To Oceans of Joy

To Oceans Of Joy Harmen Liemburg 2005 To Oceans of Joy

Title To Oceans of Joy
Year 2005
Size H 841 x W 1189 mm
Technique 2 colour screenprint on 120 grams/m2 Natronkraft paper
Edition 25 signed and numbered prints out of 75 prints total

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Ed Fella (on the right) in his little office at CalArts, here together with Henri Lucas).

Since I first met Ed in 2003, we’ve stayed in touch. We both share a lot of interests, but most importantly, a love for the American vernacular. Whenever I’m visiting, there’s just too many things to see and talk about.

oceans 1 To Oceans of Joyoceans 2 To Oceans of Joy

Lewis Blackwell, Lorraine Wild
Ed Fella: Letters on America. Photographs and Lettering
Princeton Architectural Press, 2000
ISBN 1 56898 217 8

After revisting him once or twice, we were asked to do a collaboration for the new old offset press at the  CalArts graphic design dept..

sketch 1 To Oceans of Joysketch 2 To Oceans of Joy
From Ed Fella’s many sketchbooks

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Offset printed ‘after the event’ flyers he sends out to collegues and graphic friends

They never managed to get the damn thing going, so I decided to make a poster myself, mixing some of Ed’s graphic elements from Letters on America with my own travel photography.

oceans 7 To Oceans of Joyoceans 9 To Oceans of Joy

Ed and me both like to drive through the countryside and stop often to check out akward little places. The design of this poster is thus a landscape seen from a car: looking at the road ahead driving into the Californian hills while looking back in the mirror.

oceans detail To Oceans of Joy

A true Collaboration-at-a-Distance!
Detail at 100%

June 1st, 2005
, Posted in Posters