The End of the World: New Print For Keep Calm

THE END OF THE WORLD (REALLY BUILT TO LAST) is Paris-based artist Matthew Rose's latest surreal fantasy about the fragility of world we live in and the end of the world we've built. 

 

Based on an original collage from 2008, THE END OF THE WORLD, reports from the frontiers of the real and dream worlds, where foods and animals, naughty little boys and errant little girls enter into the visual field and run, jump, hang and float in and around an assortment of human narratives that are veering dangerously out of control. Like in life.

This work, and others in the series, will appear in Masters of Collage (Lark Publishing, USA) in May 2010 along with 40 other contemporary artists.

This full color print measures 25 x 25 cm, and also has a border for framing.  Signed and numbered in an edition of 85, the print, produced by Lalande Digital Art Press Paris costs 38 UK Pounds exclusively from Keep Calm Gallery.  Click here to go to Keep Calm Gallery to see detailed images and order.

Le One Page Book

Lalande Digital Art Press Paris a developé une idée formidable pour tous nos clients – artistes, photographes, agences de pub, boutiques et entreprises de tous genres : Un livre à une feuille. (One page book).  Utilisant une seule feuille, on imprime à A4 sur des papiers beaux, de 80 grammes à 250 grammes. Quadri couleur ou noir et blanc, la page est pliée quatre fois, puis coupé au milieu.  Repliée, la page devient un livre à huit pages! C'est beau, elegant et vraiment utile pour des milliers de fonctions. Un mini livre parfait pour un catalogue, photobook, livre d'artiste, carte de visite, cadeau, lancement d'un produit ou ligne de vêtements... en fait, tout ce que vous pouvez imaginez.  

TELECHARGER LE PDF
Alors, voici un mini-one-page-book, IT WAS A VERY BAD YEAR. Télécharger (A4 ou US lettre) le PDF ICI. [Another book, JOW, is here : JOW By Musicmaster & John Bennett (2008)]. Imprimez chez vous et les idées se lancent... Imprimez vos one-page-books avec Lalande; on comprend bien le format et on est là pour vous aider avancer vos projets. Voici un video pour mieux comprendre comment plieer le livre. Questions? Demandez-nous, c'est gratuit: ONE PAGE BOOK.

This little schematic guide, above, will help you figure it all out. The one-page-book (click here): IT WAS A VERY BAD YEAR, will allow you to see for yourself how simple and elegant and inexpensive an advertising vehicle the one-page-book is; the possibilities are endless. It is a tool that will not only win friends and influence people, but also allow you make an impact with a small budget. We can fold and cut your one-page-books or advise you on how best to use them. Talk to us about your projects (our advice is free) : Questions? Just ask, click here: ONE PAGE BOOK.

Epson 9800 - Belles Impressions Chez Nous

Affiches, les impressions digitales, éditions limitées, notre Epson 9800 est le meilleure imprimante numérique pour tous vos besoins. Nous imprimons sur des dizaines de supports différentes, y compris la toile, tyvek, papier Arches ainsi que du papier photo. Taille maximale : 1 m x 10 m. On peut stocker vos fichiers pour les éditions sur demande.

The 9800 is Epson's latest 44-inch wide format printer using UltraChrome K3™ Inks with a new eight color pigment set (C, Lc, M, Lm, Y, Lk, LLk + PK or MK). This includes a new three-level black technology with inter-changeable photo and mat blacks providing archival colour prints for up to 108 years and B&W for over 200 years. Epson’s variable-sized droplet and Micro Piezo drop-on-demand ink jet system can produce up to three different sizes per print line with a resolution of 2880 x 1440 dpi.

Ça vous interesse? Pour un devis/estimate: Contactez nous: LALANDE PRINTS.

Après Le Quinze Août

Paris Tourism

Pour les Parisiens qui ont profité du Velib, et qui ont trouvé une de nos quatre images dans leur pannier, voilà, on a fait contact. Comme vous voyez, on vous offre des cartes de visite avec vos cartes postales. Envoyez-nous vos photos de velos à Paris, en France ou n'importe où dans le monde entier. On va les mettre sur le site, et si on les imprime pour une promotion, on va vous imprimer des cartes postales pour vous remercier.

Did you find these postcards in the basket of your velo? We'd like to continue with more shots like these. So if you're any kind of photographer, or just have a camera, send us your photos of bicycles in Paris, France or anywhere in the world. Lalande will put them on the website and if we use them in other promotions, we will print up post cards for you for your contribution and to say thanks. These images are copyright-free retro-Americana photos from the 1940s. Click on them to enlarge and see how great they are.

If you'd like to discuss a project of yours, click here to Contact Lalande. Bonne route!

VELIB PARIS

Paris is now a biker's paradise with thousands of bicycles – velos – ready to ride all over town. Ever the opportunist, we created a special "Velib" promotion for new clients, putting one or two of the TIPOGRAFIA cards in the baskets of the cool new bikes. The rider takes one, hikes his or her way across town, and leaves the second card in the basket for someone else. Talk about an "idea virus," this allows us to diffuse our material in a friendly manner to our demographic. We're printing up new images that will be a bit retro like this one, above. If you do find one of our cards, bring one home (and leave the second card in the pannier for the next rider, please); then check in here on the blog, and let us know where in Paris you found it. Christine, technical princess and green citizen at Lalande, reminded me to tell people: Ne jetez pas sur la voie publique, s'il vous plaît.

