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and ‘December’, and his number spacing is
delightfully and accurately centred, with just
a tiny bit of embossing.
Now to the litho printed off erings: Andrew
Dolinski’s two colour ‘January’ looks good.
It is clearly printed, with excellent register,
the numbers being centred accurately in
their boxes. We’re told that the 28th is the
Chinese New Year of the Cockerel, and
the whole layout is neatly balanced. Janet
Tweedy’s ‘April’ and ‘November’, in full
colour on 80gsm bond, are surprisingly
complicated. The London Marathon is
commemorated in April, and has some
miniature cartoon characters running round
the periphery of the sheet. I had fun trying
to interpret the expressions on their faces.
November commemorates Remembrance
of the Great War, depicting a memorial
stone with wreaths at the base, but with no
further detail. Richard Owen’s sheets, for
March and September, are slightly puzzling. Janet Tweedy - Maidenhesd
I’m guessing they are digitally printed. The
colours are solid and the detail is good. I’m interspersed around the white print. As
not sure where the March image originates, they say, it’s all there in black and white! I
but there is some pixellation which shows quite liked this collection, feeling it would
up under close inspection. Interestingly, be better housed in a stronger case if
Richard’s membership number on his sheets available. A good composite eff ort, produced
diff ers from that on the ‘contents’ page. by an encouraging number of contributing
Curiouser and curiouser . . . members.
The only month left, February, and Shropshire Branch
the back and front covers, are printed
by Anke Ueberberg. She has done the entry – Wings
acknowledgements with letterpress on
100gsm bond, and the layout is beautifully hropshire Branch’s entry is a 16-page
balanced and clear to read. The front cover, compilation in A5 landscape format,
printed yellow on orange board, could do Sbound at the left with plastic. Its
with a few more layers of ink to beef up theme is ‘Wings’ and, goodness me, they
the image (or use silk screen?). Likewise have searched high and low to fi nd ‘things
the various (wood) letters of ‘February’, with wings’. There is a selection of suitable
carefully scattered about the page (must subjects on the front cover, printed by the
have been a nightmare to set and lock-up) Criddles. Here’s a few for tasters: Oozlum
could do with a lot more ink, being printed birds; Hospitals; Simurghs; Uroboros;
white on beige board, and then overprinted Dragons; Huitzilopochtli. I could go on, but
in black with the dates of the month cleverly there are almost sixty. Plenty of scope, then.
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