WITHIN - Howard Tangye

This post is about a beautifully produced book, titled WITHIN, showing the work of artist Howard Tangye. It was published and launched in Paris last year and the London book launch took place in London in January, to which I was invited.

 

The launch was at the Hus Gallery in Hanover Street, W1, combined with a solo exhibition of the artist's work, entitled "Casting the Line"  

Now this isn't the first time that this book has been mentioned on this blog. I profiled it last year as a project that had been launched on Kickstarter. If you follow the link, you can read the original piece, as there's no point in my duplicating the entry:

http://justinsamazingworldatfennerpaper.blogspot.co.uk/2013/06/howard-tangye-artist.html

 

The Kickstarter campaign was a roaring success and the funds were raised and therefore the project could actually be printed and the vision of the publication be realised.

  

The size of the book is 310x210mm portrait and is casebound in bookcloth. It is beautifully bound produced. There is a 170pp text which is printed on a split between Omnia White and Omnia Natural, both 150gsm. There are front and back text sections on the Omnia natural and the colour work is printed on the Omnia White. There are an additional 16 "tipped in" overlays, printed on our Tectonic Clear 150gsm, which is a translucent tracing paper. The art looks absolutely superb printed on the Omnia. which has reproduced the colours perfectly, whilst still giving the look and feel of an uncoated material.

The book is designed and published by Stinsensqueeze. Partners Louise Naunton Morgan and Stina Gromark conceived, designed and finally published the whole project, which they should be very pleased about. I think I'm right in saying, that the books have nearly all sold. They also designed the typeface for use in the book.

The book was printed and produced by Jigsaw Colour. The complexity of the book with the "tip ins" made this a challenging project, but the print and binding are both absolutely superb.

http://stsq.org/stsq/within-howard-tangye/
http://husgalleries.com/
http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/311248544/within-howard-tangye?ref=live
www.stsq.org
www.jigsawcolour.co.uk

Posted by Justin Hobson 24.02.2014

Howard Tangye - The Artist

Here's a project that I've been working on with design studio Stinsensqueeze. This is a project that has just gone live on Kickstarter.

If you're not familiar with it, Kickstarter is the largest funding platform for creative projects in the world. Every month, tens of thousands of people pledge millions of pounds to projects from all creative fields.

This project is a book titled WITHIN and features the work of artist Howard Tangye. Howard is best known for his work, as a designer, illustrator and teacher in the world of fashion. As head of womenswear at Central Saint Martins, he has taught designers such as John Galliano, Hussein Chalayan, Stella McCartney, Christopher Kane, Richard Nicoll, and Julie Verhoeven amongst others.

Until recently his work as an artist was less well known. His distinctive style depicting the clothed figure is finally gaining wider recognition and in 2012, a selection of 56 of his drawings and watercolours, were donated to the V&A


Richard Nicoll

 

Howard Tangye with Stina and Louise from Stinsesqueeze (www.stsq.org)

Stina and Louise first met Howard when studying at Central Saint Martins in 2010 and admired his work ever since. Since that first meeting they've built up a 3 year continuous collaboration, culminating in this project. Howard has previously declined working with several established publishers since he chooses to distinguish his work as a fashion teacher, from his personal work as an artist. The introduction is written by Abraham Thomas, Curator of Design at the V&A, together with an essay by Marie McLoughlin, dress historian at the University of Brighton.

 

An important factor for all the collaborators is to capture his narrative and the sensitivity of his work, whilst ensuring there is no compromise on the reproduction of the artwork and the production of the book. They spoke to me about the paper side of things and decided on a combination of our Omnia White and Natural 150gsm which would faithfully reproduce the artworks whilst still lending the tactility of the original materials used. They partnered with London based printer Jigsaw Colour www.jigsawcolour.co.uk who has extensive experience in fine art printing.  In order to get funding by Kickstarter, Paul Martin at Jigsaw Colour produced a fully working pre-production dummy (which is beautiful)

Please have a look at the following KICKSTARTER page - watch the short video - and even  better, pledge some money!
http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/311248544/within-howard-tangye?ref=live

Posted by Justin Hobson 06.06.2012