Tayburn recently collaborated with Edinburgh Printmakers’ studio and David Boni to produce a limited edition piece of literature to promote the Printmakers’ services.
Working closely with staff and artists, the process has been both educational and rewarding allowing the creation of a piece of work that lets the character of the studio speak for itself. The finished piece is a limited edition packaged set of loose-leaf prints. The package contains hand-printed section pages that cover the five main areas of print produced in the studio: relief, intaglio, lithography, screen printing and digital, as well as hand printed versions of the Edinburgh Printmakers’ logo.
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17th Aug 2010
8:13 pm
This is truly a low point for FFF putting Tayburn on. They sum up everything that is wrong with Scottish design single handedly! Poor show.
Peter
17th Aug 2010
8:17 pm
Next you will be putting O Street up!
Jack
17th Aug 2010
9:07 pm
Booo! Why the hate, Peter? Or at least qualify the “They sum up everything that is wrong with Scottish design” statement.
Davey
17th Aug 2010
10:24 pm
I agree with Peter, did no one see what they ‘won’ with at this years Scottish design awards r The Drum Awards? I cant remember which. (Both a being an embarrassent to scottish design, but thats another subject)
Playing card / business cards!!!!! Best Scottish design of the year we were all told!!!
Jack
18th Aug 2010
10:15 am
Didn’t see that, Davey. I’ll need to check that out.
Although, in fairness, if work that wins isn’t up to scratch isn’t that soley the responsibility of the awards organisation/judges? I know there are at least a couple of Scotland’s better agencies that no longer participate in the awards you mentioned.
LukeTonge
18th Aug 2010
2:33 pm
Awards are for losers!
ChrisJ
18th Aug 2010
4:03 pm
Hi Peter and Davey, why no links to your work?
Peter
18th Aug 2010
6:54 pm
Peter Perfect 1 — Elmwood Disease 0.
Peter
18th Aug 2010
6:55 pm
And that’s a full time result
Jack
18th Aug 2010
11:14 pm
“Peter Perfect” what are you on about?
Bully
19th Aug 2010
8:44 pm
Yet another celebration of mediocrity and yet more evidence of a lack of commitment to anything remotely ‘interesting’ this side of the border.
This certainly won’t be making any of our fellow practitioners in London or Holland or Basel quake in their (desert) boots now will it?
Before you ask, I don’t need a design crit from those who uphold this ‘work’ so I won’t be showing you mine… it’s much more fun being a bully.
Wake up Scotland.
Jack
20th Aug 2010
11:42 am
@ Bully, your right, there is a lot of work that probably isn’t up to scratch coming out of Scotland, however the same could be said of London.
I don’t think it’s fair to say there’s nothing remotely interesting happening this side of the border, what about Marque for example?
Rab
20th Aug 2010
12:08 pm
Like the 2014 identity?
http://news.stv.tv/scotland/west-central/162614-glasgow-2014-commonwealth-games-logo-row/
Good times all round eh?
Stevo
20th Aug 2010
12:57 pm
I think Bully has a bit of a point. I’ve always thought that standards suffered up here due to an over reliance on the public sector. Bureaucracy and Scottish cynicism prob don’t help either. I’d be interested to hear more of your thoughts bully?
Bully
20th Aug 2010
3:09 pm
Couldn’t have said it better myself Rab – another embarassment – the bid logo was far superior. A complete waste of tax payers money.
Jack – you’re right – most of what comes out of London is bad but a small percentage is world class… it’s terrifying that the Scottish industry by in large has modelled itself on the former and is derrivitive of the latter.
There’s a lot to be cynical about.
Jack
20th Aug 2010
3:47 pm
Wasn’t a huge fan of the original bid logo to be honest. Fitting Charlie and tartan into one logo was a bit too ‘shortbread tin’ Scotland for my taste. While I much preferred Marques version, I see your point regarding the controversy.
What’s the answer then, Bully? Does it lie in Scotland’s design education? Or too much reliance on the public sector?
