TELEGRAMME
Where do you currently live?
Telegramme has been based in East london for the past 4 years. Working from OPEN studio in Dalston.
What methods and techniques do you use when you create your posters?
Our poster ideas can come from the band name, album, song title lyrics or sometimes – ‘hell that would look awesome for this band’. Often the visual starts of as a scrappy note in my pocket sketchbook, resembling little more than a few vague lines often making sense to noone but me. Then its a case of working up the elements with what ever might suit it best. I try not to stick to any-one material. Ink, paint, photocopies, pen, pencil vintage books. What ever works. All fed in to my mac and twisted in to place with photoshop and illustrator then on to the screen printing bed!
Whilst you work what are you normally listening to?
Often the band im designing for..usually cos im lucky enough to work with bands I really like and it helps me get the right feel for the band. Then its anything else that might be playing in OPEN – Diverse to say the least. … And Bruce Springsteen.
If you could design a poster for a person or band of your choice, who would it be?
#1 Bruce Springsteen. because …well BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN. #2 having the honour of working with any band we like and listen to is always a pleasure. A Job is always great when what we’re doing just fits with what the band is doing.. thats when its the most natural and fun.
Who or what is your creative influence?
My type influence is increasingly becoming informed of the vintage sign painting littered throughout east London. Aside from that I try and keep my influences broad and varied. Allowing anything and everything I see, hear, and read filter through to the posters.
