recent things with me in them

What They Did Next kind of thing 

by Graphic Communications dept. at Uni. Plymouth

DIY, a zine compiled by Ellis Jones 

for Connected Communities Festival '14

Our writing was translated into Welsh!

shrieking violet issue 22

The Shrieking violet is a great free zine, edited and curated by Manchester-based writer Natalie Bradbury. I'm really lucky to have some of my dumb writing in this issue, among some great articles about art, architecture, philosophy, culture... Pretty much everything. I recommend this and all the previous issues, which are free to read online.

Natalie also has an essay on being vegan up on the food-chain blog, which will be included in the third and final food-chain zine, to be completed this year.

kino zino

I really am making work, and in a visual medium see? It's not just gigs. Though having said that I will be playing guitar as part of Palomica this Thursday. It's a house show in London I think. i will try and get more details...

encyclopedia_hrjireland.pdf

The full Encyclopedia document is now available to download for free

It's formatted to fit nicely onto your e-reader or tablet device, if that's how you choose to live your life, otherwise it can be viewed on anything that reads .PDF format files.

So all the content is available for free. However, I've decided to offer a bespoke binding service, covering the cost of materials and labour for a hand bound artefact.

booklet library, tokyo

image from here

I got an email from a nice lady named Yoko, asking me to contribute some of my work to BOOKLET LIBRARY in Toyko. I posted them a few weeks ago and they just arrived and you can view them here.

encyclopedia: a kind of press release

So it's finished. I'm pretty happy with it. It's more than a year's work.

I printed the inners at Hanway Print and silk-screen printed and bound the rest at home. The foil blocking on the cover was done at the Wyvern Bindery. I was looking into doing it myself but in the end the cost to set up would have been the same and I definitely wouldn't have done such a good job. I was also keen to give Wyvern Bindery some custom after all the friendly help I've had there in the past. They charge a setting fee of £25 for the first line of text and £5 for each additional line. Then it's about £5 per unit for every copy made after that. I think this is justifiable for an artist book.

Right now, I'm still figuring out how to present it. Doing readings is kind of limiting as this book kind of needs to be handled and leafed through to work as an artwork. My current plan is to hold some kind of event at Cafe Kino some time later this year.

I'm also thinking about offering a bespoke binding service for those who want their own personal copies. This makes more sense than mass producing and I don't want to charge for the content. Just the binding.

Speaking of which, I'm providing .PDF copies of this document free of charge to those who would like to read it (there will be some kind of 'this belongs to hrjireland' watermark on the pages) so if you'd like a copy, contact me somehow...

encyclopedia: foil blocked

Just a peek for now. And yes, in case you've been wondering, the spelling is deliberate.

encyclopedia: hard back(ed)

All I have to do now is print up the super fancy cover. Q: Will there be gold foil blocking? And a letter-pressed book belt? A: Yes.

encyclopedia: stitched

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copper spires a5

Finally finished the A5 version of my copper spires sketchbooks and uploaded them to my folksy and etsy shops.

the print was inkier this time, but I think the addition of the nice turquoise book cloth keeps everything together.

So that's the second 'to-do' project of the year finished. I'm keen to get through all of these upcoming projects by the end of May, as that is when this year really speeds up...

corners: a zine about maths and art

Finally finished the first personal project of the year. It's a zine and print package about a pretend statistical analysis I did to kill some time in 2010. It's taken me a couple of years to get round to collecting all the raw material I collected into this 32 page zine. I limited the run to 20 and I tried to make it as nice as possible. I'm pleased with it. In some ways it's the most complex personal project I've made in the real world...

Oh year, and you can buy it from my folksy shop, and maybe some real shops in the coming months.

red trick

So, about two years ago, I made a cover for Red Trick, the debut novel by Giacomo Lee. It was published as an ebook a few months ago and last week it was finally published in paperback. Giacomo is giving his profits to the Samaritans charity, which is pretty nice of him.

copper spires sketch books

So, here is the first attempt. Two A6 hand bound sketchbooks with hard lino-printed covers. They look ok, though the trauma of getting the covers on means I can't really look at them right now. will need to leave them to dry to see if they are sturdy enough.

kino residency: production line

The last Cafe Kino event was a zine making workshop. It was lots of fun and loads of great zines were made. Thanks to the generosity of Steve Brett, you can see all the photos from that day on my flickr page. As well as Steve, massive thanks is also owed to Bob and Charlotte who helped make the day so great. 

secret trail

I made this silly little story to go along with the music and pictures night on the 28th of April and the other day I got the coach into Bristol and left them in special places around the city.

giacomo on the kindle

Look! My friend Giacomo Lee wrote a novel called Red Trick and asked me to design the cover and it has just been published for e-reader. Way to go Giac!

records

This will be a page of a book of prints that I'm hoping to get done in time to submit to a competition run by the Bookartbook Shop.

e17 art trail

Last night, I went to Black Horse Road Studios for the preview of their stop on the E17 Art Trail. There were some great performances and sculptures, including sculptures by Turnhurst.

They had also produced the above publication to sell alongside their show. The theme of the publication was the relationship artists and craftspeople have with their working and living environments. I got to contribute the above spread, which I was happy to do because the publication over all looks great.

libros mutantes

photos from here

On Thursday the 27th of April, Libros Mutantes held a self-publishing fair at La Casa Encendida in Madrid in Spain, and my mini-story 5 years set adrift was exhibited (somewhere) in it.

I love the look of the space and it was nice of them to ask me to take part.

3 more short stories

Have been making covers for three new short stories that will be for sale at the designers/makers markets in May.