60 Million Postcards

Kate Copeland

A couple of years ago I got a message from AIB student Kate Copeland asking if she could do some poster design work for Sixty Million Postcards. I had a quick glance and, to be totally honest, it slipped my mind to contact her back. A few weeks went by and I realised I needed posters for the Operator Please and Your Twenties gigs in the pub so I gave Kate a shout. What she came back with knocked me off my chair. The illustrations were some of the best I had ever seen, full of character and a hint of ‘darkness’ I always find so appealing, plus the poster designs were spot on. Two years on and Kate is now the resident designer and creative mind behind the Kill Em All club night which I run with the Filthy Dukes, meaning she regularly designs for fabric and other clubs all over the world. Have a look at the website she made for us here. She has also recently done work for Pure Groove (designing record sleeves for their label), Topman CTRL, Warchild, Stopmakingme, plus a lot more work for Postcards of course ... and she is still doing her degree. This young lady is going to go onto massive things. Check out her blog here.

Animal Farm Exhibition & Live Bands

WEDS 10TH FEBRUARY
ANIMAL FARM
12.00-00.00
Free Entry
CHALKY GRAVELL - live
JOUIS - live
Press Play ( FAT POPPADADDYS)
Animal Farm is a silent auction / exhibition of animal themed limited edition screen prints and one off illustrations, also featuring live music and djs from 8pm plus market stalls throughout the day. This time it kicks off with some fresh live sounds from Chalky Gravel and Jouis.

Stuff We Like : The XX + Saam Farahmand

Every now and again we’ll post something that isn’t strictly to do with Sixty Million Postcards, but that we just liked and decided to share with you. Here’s an image from artist Saam Farahmand’s installation interpretation of The XX album. We love the album and you can read a review of this exhibition on the link below. Shaam says of the project “Music videos are a 2D visual interpretation of a song… We are interested in creating spaces that exist as a 3D physical interpretation of a song or an album, and that is what we have created for the album xx”.

Remember to come and catch XX member / remixer and forward thinking DJ in his own right at Postcards on March 13th. It’ll be a good one.

http://www.creativereview.co.uk/cr-blog/2010/january/xx-a-sculpture-of-an-album

Postcards Art

Those of you with an eye for aesthetics will have noticed the sexiness of our recent flyer art. This is down to illustrative handy work of one Jo Sinclair. You can see his latest work on the cover of our February flyer downloadable on from this page. We’ll be uploading all our artwork into the art section of this blog so you can print it off and pass it off as your own work as you see fit, just kidding. In the meantime Jo has just finished working on a huge new mural down the side of Sixty Million Postcards so go and check it out.

Anyone interested in contributing will illustration / photography or art should email us on sixtympc@mac.com