On Sunday I decided to visit the National Centre for Craft and Design in Sleaford. I visit there occasionally just to see what exhibitions are on and to just get general inspiration for my projects and work.
There was 2 exhibitions on this time; Quentin Blake which I have done a separate post for and this one which is the Typographic Dante.
I only realised later on in the day when I fully read up the hand outs from the exhibition that the guy who created all of the pieces (Barrie Tullett) was actually one of my lecturers from when I was briefly at Lincoln University many moons a go.
I liked the exhibiton as it explored all different areas of type and print. The focus of the exhibition was to show how he visually communicates type into art to convey the story. The media used was letraset, lithoprint, lino, letterpress and typewriter art. I am particularly interested in the typewriter art and letterpress – as written in my design development this is what I have said I want to do for one of my postcards. Having read more about him (I only vaguely remember him for his lectures on magazine design and layout!) I have found that he has written a book on typewriter art which I am interested in reading.
These are some of his prints and design development:
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