Speed スピード - 'in between blues'

Speed スピード - 'in between blues'

Japanese katakana カタカナ type painted in ‘in between blues’ and chocolate brown colour tones that depict light at various stages of the day.

The design is reminiscent of Japanese 'Taisho Era' graphic design and is painted, textured and aged in reference to Japanese Haikyo 廃墟 culture and traditionalist sign writing, weathered signs and ghost signs.

The artist’s appreciation and love of graphic design and package design from the 1920’s right through to the 1970’s (pre computer age) can be seen as an influence in this work.

Textured and layered paint application.
Finished in hard wearing gloss clear.

Signed on the reverse side.
Comes wired, and ready to hang.

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Originally schooled in Sign writing and later Scenic Art, in 2010 I began exploring and developing techniques in the treatments of typography by means of ( for example ) painting , sanding, masking and the overlaying of type and letter shapes. 

The original concept of my work was inspired by various weathered sign written signs I had seen mostly high up on the sides of buildings in Melbourne's CBD and also on walls of it's surrounding inner suburbs.

It was around this time that I started developing more of an interest in vintage graphic design, package design and vintage typography, and whilst my explorations into letter treatment for the most part remained the same, the focus of my work broadened as I began to consider layout and design, spacial awareness and colour (and it's tones )

By implementing these new concepts and coupling them with my ongoing explorations into typography, I was able to lay the foundations of the style of work that would follow and which continues to be a feature of my work today.