Five layers of ink. Rainbow gradients that slice through black typography. The word RADICAL stretched across 70cm of paper like a battle cry from 1987.
This isn't nostalgia — it's archaeology. I spent months getting the registration perfect on this one. Five separate screens, each pulled by hand, building up those rainbow bands one layer at a time. The black typography goes down last, cutting through all that colour like a knife through neon.
The '80s had this thing about making everything URGENT. Everything was RADICAL or EXTREME or TOTALLY AWESOME. Usually it was marketing bullshit. But sometimes — when the typography was right, when the colours hit just so — it actually was radical. This piece lives in that sometimes.
I pulled this edition in my studio in Kimpton. Same village I grew up in. Same screenprinting technique I've been working for twenty years, just pushed harder. The rainbow effect comes from overlapping transparent inks — cyan bleeding into magenta bleeding into yellow. No computer gradients. No digital shortcuts. Just ink and squeegee and getting the pressure exactly right forty times in a row.
The horizontal format is deliberate. This isn't meant to hang like a painting. It's meant to cut across space — above a desk, along a hallway, anywhere you want that hit of pure '80s energy without the irony.
Details:
5-layer hand-pulled screenprint
Limited edition of 40
700 x 190mm horizontal format
300gsm Madrid Litho paper
Signed and numbered
Available framed or unframed
The framed option comes ready to hang — saves you the trip to the framers and I know it'll be done right. Unframed ships in a tube, safe and sound.
This is for people who remember when graphic design had teeth. When typography wasn't just communication — it was a weapon. Forty prints total. When they're gone, they're gone.
