DIEGO MENA INTERVIEW

Here's a little 'getting to know you' interview with one of Screenadelica's exhibiting artists' Diego Mena.

His amazing prints will be able to buy at the Screenadelica for Liverpool Sound City exhibition in May and you can view more of his work in the Artists section on this blog, or at www.didacus.co.uk

Where are you from and where are you now?

Madrid-London

How would you describe your style of work?

Apparently it's kind of abstract. People have told me that anyway. I'd say it varies but I'm definitely interested in patterns and I don't like making things too figurative. I'm going to try to incorporate more collages in the posters in the future, as this is another part of my work and I'd like to merge it with screen printing.

How did you start designing posters?

Well I was always involved with music, weather playing or organising gigs or working in the music industry, so it was only a matter of time before the design and screen printing creeped in. It's not just posters but also record covers and such. I have talked about it with a bunch of other poster artists and we came to the conclusion that it's our way of still being involved in music.

What's the nicest thing someone has said about your work?

Luke Drozd told me one of my posters was in someone's wedding list of presents. I thought that was pretty cool.

 

Take us through an average day designing for you.

Ride my bike to my studio, sit on my desk, get frustrated and eventually come up with something I'm happy with, I guess. I try to not have too many average days though, they're kinda boring.

What have you got lined up for the future?

I'm doing a poster for Group Inerane, a great band from Niger and a poster for the Oxes show in London, which is a bit of a dream come true. I'm collaborating with Heretic Printmakers for the Inerane poster. That should be fun. I'm doing a lot of freelance screen printing and hopefully I'll be pushing my printmaking practice to further limits.

Rich Kelly

Yep, these are screen printed! A really distinctive style, take a look at Rich Kelly's work and check out the bio on his website, it's a really thoughtful way of introducing himself. RFKELLY

Craig Robson Interview

Craig Robson is what you call creative. Plus he's a really nice guy. He works under the pseudonym Daggers for Teeth, and he's a whizz when it comes to drawing.

So, we decided to tie him to a chair, shine a bright light in his face and interrogate him. He loved it...

Where are you from/ Where are you now?

 I was born in Beverley, East Yorkshire and now I live in Liverpool.

How would you describe your work?

I would describe my work as increasingly line centric traditional inked illustrations. I have a fascination with mythology, traditions and fake symbolism and this permeates the imagery of the drawings I produce.

What music are you listening to at the moment?

Music wise I am listening to a lot of things like Stray From The Path, The BDDM, Converge, LetLive, The Chariot, Patrick Watson, Dead and Divine, City And Color, Bon Iver, BASTIONS etc. I’ve become a bit of a vinyl collector and I like finding new indie labels putting out limited records, I try to buy all the colored ones.Anything on Tangled Talk records or Deathwish usually floats my boat too.

What's the nicest thing anyone has ever said about your work?

I’m not really sure what the nicest thing people have said about my work is but the most helpful thing is when people tell me what’s wrong with it. What I can do better, and what works.

What's your routine?

My routine is as basic as possible, wake up-draw-eat-draw-sleep. Obviously its all not just as basic as that but when you break it down I guess that’s it. The eating’s the best bit of it all!

 

What have you got lined up for the future?

I try and make time in my routine to do other things like riding my bike, playing tetris on the toilet or looking for things I can have made to sell.

 

You can see loads more of Craig's work in the Artists section and his work is available to buy at Screenadelica exhibitions.

Check his website for updates and where to get your hands on more of Craig's work

DAGGERSFORTEETH

Status Serigraph

We don't half show you some lovely things to look at.

Status Serigraph AKA Justin Helton, designs vivid and beautiful imagery for ever single one of his posters. 

There's tons more posters, prints and where to buy on the website STATUSSERIGRAPH.COM

WeThreeClub Interview

We've gone and had a cheeky word with Chris and Alex White to find out a little more about the design duo and what they're getting up to.

We Three Club in five words.

Husband/Wife/Ambitious/Passionate/Geeky

 Where are you from and where are you now?

I am from Kingston, South West London and I now live with my wife Alex (the other half of WeThreeClub) in Cambridge.

How would you describe your style of work?

A mess of treatments, influences and colours.

How did you start designing posters?

Out of necessity really, i have been putting on shows for bands since i was about 16 so naturally made posters for them, 

i started screen-printing them in around 2006 and have become close friends with a lot of other designers who make posters though doing shows like Poster Roast, Screenadelica & Flatstock. Now we are a bit like a weird dysfunctional family.

What's the nicest thing someone has said about your work?

Cant think of any one thing in particular but whenever anyone buys anything we've created to hang in their house it's rather lovely.

What's your routine?

For making posters?

I guess just play around with ideas, sketch out initial drafts, listen to the band i'm working with, ink/tippex/scan/print/ink/tippex/scan/print and so on, then Photoshop. Usually with copious amounts of tea in between.

What have you got lined up for the future?

Lots of exciting things happening, we have just branded a new club night in London and each month will create a new collectable poster/flier. 

We are also working with a bar chain within London to create a new identity for one of their pubs, plus things like record label logos the usual band posters and working with a Beer Company (hopefully meaning free beer!)

Check out the Artists section to see more posters and WeThreeClubs website to see more of the other wonderful stuff they make.

WETHREECLUB

@WeThreeClub