Ostara - a New Restaurant in Chorlton
Ostara is a new restaurant opening in Chorlton by the good folks behind Dulcimer. A to M have been lending a hand with their identity. Designing menus is hungry business… what’s for lunch?
I Love L4
Just to briefly mention that there are still a few posters left for sale in our WSAG shop. Along side some swish new tees and a fancy tote bag to carry your fanzines around in. Wear with pride. I say that for Nick, obviously as an M1 based company, Ben and I remain rather less partisan…
We’ve moved
A little overdue to mention, but we moved into new premises at the end of March. We’re now situated on Dale Street, a little closer to Piccadilly on the fifth floor, with oodles more light and a few new plants.
Full Address: Four&Five, Fifth Floor, 31 Dale Street, Manchester M1 1EY
Just a quick update too, as we’ve been a bit too busy to update the portfolio. We’re finishing off the last few bits for the Queer Up North festival. This year we were asked to update their identity as well as take care of their marketing material. We’re pretty excited to see the poster featuring the tongue-in-cheek green balloon appearing all over Manchester, superbly shot by Tom van Schelven. We also redesigned their new site, the build was taken care of by the great folks over at Glitterfish.
Elsewhere, logo and master label for the first release on Berlin’s freshly minted Just Another Beat. Finishing touches have just been applied to the forthcoming release from Finnish duo The Gentleman Losers. DVD packaging for the youth film project Spring Trinity run by Littlesar and MYVP. Identity for new restaurant Ostara and work on a project for Breakthrough Breast Cancer alongside the usual promo stuff for Night & Day, Dulcimer and the Faktion nights.
Margaret Morris - Dancing, Photographs by Fred Daniels
Whilst at home over xmas, I was browsing through the bookshelves for things of interest. My mum is a choreographer and has quite a few dance related books. This one caught my eye, mainly because of the beautiful photographs, but the typesetting is pretty nice too. It probably had a nice dust jacket originally but no sign of that now unfortunately. I can’t find a publication date in the book either, but it’s plainly somewhere in the 1920’s.
There’s some interesting stuff in the book about Margaret’s ideas on dance and health. She also talks about illuminated outdoor performances at night, which must have really been something to behold if these photographs are anything to go by.
She mentions in the preface that the photographer Fred Daniels was primarily a painter. I think that really comes across in his photographs.
Some further info on Margaret Morris.
When Skies Are Grey… buy posters!
A set of covers for the WSAG Everonian Fanzine are now available as fancy fine art prints to adorn big boys walls.
Buy them here.
P&O Matchbook
When my grandmother moved house, I found some great pieces of graphic ephemera tucked away. By far my favourite is this matchbook, printed in high-vis orange and blue on the outside (I’m a sucker for complimentary colours). Inside a tangy combination of deep indigo and a cool magenta for the sulphur tips.
Having the destinations the company serviced individually printed on to the matchsticks - wow.
Boozy Design
A couple of years ago I went to Prague for a few days. On the way up to the castle I stumbled across a cool little shop that was packed full of old posters, postcards, magazines, matchboxes and suchlike. These labels from alcohol bottles caught my eye.
Martial Art Postcards
In amongst the previously mentioned postcards was a great set of martial art poses. Here are some of the best ones.
