The Ten Best Typographic Prints
If you don’t enjoy pondering the hidden meaning in artworks, then the perfect dressing for your walls could be a typographic print or poster — making words themselves an art form. “Keep Calm And Carry On”, a 1939 poster design by an anonymous civil servant, has struck a chord in this recession era, triggering a new popularity for art that literally makes a statement. Slogans, quotes, lyrics, epigrams and proverbs, The Ten Best sorts the stylish from the sentimental:
- Rise and Shine, £18, Keep Calm Gallery: Lovely, sunny screen print (500mm x 400mm) designed to inspire positivity. Printed using warm yellow ink on 100% recycled off-white paper.
- Always Do Sober, £50, Hand & Eye Letterpress: Poster (760mm x 530mm) bearing quote attributed to Mark Twain — “Always do sober what you said you’d do drunk. This will teach you to keep your mouth shut.”
- Don’t Sweat The Small Stuff, £20, Not on the High Street: Screen print (594mm x 420mm) printed in black ink on 270gsm mist paper by Keep Calm Gallery.
- This Place is Good, £45, Design Museum: Designed exclusively by Anthony Burrill for the Design Museum Shop, this limited edition of 200 rainbow prints is signed and numbered by the artist.
- Do all you can, £70, John Lewis: Print (700mm x 500mm) featuring a motivational message written in a mixture of white fonts set against a lime green background.
- Wonky, from £25.99, Allposters: Giclee print (available in a variety of sizes) in vivid, pure colour, produced on a heavy 310 gsm, acid-free and watercolour textured paper.
- Necessity, £120, Liberty: Framed two-colour screen print (400mm x 500mm) on off-white sugar paper 100gsm. From an edition of 50, signed and numbered by artist James Brown.
- Love is all you need, £50, Artrepublic: Blue Giclee print (420mm x 270mm), with a folky/Carnaby Pop appeal. Limited edition of 10, signed by artist Sean Sims.
- Dreams, £125, Artrepublic: Silk screen print (762mm x 610mm), limited edition of 100, by artist Seb Lester who is best known as a type designer with a passion for letterforms.
- Colours, £35, Urban Outfitters: Understated framed text print (410mm x 410mm), featuring a single sentence in simple black font, by California based designer Forrest Lucero.