Also, you’ve said there’s currently a “lack of commitment to anything remotely ‘interesting’ in the Scotland’s industry. In your eyes, are there absolutely no noteworthy designers or agencies here?
Stevo
20th Aug 2010
4:41 pm
I think that there’s a problem with design buyers (marketing folk and the like) not having the same savvy here as they might in London. Public sector design-by- committee also plays a part with everything watered down to mediocrity. A lot of public sector clients are also insecure about being seen to be spending money on design. Hmm…
Bully
20th Aug 2010
6:56 pm
Tayburn aren\’t the point of this – there are numerous other perpetrators. To be clear I may be a bully but the last thing I need is some junior designer (or creative director) on suicide watch – this isn\’t Japan (unfortunately) crying in the paper cupboard over another wasted design opportunity won\’t fix this. Tayburn: a symptom of a much wider malaise.
Education (or lack of) does play its part, students looking at the wrong things, worshiping false idols – kidding themselves – a poor diet of Avant Garde abuse, tightly kerned Helvetica, and blog love.
Vacuous / content-less psuedo posters, ridiculous attempts at self expression. Relentless images of the \’studios\’ new duplexed stationery, ill advised humour: I don\’t care about the contents of your fridge just the work you do. All equally to blame. It\’s retardation on a grand scale.
In answer to your last point, not many. There\’s still too much overly processed / typographically dubious land fill. Bad ideas. No ideas. Fourth hand thinking – somebody else\’s idea that was borrowed in the first place (three times over).
The answer is simple: forget everything you think you know and do better work. You\’ll know when you have, you\’ll feel better.
I\’m off to stimulate my mind at that bastion of informed debate and intelligent reporting: the Drum.
David Boni
22nd Aug 2010
1:15 am
You don’t know how excited I got when I saw my name up there, but then I realized it was my Scottish arch-nemesis of the same moniker who has the .com version of my domain.
I was like, “Oh my God, I’m on FFF. What a minute I don’t remember working with these guys…”
For the record: .net is so much cooler.
/endofftopicrant
Stevo
23rd Aug 2010
12:17 pm
Bully, could you link to some work by agencies you think are producing spectacular work. Cheers.
The Real David Boni
24th Aug 2010
12:39 pm
Stevo, I’d love see Bully’s links too if that’s cool.
Dom
24th Aug 2010
3:55 pm
Having seen this piece of printwork I\’d have to disagree with the idea that Tayburn are an example of executing poor idea-less design. I honestly don\’t know how this particular brochure has caused such an uproar. Even if the Scottish Design Industry may well be resting on it\’s laurels, I can\’t comment on that particularly having not seen a great cross section of many studios work. I\’d like to see some of the spectacular examples of work and some not so spectacular work so I can make an informed judgement rather than wade in with the windmills!
When I had the copy of the brochure in my hands what I garnered from it was that it was a very considered examination of how a traditional print studio operates. The separate section headings are printed in-house at Edinburgh printmakers to display the options you can take in making your prints (such as lithography, etching etc) in their varying tactile qualities. The overall layout is well considered and the photography rightly depicts the experience and environment of printmaking. It isn\’t bound, I assume to hark to the printmaker packaging their prints for protection after completing a set of prints. Which I believe is further compounded by the film sheets inbetween pages? To prevent ink staining?Being a printmaker myself I think this brochure really captures the essence of traditional printing.
The business card idea, for a Cardiologist, based on the idea of \"Ace of Hearts\" why is this being overly criticised either? Maybe unexpected as a grand prix winner? However, is there another idea that can get to the point that the cardiologist is a reputable and excellent man of his profession? Whilst being a conversation stimulator and approachable nontheless?
I don\’t think there will be anyone on \"suicide watch\" when faced with reading feedback from a \"Bully\".
Would love to hear people\’s thoughts, any other traditional printers out there?
DC
3rd Sep 2010
9:48 pm
I don’t care what you need or want Bully, but, Suicide is not a joke. Just think a bit please before making – off – the – cuff funnies!