To get the content for the publication, I have looked through Anthony Burrills website to find the needed information and images of work.
Biography
Graphic artist, print-maker and designer Anthony Burrill is known for his persuasive, up-beat style of communication. His work is held in the permanent collections of the Victoria and Albert Museum in London, the Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum, New York and has been exhibited in galleries around the world including The Barbican, The Walker Art Centre and The Graphic Design Museum, Breda. In 2012, he made his first foray into curating with the exhibition Made in L.A. - Work by Colby Poster Printing, at KK Outlet in London.
Words and language are an important part of Burrill’s output and he has developed a distinctive voice that is sought after not only by collectors of his posters and prints but also by clients including Wallpaper* magazine, The Economist, The British Council, London Underground and The Design Museum. Burrill is perhaps best known for his typographic, text-based compositions, including the now-famous “Work Hard and Be Nice to People”, which has become a mantra for the design community and beyond.
Burrill has a long-standing relationship with the printers Adams of Rye where he uses traditional techniques to compose and print his work. The integrity lent to the process of image-making by hand-made methods is essential to his practice across all media — from print, to screen-based, to three-dimensional applications. In 2010 he worked with Happiness Brussels to design a screen-printed poster made with oil and sand collected from the beaches of the Gulf of Mexico disaster. Proceeds from the sale of the limited edition poster “Oil & Water Do Not Mix” went to CRCL (Coalition to Restore Coastal Louisiana) and copies were acquired by the V&A and Cooper-Hewitt for their collections.
While Burrill’s work is grounded in a serious devotion to his art, he has a lightness of touch and humour that, although often copied, is unique in the field of graphic communication. He frequently embarks on innovative collaborations with friends and fellow creatives. Recent and regular colluders include product designer Michael Marriott, writer and philosopher Alain de Botton, designer Ben Kelly and creative director Erik Kessels.
Installations, events and work in three dimensions punctuate Burrill’s practice. At the renowned annual graphic art fair Pick Me Up at Somerset House in London in 2011, Burrill re-located his studio to the gallery and held workshops and daily collaborations with fellow designers, illustrators, photographers and musicians over the course of ten days. For Graphic Design Worlds at the Triennale di Milano in 2011 Burrill and Michael Marriott built and installed a red-timbered chalet structure, clad with recreations of Burrill’s work cut from multi-veneer board.
As well as his self-authored work and commissioned design, Burrill makes regular appearances at events and talks worldwide. He also runs creative workshops attended by children, students and creative professionals alike. He documents and communicates his work and points of inspiration prolifically via social media, with thousands of followers on Twitter, Instagram and Tumblr.
Burrill was born in Littleborough, Lancashire. After studying Graphic Design at Leeds Polytechnic he completed an MA in Graphic Design at the Royal College of Art, London. He now lives and works on the Isle of Oxney, Kent.
Feature
Oil & Water Do Not Mix
Screen-printed poster made with oil from the 2010 Gulf of Mexico disaster.
Proceeds from the sale of the print were donated to CRCL (Coalition to Restore Coastal Louisiana)
a non-profit organisation dedicated to restoring the Gulf of Mexico’s coastal wetlands.
The project was conceived and produced in collaboration with Happiness Brussels (2010)
Showcase
Range of images of screen-prints and exhibition works.
Recent Work & Article
North & South billboard paste - Manchester.
Anthony Burrill is the latest artist to contribute to Manchester's Print and Paste billboard project with a poster made up of individually printed giant woodblock letters.
Back in September 2012 we posted about the launch of Print and Paste, a collaborative project which took over a disused poster site in Manchester and invited artists and designers to use it as an exhibition space.
The latest piece of work at the site is North & South – a collaboration between Anthony Burrill, Liam Hopkins of 'creative services studio' Lost Heritage and Dave Sedgwick of Print and Paste. "I contacted Anthony as I have always admired his approach to work. Around the same time I was working with Liam at Lost Heritage and he suggested it could be possible to make oversized wood type blocks for the project. We started to talk and it seemed a great idea for Anthony to take on," says Sedgwick, (who is also the organiser of the BCN MCR exhibition in which designers from Barcelona collaborate with their peers from Manchester).
North & South is a reference to the way in which the project was produced (and also to Burrill who grew up in the north but now lives and works in the south). Burrill designed the letters which were then manufactured by Hopkins using his workshop's CNC router.
Each letter was printed on the Heidelberg Cylinder press at Adams of Rye in East Sussex, Burrill's regular printing partner. The prints were then pasted on to the billboard to complete the final piece, as can be seen in this film.
"As soon as Dave contacted me I was keen to be part of it," Burrill says. "The idea of using wood block type at billboard size was exciting, something I hadn't seen done before. And of course I was keen to produce a piece of public art for my home town."
The individual letter prints are now available to buy from Burrill's website while the original artwork can be seen at Lower Ormond Street just off Oxford Road in Manchester for the rest of January and February 2014.
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