I wrote about the Velib Phenomeon for The Paris Blog. Here's a quick snippet: "Putting Parisians on two wheels 24 hours a day has ushered in a new local aesthetic. With the cool weather, sunny days and breezy nights taking the velo for a 30-minute trot about town is quite agreeable. The little "pannier" up front is framing an emerging look: Toting about colorful fruits and vegetables, could very well produce a spread in Vogue. Part-retro fashion, part-health kick, big-time Amelie Poulain and clear-sky friendly, it's evident Parisians want to look like they're busy doing wonderful things and carrying legumes about on the velo is a quick fix to that end."

We're looking for great photos of bicycles, from all corners of the globe, so send one of yours to us and maybe we can use it in another Velib pannier promotion, and reward you at the same with some post cards, digital prints, or cartes de visites. Become a big wheel; we'll help you get there.

Paris est maintenant le paradis des cyclistes avec des milliers de bicyclettes prêt à aller partout la ville. Jamais opportuniste, nous avons créé une promotion "Velib" spéciale pour de nouveaux clients, mettant une ou deux des cartes TIPOGRAFIA ou petits cyclistes dans les paniers des nouveaux vélos frais. Velib Paris.

TIPOGRAFIA

Robert Ruscoe, Lalande's master printer, is an accomplished photographer as well as a digital wizard. While in Venice he produced a gorgeous portfolio of Venetian doorways, buildings and architectural details. His photograph, TIPOGRAFIA, is close to Robert's heart, being a type maniac and the kind of person who lusts after elegant decay, a specialty of Venice and its façades. Immediately, I wanted to use it as a promotional post card, and also to offer it as a signed, limited edition print. Robert is planning on producing it in an enormous semi-transparent adhesive print for the façade of our studio on Rue Labrouste in the 15th arrondisement.

LIMITED EDITION PRINT OFFER
We've decided to offer TIPOGRAFIA a limited and signed edition of 21. The full-color print measures 65 x 55 cm, and is produced on the Epson 9800, using 100 per cent cotton, acid-free Arches paper, 240 gram weight. The price is modest: Only 75 euros. Contact me to reserve your signed, limited edition print and arrange delivery in France – or anywhere in the world. It's a great work of art for yourself, or a gift for someone who loves Venice and its fantastic façades.

ARE YOU A NEW CLIENT?
For new clients, we're offering a time-limited promotion: Through the end of July, if you order 500 Full color postcards (10 x 15 cm) with black text on the back, we'll print up 100 cartes de visites (business cards) for you with whatever image you like. The postcards are 99 euros HT. For your business card, you can use a picture of yourself as a kid and your e mail, your company logo, or anything else you like. Make one for a friend as a gift. We'll need images sized to a standard business card – 9 x 5 cm. Send us a good color image, saved as a .jpg or better, a PDF, set to CMYK.

Actually, you can make other things with us – books, brochures, posters, catalogs, large prints – and we'll produce the business cards free for you as well. This offer extends until the end of July.

Like Robert's TIPOGRAFIA, if you take a great picture, you can produced limited edition prints, or post cards, or business cards, make them known, put them in the world, and become famous.

Christian Xatrec's Signs

Frenchman Christian Xatrec is the Fluxus-inspired artist who spun the EXIT sign around to read EXIST. He loves signs and is happiest when he makes his own. We asked Christian, who is still making his art as well as working as vice president of the Emily Harvey Foundation in Venice and New York, if he would permit us to produce an inkjet print with one of his pieces, both as a way to create a portfolio of fine art digital prints for Lalande, and to see how he would react to the piece produced large, in color on 300 gram Arches paper. The above print from 2004 measures almost a meter square. Entitled "Danger: dangers," Xatrec's pyramid of caution in red and black with splashes of green and yellow serves as a maddening lexicon of where to go and how to get there. A great piece, we think, pointing us, at least, in the right direction.

Robert Ruscoe: Lalande Wizard

Robert Ruscoe, my friend and partner at Lalande, is an Englishman who crossed the Channel to France some 25 years ago "to work on his French, make art, make a fortune and drink better wine."

He's done all of those and at the same time has become a master digital printer, ad proofer, photo retoucher and has made more than 1000 highly detailed rubber stamps. We first exhibited together in Paris Mail Art in 2003, a show curated by Christian Balmier, and have been friends ever since and partners soon thereafter.

There's very little Robert doesn't know how to do with a computer or a computer file, and more importantly, turning those computer files which confound all of us, into valuable printed material. I've never seen anyone work a Quark layout as fast as he does. He's an expert on the Xerox, the Konica Business Hub and the two Epson inkjet printers. And Robert is going nuts these days making books on a new machine he picked up that binds and glues (hard or soft cover) books of all sizes, shapes and flavors. He produced a wedding book (for himself) and just published a dozen copies of a 48-page book about his Spring trip to Venice. I'm still waiting for my copy.

This portrait (above) of Robert at the studio in the 15th is by Lalande client, the Paris-based Dutch photographer, Jeremy Stigter.