FORT HOUSTON

Fort Houston describe themselves as being "like a gym but for people who build stuff with their hands" They are a true makerspace and membership to their facilities gives you access to a full scale wood shop, metal shop, photo studio, screen print station, office space, co-working space as well as the onsite cafe, gallery and shop. Josh, one of the owners, showed me round and explained how the space has grown over the years and is used by different creatives, often to start up a business, very inspiring to find such a well equipped, accessible space!

Personal Project

I was very lucky during my time as a Hatch Show Print intern to be able to work on a personal project. Surrounded by so much beautiful wood type it was very difficult to decide what to do! I ended up picking a font with both lower and uppercase so I could experiment with colour overlays.

MATTHEW WEST / JEREMY CAMP

Another poster design and printed as part of my internship Hatch Show Print. Was great to use some big type on this one and play about with ink transparencies.

SWEETHEART OF THE RODEO

My second solo project as part of my internship at Hatch Show Print. I am so happy I got assigned this job as I got to use some of the type and design elements from the collection I had been admiring for a while!

VANDERBILT DEPARTMENT OF ART

I was very lucky that when I was in Nashville, Carlos Hernandez and Bill Fick were passing through town as part of the Speedball Roadshow. Hosted at Vanderbilt University's Department of Art, I got to see Carlos and Bill talk about their work then take part in a brilliant printmaking workshop which is best described by Carlos as a 'Print Orgy' where we combined screen-printing, mono printing and lino printing. A truly inspirational couple of days - was so great to meet and chat with Carlos and Bill and thanks to Mark from Vanderbilt for being so welcoming! Hopefully see y'all in the UK soon!

FRIENDLY ARCTIC

Friendly Arctic is a print and design shop based in East Nashville. They are (as their name suggests!) super friendly, not only to visitors from the UK, like myself but in their eco-friendly business philosophy and community mindedness. Nowadays they print all kinds of things for clients across the US but they started out 10 years ago, in true DIY fashion screen printing t-shirts for local bands out of their garage. I had a great time looking round the space, shooting the breeze with Brendan and checking out their awesome gig posters - head over to their online store to grab yourself one or something from their merch range.

HERE COME THE MUMMIES

I am so excited to be able to finally show you my first 'solo' design project as part of my internship at Hatch Show Print. It was for a fundraising gig held at the Ryman featuring a band called Here Come The Mummies (who actually dress up as Egyptian Mummies!) This one was such a blast to design and print (well maybe apart from the 2 hour make ready!)

NAKED MAGICIANS

As you can probably guess I had great fun working on this design with fellow interns, Laurel Tyree, Violet Stubbs and Will Wood. It was the first design assigned to us as part of our internship at Hatch Show Print and we worked on it and printed it as a group - team work makes the dream work!