6th May 2011
Last month got off to a fantastic start with news of a nomination for Handcooked/Douglas Walker in the category of ‘Poster Artist of the Year’ in the inaugral Scottish New Music Awards 2011 – an exciting new event being held later this year at the Classic Grand in Glasgow, created to recognise individuals’ contributions towards the vitality of the Scottish music industry.
More info/links for all the music industry nominees (inc. those in the poster category) can be found here, and the award winners will be decided upon through online voting – which is now open, and closes 1st August.
An (appreciated) vote for Handcooked can be made here, please note: the nomination is under Douglas Walker – and not Handcooked.
There are 27 nomination categories, and a vote in every category IS required – although there’s no log-in procedure for voting and it WILL only take a couple of minutes to complete. Do take your time if you can though, as there’s quite a few worthwhile nominees in each category worth your support/vote/more recognition within the industry – and these new awards sound like a great way to help achieve that.
Thank you!
Find out more about the Scottish New Music Awards.
19th February 2011
A busy year so far printing/designing with Handcooked and keeping up with Baseline’s design work has meant the Handcooked site’s been running behind with keeping up to date, but our Bright Eyes print for the band’s Glasgow show (shown above) has now been added to our shop along with the Roddy Woomble tour print.
Site updates will follow on soon with details of our commemorative prints for Roddy Hart’s “Forever Young” Bob Dylan Tribute Night at Glasgow’s Royal Concert Hall, along with some pix of our first foray into screen-printing limited edition 12″ single sleeve covers – which is an area we’d love to be working in – especially after seeing ‘proper’ 12″ x 12″ music artwork being made again…
19th February 2011
Just completed are the prints for Roddy Woomble’s current tour – which will be available through our shop after the Liverpool date on Feb 6th.
The design’s also been adapted for t-shirts and a tote bag which are on-sale at the gigs – along with a very small quantity of single colour prints of the above on either red or light blue board.
30th January 2011
Our Idlewild tour prints for the band’s 100 Broken Windows 10th Anniversary Tour have now been made available. The first edition of prints completely sold out on tour, so a 2nd edition was requested by the band to be printed up to cover all the dates.
(The second edition isn’t printed on the 270gsm GF Smith Colourplan paper stock we usually use – just to differentiate editions – and also due to timescales/bad weather interfering with deliveries of paper/timescales.)
17th December 2010
Completed in the middle of heavy snow falls and sub zero temperatures were our latest prints for Idlewild – who are touring to support the re-release of their 100 Broken Windows album on it’s tenth anniversary. Both the design and the final print itself are possibly Handcooked best efforts yet – despite the weather’s best efforts to make this as difficult as possible to produce!
The print is 11.5 inches x 23.5 inches, and is printed 4 colours, with a fifth colour achieved through overprinting inks.
Photo galleries showing the step by step process involved are posted on Facebook.
The print’s sold really well on tour, so to cover all the tour dates at the end of December there’ll be a 2nd Edition of these printed up for those and to cover any on-line sales.
These prints will be available on-line early in the New Year.
13th October 2010
Thanks to everyone who made our first visit to Flatstock Europe such a great experience. Now that all our poster stock is now in the one place with prints being out on tour, at Flatstock or at galleries, our shop will be updated very soon – and there’s a few prints going to be available that haven’t been in stock for ages. So check back very soon for updates…
16th September 2010
Handcooked will be participating in this year’s FLATSTOCK EUROPE 5 (FLATSTOCK 28) poster show – part of the 3 day Reeperbahn Music Festival held in Hamburg, Germany from Sept 23rd – 25th.
Flatstock Europe is the biggest poster show held outside of the USA, and is presented by the American Poster Institute (API). While FLATSTOCK is a series of exhibitions mainly held across the US at various music events (SXSW, Bumbershoot, etc), Flatstock Europe features a wide range of work from gig poster artists from across the USA, UK, Canada, Germany and the rest of Europe.
The API is a non-profit corporation dedicated to serving poster artists and promoting this art form to a wider audience, and since 2002 FLATSTOCK has presented the general public with an ongoing series of opportunities to see gig poster art in person and also provides an opportunity to meet the artists behind it all.
Each participant is invited to produce their own Flatstock poster for selling at the show (outwith the official poster shown above). For more info, take a look at, The Flatstock Blog, The American Poster Institute and gigposters.com. The full list of participants at this year’s event can be seen at the Reeperbahn Festival arts page.
22nd August 2010
The last couple of months have been taken up with getting a new workshop built in the garden at home, then dismantling, moving all the print equipment up out of a cramped garage, re-assembling and somehow fitting it all into a custom built workspace. With the move in almost complete, site-wide updates will be appearing here very soon.
8th March 2010
This year, we’ve produced two separate screen-prints for the Scottish Arts Council’s Showcasing Scotland gigs at SXSW. The Arts Council funds and supports some of the best Scottish acts to travel across to the States and play at two showcase gigs at the prestigious music festival in Austin, TEXAS – with one during the day and the other an evening gig.
Design-wise we went for a cross-Atlantic travel/Scottish theme with colourways to reflect the day and night time gigs. Each print has a colour blend for the run with the sky and band-names, and we experimented with double hit colours for both the violet and the black areas. And printing duties on the Latitude print were ably assisted by Stuart Thomas from the Scottish Arts Council.
4th December 2009
We’ve just recently completed an edition of prints for the Frightened Rabbit Scottish tour dates, which will be on-sale at each of the gigs (except Fort William… not enough time to get them ready for that one, sorry). We’re really pleased with this screen-print – which along with the Idlewild’s “Readers & Writers” poster, represents our best printed work done to date. They are rather lovely we must admit.
The design work on this is by FR’s Scott Hutchison, along with Dave Thomas at FatCat Records.
