Lewes Herriot beermat designs at Saturday’s Pointe Blank and FAKE magazine 004 launch event at Six Eight Kafé.
Bottom photo: Katy Smith.
Coffee cup beermat designs from the Pointe Blank / FAKE magazine 004 launch event at Six Eight Kafé, 10 March 2012.
Beermat drawings by cocoboy from the Pointe Blank / FAKE magazine 004 launch event at Six Eight Kafé. Photo by Katy Smith.
Six Eight Kafé are kindly exhibiting the awesome Hobson’s Choice Pointe Blank collection in three sets of nine prints, with each set up for a fortnight, until 15 April 2012.
Saturday saw us descend on the premises for a public launch event, alongside FAKE magazine, who were marking the release of their gorgeous fourth issue.
In a nod to the boozy themes of Hobson’s Choice, we invited patrons to turn a stack of blank beermats into pint-sized canvasses, while contributors to Pointe Blank and FAKE draw exclusive designs on boards outside.
Big thanks to the venue for having us, and to everybody who came down and made it such a fantastic afternoon! Check out the fab photos by Katy Smith, and of course everybody’s beermat designs elsewhere on the blog!
Two-time Pointe Blank contributor Jimmy Rogers was kind enough to come down to Saturday afternoon’s live launch event to create an exclusive new image outside the venue!
Top three photos by Katy Smith, final shot by Jimmy himself.
Hobson’s Choice beermat in watercolours, tea and coffee, following the Pointe Blank and FAKE magazine 004 launch event at Six Eight Kafé on Saturday.
Click to find out about the awesomeness of the respective people. And while you’re at it, take a look at this bit of related brilliance from InkyGoodness - still plenty of time to get involved yourself.
MEANWHILE, BACK OUTSIDE: Two-time Pointe Blank contributor, Nathan Monk, of SMILE, kindly stepped up to render the FAKEmagazine wordmark in pen and ink on one of the boards outside the Kafé.
You can see the work in progress above (photo Katy Smith) and click here to see the final results on Nathan’s blog, which also features a brilliant write-up of his creative response to the Pointe Blank Hobson’s Choice brief.
As well as all of the pint-sized beermat designing going on inside, illustrator, screen printer and FAKE magazine contributor, Pippa Stewart, also kindly took up the challenge of creating an ace new drink-themed piece on one of the boards sitting outside the front of the Kafé (Thankfully the weather played nice).
Here’s Pippa’s final piece, and you can see more pictures here on her own blog, along with lots of her other artwork. Thank you Pippa!
photo: Katy Smith
Beermat design by @HesterChester.
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‘I was an art student once, now look at me’
(no, really, I actually was. I dropped out because I was crap. can you tell? :) )
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