
The Withdrawing Room is a new project from Ambigraph. Taking the form of weekly photo blog, it delivers a series of images from the Ambigraph vaults.
Based on the sixteenth century term, The Withdrawing Room aims to create a space to withdraw from the daily bombardment of directed information we receive, to a more ambiguous space where it is left to the participant to immerse themselves in the internal rhythm of what is being revealed and to absorb what is happening in their own time, in their own way. Explanation is kept to the bare minimum aside from this loose guideline.
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Tags: contemplate, daydream, immersion, pause, removal, solitude, space, time, withdraw
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