Series of digital pamphlets related to the Megastructure book….

The pamphlets have a written piece contextualising the subject and a map printed on tracing paper… the image is the ‘centre fold’. Dark grey cover and mid grey  for the image…

Reading from L-R

The Barbican, the Institute of Education, the Hayward Gallery, the Kingsway Tunnel Ventilation Shaft, the National Theatre…

and below, the Royal College of Physicians, Trellick Tower, the Cathedral of Christ the King, Preston Bus Station and Liverpool Sugar Silo.

Bit of an understatement …  Screen printed at Hot Bed Press, Salford and over printed with wooden type at Juniper Press, Liverpool.

Nothing is new… George Orwell’s observations now  seem prescient of our times…

Finally…

All the pages were printed at Silver Birch Press on a Vandercook press. They were sewn by hand and  trimmed at Thomas Loughlan in Liverpool.

I screen printed the front cover at Hot Bed Press and the text is Gill Drop Shadow.

The wrapper is printed with a simple red Gill ‘O’.

The Lino cuts for the book

Bexhill 1

Bexhill 2

Cantilevered stairwell from outside

Stairwell 1

West end

East end

Lights and spiral staircase

Towards the light

Situated in Bexhill, East Sussex, the De La Warr Pavilion was one of the  first Modernist structures to be built in Britain. It was designed  by Serge Chermayeff and Erich Mendelsohn and opened in 1935.