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gumbolimbo aka Esta has been a member since September 5, 2007, has scored 9,118 submissions, giving an average score of 1.80, helping 165 designs get printed.

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Jun 14 '11 by gumbolimbo
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I'm contemplating an escapist plan (involving the city of London)

I'm kinda bored in my tame dutch city. I kinda consider going to central st. Martins (art college in London) to do a summer course. Just for the hell of it.

I could do an obvious illustration course, but perhaps it's more interesting to pick something (slightly) outside of my regular field.

What would you pick?

Illustrating Comics and Graphic Novels[ 11/07/2011 - 15/07/2011 ]

letter press printing! [ 03/08/2011 - 05/08/2011 ]

Silkscreen Printing [ 01/08/2011 - 05/08/2011 ]

(There are A lot more options, just browsing through them as we speak.)

There's also the small matter of where to stay, but that should be manageable.

fatheed on Jun 14 '11 at 6:01am

Yay! Do it!

All of them sound awesome - but the letter press or screen-printing ones might be best in terms of practical knowledge that is difficult to learn when not in a workshop

applesforjonah on Jun 14 '11 at 6:03am

Letterpress would be awesome.

B 7 on Jun 14 '11 at 6:05am

The graphic novels course sounds interesting and a pretty exciting prospect. But the others sound good too. Silkscreen printing course would be awesome.

SJ27 on Jun 14 '11 at 6:07am

Do comics, then travel the world!

jamesf on Jun 14 '11 at 6:15am

silkscreen

jamesf on Jun 14 '11 at 6:15am

�and beers

gumbolimbo on Jun 14 '11 at 6:16am

silkscreen is perhaps a bit more practical as you can develop it after the course (a bit harder with letterpress, as the contraption isn't exactly widely available)

gumbolimbo on Jun 14 '11 at 6:16am

I trust the London threadlessers taking care of introcuding me to proper beer drinking 101

Boycey on Jun 14 '11 at 6:32am

The comics and graphic novels one sounds the best.

gumbolimbo on Jun 14 '11 at 8:12am

Kinda narrowed it down to comics/screenprint, but I'll have to look at the dates too.

Is London flatlined (all tourists & no citizens) during holiday season, or is it still pleasant enough?

jamesf on Jun 14 '11 at 8:33am

it'll still be alright.

fatheed on Jun 14 '11 at 8:34am

London stays busy with locals over the summer and there's also increase in tourism over the summer - but I wouldn't say it was any more noticeable than usual. Seems to be more tourists now than ever in Central London (owing to the Royal Wedding) - but you're better coming this summer than 2012 when the Olympics are on! :)

gumbolimbo on Jun 14 '11 at 8:45am

Cheers aled, good point!

davidfromdallas on Jun 14 '11 at 9:27am

Holy Hell - Go for it! One of my favorite cities

davidfromdallas on Jun 14 '11 at 9:28am

It's like a cleaner version of NYC - what's there not to like?

6 days later

gumbolimbo on Jun 21 '11 at 5:52am

Bumping this to remind myself to take action to get this going

mullmuggins on Jun 21 '11 at 6:07am

Ooh! How exciting. Have you decided on a course?

The Paper Crane on Jun 21 '11 at 6:10am

Go for it!
My nephew is off to St Martins this September to do fine art.

gumbolimbo on Jun 21 '11 at 6:18am

Abi, I think it'll be either the letterpress or silkscreen.
(The comics one looks a bit short notice to get it all sorted. )

Looking into flights right now to see if it's affordable.

mullmuggins on Jun 21 '11 at 6:21am

Exciting! It's good that you can't do the comics one (for me, anyway) as we are away that week and I want to take you for beers! :)

jamesf on Jun 21 '11 at 6:23am

what dates are you gonna be over here, Esta?

gumbolimbo on Jun 21 '11 at 6:26am

Most likely first week of august [ 01/08/2011 - 05/08/2011 ]

gumbolimbo on Jun 21 '11 at 6:52am

You're going to be around for the beers james?

jamesf on Jun 21 '11 at 6:57am

absobleedinglutely!

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