1. Home Page
  2. Art & Prints
  3. Prints
  4. Letterpress

The 'Get A Head & Get A Hat' Pair Of Signed Frameable Prints

The Garage Press

£50.00 Delivery included

Read description

  1. Item price £0
  2. Extras £0
  3. Personalisation £0
  4. Delivery Date £0
  5. Total £0

Just enter your email address below and we'll email you as soon as this item's available. Thanks for supporting small businesses.
  1. order_approve
    • Order placed
    • 3rd December
  2. local_shipping
    • Dispatched
    • 10th December
  3. mail
    • Standard delivery
    • 12th - 13th December

Got a question about this product?

Send a Message
  • Made in UK
  • Handmade
red and blue prints of faces
red and blue prints of faces
red and blue prints of faces
red and blue prints of faces
red and blue prints of faces
red and blue prints of faces
red and blue prints of faces
red and blue prints of faces
Description

A pair of handmade frameable A4 mash-up of steampunk images and more contemporary graphics to illustrate and subvert a famous advertising pre-war ad slogan.

Need to know

I love using the heritage craft skills of letterpress printing to bring back to life images from the past. I found these steampunk images and didn’t really know what to do with them - until I was reminded of a famous ad slogan of the British Hatterers Association at the end of World War One when hat-wearing started to decline. ‘If you want to get ahead get a hat’

So I made a small set of these original blue 'GET A HAT' prints in 2019 and sold them all immediately. This example is the only one I also attached some vintage ribbon to - not sure why but it certainly adds something extra to it.

And then I got thinking more and realised that I needed to create a companion piece that flipped the logic - and therefore ‘GET A HEAD'’ came along. Clearly this makes no sense but it made me laugh. This example here is a one-colour handprinted Artists Proof - printed on an 1880’s Cropper Treadle press in my garage in Sydenham.

This is an Open Edition and I might make more but, for now, when these are gone they are GONE!

Delivery

The delivery options for this item are listed below (if it doesn't state 'Express delivery' then that option is not available for this product). As soon as you place your order, this small business will spring into action, get it ready and send it out... (and you can feel wonderful for supporting them).

Delivery options available

Standard delivery: included
Receive it by 12th - 13th December

For more information about delivery or returning items, please take a look at our Delivery & Returns page.

More from this Co

The Garage Press

south London

My name is Simon Trewin, Founder and Chief Inkoholic. My prints, books and cards always start out with me scratching my head and thinking, “I wonder what would happen if I...." and then I am away!

Experimentation is at the heart of my practice - I love playing around with inks, vintage papers, wooden illustration blocks and historic metal type to a clanking soundtrack of my wonderful family of hand+foot operated presses. I also love classic typefaces, bold colours and an ever-present sense of how good prints can make a real instant impact. As you will see - I can rarely resist sprinkling a sense of humour in to the mix too!

Running through everything I do is my passion to help keep heritage crafts alive and to enjoy that sense of a historical connection to the printers, presses and ephemera that have come before me. I also truly believe in the benefits of slowing down, switching off and zoning into the deep focus that this process of discovery inspires in me.

In a world where everything is too fast, I enjoy nothing more than closing my studio door and diving into the rich and ever-rewarding world of letterpress printmaking.

View Shop

You may also like