The Private Press
There is a contemporary screen printing studio in Brighton that makes high quality screen prints for illustrators, fine artists and graphic designers.
They are unusual in the fact that they make hand printed tour posters for bands and film posters (usual for independent films) alongside wedding invitations and business cards.
These are all 'hand-pulled prints'.
I think that this is really interesting and links in well with my quote and themes because it is showing that there is still a desire for hand printed images which is in oposition to digital reproduction. Although its is repeating the same image, every print will be unique and portray the printers hand. This argues that in this digital age people still find the aesthetic of hand printed posters and imagery desirable.
Record Sales
Furthermore, the guardian has released that vinyl record sales has hit a 25 year high.(highest since 1991) LP sales were up by 53% (probably greatly correlated to the many deaths of many great musicians in 2016). For example for than 3.2 million LPs were sold last year with 5 of David Bowies albums in the top 30. This was also the first year that spending on vinyl was greater than that spend on digital downloads!
“People think millennials just stream and are just digital but actually I think we are going to see increasingly over this coming year that young people still want something tangible and real and that’s where vinyl is taking on the role that the CD used to have.” quotes Vanessa Higgins
“I think what we are going to see this year is more smaller artists and independent labels start to benefit from vinyl as well because so many different types of music fans are now willing to go out and buy it.” further quotes Vanessa Higgins
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