Ambigraph 2.0: a fresh new site
We’re pleased to announce that we have a sparkling new website! We’ve completely overhauled it to show off our new design & photography work, to bring the blog into line with the site design and to introduce a shop where we can sell our prints and photos. We’ve also made it fully responsive to make sure visitors have a great experience whichever device they are browsing on.
The site is live and the shop will be revealed in the next couple of months, so have a look around and let us know what you think.
*NB* We won’t be posting here anymore so we’d appreciate it if you could resubscribe via email or your favorite RSS reader here. Thanks for reading!
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Tags: ambigraph, custom theme, mobile first, orange, responsive, theme design, website, wordpress
“I don’t like colour. The real factories that I love, they’re black-and-white experiences. Colour putrefies them… I really love the oil-impregnated earth, you know, where the earth is gleaming with black oil and there is steel and brick and glass and these machines, and smokestacks and the smoke and the fire. It’s an amazing, phenomenal thing.”
David Lynch
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Tags: black and white photography, david lynch, exhibition, factory, fire, gas, germany, London, photographer's gallery, poland, shadow, smoke, warhol, william burroughs
“Radiant Dusk” by Dan Mumford
Following on from last year’s Radiant Dawn print, I’ve just received this lush new Dan Mumford print from the same series (although my backlog of pictures to frame isn’t getting any smaller). Stunning colour palette and tight composition.
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Tags: apocalyptic, dan mumford, lava, nuclear, poster design, screen print
Lowe Motion Identity
I’ve just completed this identity for my good friend Lindford Lowe’s new video production company.
Check out his showreel here:
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Tags: identity design, logo design, moving image, video production, video production company, visual identity
Dan Mumford screen prints
I was a bit gutted that this amazing Soundgarden poster by Dan Mumford was sold out by the time I found out about it but luckily, I bagged the equally impressive screen print “Radiant Dawn” from his online store. All is well.
‘Radiant Dawn’ by Dan Mumford
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Tags: apocalyptic, dan mumford, octopus, poster design, radiant dawn, screen print, soundgarden
We’ve recently completed an identity project for Goose Green Clinic in East Dulwich, South London which culminated in a website, postcard, business stationery and banner. The identity is inspired by the holistic nature of the clinic and the complementary therapies and classes they offer with an emphasis on healing and energising colours.
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Tags: alternative therapy, branding, business, design, east dulwich, goose green, healing, health, holistic, identity design, logo design, south london, visual identity, web design, website
The Trees
Not sure where to start with Kim Høltermand’s incredibly serene landscape and architectural photography because there’s so much of it and it’s consistently impressive, although some of the series could have been edited down a bit. His exploratory approach really appeals to me. I particularly like the fact that he creates series of images with a similar theme and explores different facets of that theme within fairly tight parameters.
Here are some individual examples, all from larger series that you can see on his site.
Tuve
Silo
Deserted City
Beach Stations
Copenhagen Architecture
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Tags: architecture, arts, glow, kim høltermand, landscape, photography
Etching course
I recently did another 3 day etching course. It was great to be back amongst the inks and smells of the etching studio at Camberwell College of Arts, but 3 days is hardly enough time to get your juices flowing with a process as slow and methodical as etching. (Many thanks to the tutor Brian Hodgson for his generous input and direction).
This time I tried taking an impression of some scrim (rough fabric used in the inking process) using a soft ground on a zinc plate, then etched it in stages to create some deeper lines and some more delicate ones. The most successful prints were the ones where I inked the plate using a couple of different rusty colours, and the blind embossings. The prints are reminiscent of tributaries and turbulent geographical features.
First version
Second version – printed with colour gradient
Third version – after some lines were etched for longer 
Fourth version – blind embossing 
My other experiment was using a photo-polymer plate, a type of light-sensitive plate which can be exposed using a UV exposure unit (normally used for screen printing) and washed in water.. so no harsh acids. The potential for bringing digital media into the workflow but retaining the physicality and unpredictability of printmaking is very exciting. I did a few tests with this flower image which gave a very dark print even though the original image was quite light. There doesn’t seem to be as much creativity in the inking process as there is with acid-etched plates but still something I’d like to play around with more, especially as you don’t need access to an etching studio to produce the plates.
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Tags: blind embossing, botanical, distressed, embossing, erosion, etching, geographical, ink, intaglio, natural patterns, organic form, photo polymer, print, printmaking, solar plate
I just visited an enthralling exhibition by artist Gemma Anderson at the Eb & Flow Gallery near Old Street in London. She has developed a focused artistic practice in which she takes an analytical approach that is similar to scientific research. She uses observational drawing as the foundation for explorations in different media, most notably copper-plate etching and hand-painted ceramics. Her interests lie in observing, researching and documenting the similarities in structure across all types of natural forms (animal, vegetable and mineral) and these interests come together in this exhibition under the name Isomorphology, a term she has coined. (The book published by Super/Collider is worth checking out and only a fiver).
I’ve always looked to science and nature as an inspiration for visual work so it’s great to see such a body of work coming from this kind of approach. Most of all I love her hand coloured etchings. Strongly recommended.. on until 6th April. More text and image at her site.
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Tags: animal, art, copperplate, drawing, etching, exhibition, form, London, mineral, natural, natural patterns, nature, observation, organic, research, science, structure, vegetable
John Davide Animation website
I’ve just completed a website for my good friend John Davide who produces painstaking stop-frame animations with a great flair for narrative. I created the structure for a site using WordPress, including a header that helps convey his handmade style and his character illustration. His atmospheric drawings are also gorgeous and I hear he’ll be selling them on t-shirts and as limited edition screen prints very soon…
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Tags: animation, banner, drawing, illustration, lettering, stop frame, Stop motion, typography, web design, website, wordpress
