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Not My Type exhibition
Illustration, Type / Typography
Posted by Gavin Lucas, 12 May 2010, 10:59 Permalink Comments (16)

35 different Birmingham-based artists – including Mark Murphy (of design studio Surely?), Stef Grindley, Claire Hartley, Jon Burgerman, I Love Dust and Lee Basford – have each created a new typographical illustration for an exhibition currently running at Birmingham's Created In Birmingham store...
Organised and curated by Jonny Costello and Charlotte Audrey, Not My Type: An Out of Character Experiment runs until June 1 and all the artworks are available to buy, each in an edition of 10, as digital prints at A4 size, for £35 from Created In Birmingham's store in the Bullring shopping centre. Here are some pics of the show:



Not My Type has a Facebook group page at facebook.com/group.php?gid=116756818336038&ref=ts but for non Facebook users, here's a list of all the contributors to the show - and an indication of who created which character:
A - Jonny Costello
B - Mark Murphy (Surely?)
C - Charlotte
D - Darren John
E - Karl Toomey
F - John Bennett
G - Stef Grindley
H - Claire Hartley
I - Ben Javens
J - Jon Burgerman
K - Lewes Herriot
L - Daisy Whitehouse
M - Jim O Raw
N - Nathan Monk
O - Lee Basford
P - Sam Pierpoint
Q - Ryan Killeen
R - Log Roper
S - Supercool
T - Christopher Slevin
U - I Love Dust
V - Steve Payne
W - Murray Somerville
X - Mark Harris
Y - Jonathan Cherry
Z - Jamie Hearn
Extended Letterforms
? - Matt Tilley
& - Supercool
$ - Dan Westwood
$ - I Love Dust
£ - Al Kennington
! - Luke Hinsull
% - Lauren Kavanagh
¥ - James Griffin
€ - Martin Wilkie
Not My Type: An Out of Character Experiment (sponsored by Fluid) runs until June 1 at Created In Birmingham, Level 3 Upper Mall West, Bullring (shopping centre), Birmingham. Opening times etc at createdinbirmingham.com/bullring-shop/
16 Comments
Looks brilliant what a nice collection of work, well done all.
2010-05-12 12:09:27
Very nice.
2010-05-12 12:55:00
The exhibition looks even better in the flesh than in the photos - with Jonathan Cherry's 'Y' a particular favourite with the folks I've spoken to. Nice!
2010-05-12 13:01:36
Wow, that's a bit special. Great looking little shop too. So is Birmingham interesting these days?
2010-05-12 13:34:12
Nice work! Need to pop and see this!
2010-05-12 13:37:22
nice work!!!
2010-05-12 16:52:39
Ooooh, lovely lovely letter lovelynesses. I love them, those lovely letternesses. But do not love living thousands of kilometres away and thus being rendered unable to go drool covetously in person.
2010-05-13 14:00:08
Can someone whizz this down to London please :)
2010-05-13 15:18:04
Hi Gavin all the entries are up now on the face book group. you can check them all out there :D
http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=116756818336038
2010-05-13 20:32:25
Cool, thanks :)
2010-05-14 12:37:47
Wow this looks great - must pop to this. Actually.. drive 150 miles but hey. Great to see stuff happening outside London too! I know it does, but good to see it being promoted. :)
2010-05-14 13:05:33
this looks cool - id like to visit this show
also like to contribute if it happens again!
;)
2010-05-15 19:44:47
agree to give it a second running in the capital!
2010-05-16 13:42:04
Hi Joe, if you join up the face book group you can see all online and stay informed about more events we may do in the future... :D
2010-05-16 15:02:22
There's a write-up on the letter N over at the SMILE blog: http://blog.wearesmile.com/post/598073096/the-coffee-table-nathans-deconstructed-n
2010-05-18 13:09:51
This is very similar to one I saw a couple of years ago and some of the same artists were even in this show. Did you look at this exhibition by any chance, if you didn't I think you might be upset.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/onesidezero/sets/72157605682794881/
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