Johnny Two Tone Club

Interview with Studio Lost & Found

Studio Lost & Found is a Perth-based creative agency that specialises in strategic brand development for the gourmet food and beverage industry.

For our next interview, Duncan sat down for a chat with founder, designer, and all-around nice chap, Daniel McKeating.

Where are you from?
Mount Hawthorn, Western Australia.

What’s your day job?
I manage Studio Lost & Found with my wife Rebecca.

Why screen printing?
Design + illustration + messy inks = awesome. It’s also an excuse to hang out with a fantastic group of talented, inspiring individuals.

Whose screen printing do you most covet?
Jason Munn – his work is incredible. Great ideas, beautifully designed, and screen printed to perfection.

Your top two PMS colours?
At the moment I’d have to say PMS 297U and PMS 804U.

Your top two songs to screen by?
1. Karma Police by Radiohead.
2. Scooby Snacks by The Fun Lovin’ Criminals.

Your top two blogs?
At the moment I’d say my favourites are FPO (For Print Only) and LovelyPackage.

Your top two typefaces?
At the moment I really dig Brandon Grotesque by Hannes Van Döhren, and Stag by Christian Schwarz.

Your top two procrastination activities?
1. Messing about with Facebook, Twitter, and Pinterest.
2. The Plants vs. Zombies game on my iPhone. It’s very addictive!

Your top two things that start with T?
1. Typefaces.
2. Tria markers.

Not including any people or pets, apropos the catchy studio moniker, tell us the most devastating thing you’ve lost and the most brilliant thing you’ve found…

Most devastating thing I’ve lost: I had the coolest Danger Mouse t-shirt when I was a kid… my Nan sent it to me from the UK. Somehow it disappeared… I was devastated!

Most brilliant thing I’ve found: I managed to infiltrate the new Perth underground railway tunnel a few years back whilst it was still under construction (I was a bit drunk). I found an official WA Rail hard hat and air horn which was pretty cool. That same evening I also infiltrated the old Boans building which was being used as an office by the construction workers at the time. I managed to get into the attic of the building and found a can of oil from the early 1900s.

Finally, show us your work.

Interview with Duncan

For the second in our interview series with JTTC club members we thought Mr Duncan Roylance might be a good choice. Duncan is without a doubt the man behind the machine, and by machine I mean a Chandler and Price letterpress machine; “Herbert” to his friends. With Duncan’s help, Herbert is entirely responsible for all of the beautiful letterpress work we’ve been seeing coming out from the folks at Mitchell and Dent. A master of all trades, Duncan has a secret life as a blues musician, a talent for tinkering with old motorbikes, and seems to be determined to invent the next generation of silk screens. Without further ado, Mr Duncan Roylance…

Where are you from?
A time long, long ago, before the tyranny of Federation, when letterpress ruled the known universe.

What’s your day job?
I talk on the phone.

Why screen printing?
Why not screen printing???

Whose screen printing do you most covet?
Banksy – it’s kind of screen printing…

Your top two PMS colours?
Black and mid-grey (it’s the new black).

Your top two songs to screen by?
Can’t print, dancing!!

Your top two blogs?
Mitchell and Dent

Your top two typefaces?
Corona Sterling Portable, IBM Selectric

Your top two procrastination activities?
Hmm, let me see…

Your top two things that start with T?
Tea; and Triumph T140V

In a death match between the Queens left and right hand: Sir James Paul McCartney and Sir Michael Philip “Mick” Jagger, who would win and why?
Mick the Lip Jagger; he’s got too much of da blues for pretty boy Pauly. Though these days it’s hard to tell ‘em apart…

Finally, show us your work

Interview with Papa Marcus

We know we’ve been a little mysterious, sending off unsigned tea towels and the like. It’s about time we properly introduced ourselves, don’t you think?

Here is the first in our series of JTTC member interviews. Please put your hands together for Johnny Two Tone Club founder and Melbourne branch president, Papa Marcus (interviewed by fellow Two Toner, Michelle).

Where are you from?
Perth, WA.

What’s your day job?
At the moment I’m trying to make a go of being a self employed Graphic Designer in Melbourne and run my company Papa Marcus Design. I’ve only just moved here so I reckon I’ll be washing car windows at the traffic lights before you know it. They still use a squeegee you know.

Why screen printing?
I love the immediacy of the thing. Dragging a wad of neon ink accross a sheet of paper and seeing how that lifts off the page just gives me a real kick. There’s something really exciting to me in reviewing each draw of the squeegee as it happens. It sure beats offering your printer a bowl of rice and a high resolution pdf, crossing your fingers and hoping for the best. I also really enjoy working with a limited colour palette and seeing what you can do with that.

Whose screen printing do you most covet?
Jay Ryan, Morning Breath, Print Liberation, Andrio Abero, Ghost Town Design, Delicious Design League, do I have to choose only one?

Your top two PMS colours?
Pantone 310c, Pantone 108c

Your top two songs to screen by?
“Magical Colours” by Jon Spencer Blues Explosion and “Please Don’t Touch” by Motörhead

Your top two blogs?
For Print Only (underconsideration.com/fpo) and Batblog (tomztoyz.blogspot.com)

Your top two typefaces?
I really love Eames at the moment and I’ve been a big fan of whatever the typeface is that the Print Liberation guys use on literally everything they do. I think it’s handmade because all the weights are really odd and irregular. I love it!

Your top two procrastination activities?
l spend ages trying to level up my dork abilities by reading forums on computer issues I’m having in order to actually avoid more pressing things. I also like to drink a highly unmanly amount of tea.

Your top two things that start with T?
TED talks, The Walking Dead (super super awesome comic book)

What’s your earliest memory of making art?
I think it was a ticket I “designed” when I was in Primary School. There was a competition to design a poster for the school play ‘The Flying Pieman’, if I remember correctly. This other guy (his mum actually) won it and got his drawing on the poster but mine was runner up so it became the ticket art. I can’t imagine the shape of the ticket that it would work for both. My mum told me that not everyone would see the poster, but everyone coming to the show would have to see my ticket. Good words Mum.

Finally, show us your work…