A bunch of Airsiders recently went on a screen-printing course at Print Club London. Not content with merely learning, we decided that each of the six participants would produce a print based around a common theme.
What with there being six people and all of them having six on the brain, we called it The Joy of Six. Check out all six prints below along with more on the inspiration behind each of them.
Alex revisited his Penguin Pool t-shirt (no longer in stock I’m afraid) and screen print to resculpt the classic curves of Berthold Lubetkin’s London Zoo penguin pool design into the shape of the number six.
You may have p-p-p-p-picked up on the fact that he added a sixth penguin. It wouldn’t have fitted the theme otherwise.
Chris’ inspiration was the classic six-gun revolver commonly carried by Wild West gunslingers and how it appears in the big bad world of a child’s imagination.
The little kid wears a paper hat and uses his hands for guns but in his head he is the biggest baddest sheriff in the living room/hallway area. Lee Van Cleef with milk teeth if you will.
Our intern Erica took the opportunity to indulge in her latest obsession and draw six dogs in fancy dress.
From a piratical bulldog to the very disturbing hotdog this canine sextet is the wonkiest team of sleigh dogs ever assembled.
Not only does the devil have all the best tunes, he also has the best numbers. Jamie’s print recalls heady days of childhood.
Penny sweets, endless summers and the relentless pursuit of an audience with his Satanic Majesty.
The joy of six. . .mmmmmh 6. . .mmmmh. . .69? Anyone familiar with Malika’s previous work might have guessed her print would go this way.
Her naughty Frenchness kicked in again and here we are: another sexy graphic that’s more about what your mind imagines than what your eye actually sees.
Studio manager and Airside Shop goddess Natalie went down a literary road and ended up as the glue binding the collection together.
Enjoy her marvellous musings on The Joy of Six. The full text is printed below.
Look at the number 6 all happy and proud. For the number 6 is a perfect number.
It creates points on stars, strings on guitars and the word ‘moon’ in a text.
It is so good Satan named it thrice.
It smiles knowing that its day is considered the best of the week and beams as its month welcomes summer.
It creates points on stars, strings on guitars and the word ‘moon’ in a text.
It is so good Satan named it thrice.
It smiles knowing that its day is considered the best of the week and beams as its month welcomes summer.
But in its darkest hour, the number 6 knows that despite being a perfect number not all is peachy keen.
For example nobody likes 6am and 6-packs are on a steep decline.
Its own 6-pack merely a swollen belly; looks that are neither as sleek as the number 7 nor as interesting as the number 4.
He is haunted by and well aware that if he didn’t sound like the word sex, there’d be no ‘Joy of six’.
For example nobody likes 6am and 6-packs are on a steep decline.
Its own 6-pack merely a swollen belly; looks that are neither as sleek as the number 7 nor as interesting as the number 4.
He is haunted by and well aware that if he didn’t sound like the word sex, there’d be no ‘Joy of six’.
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November 19th, 2009 at 10:57 pm (GMT)[...] On thursday last week we got to take a day off work to get our hands dirty at Print Club in Dalston. Seeing as there were six of us going to the workshop, we designed our prints according to the theme “The Joy of Six”. You can see the other five prints on the Airside blog. I’m told there may or may not be one set of prints being auctioned off on ebay… I will let you all know if I hear any more about it. [...]
November 20th, 2009 at 2:38 pm (GMT)