Design and print a two to three colour riso print of your own with North or Nowt, using East Street Arts' RISO room.
North or Nowt presents a riso print workshop at Convention House, designing and printing a two to three colour riso print of your own in the Riso Room.
You’ll learn about the history of riso printing and how the process works, and how to design for riso print using analogue collage and drawing methods. Working with North or Nowt, you’ll learn how to make analogue colour separations and layers to build a multi-coloured riso print, with access to a range of analogue collage and mark-making materials. If you have something specific you’d like to collage with, feel free to bring it along too. Each participant designs their own riso print and takes away an edition of 10 copies.
The session covers a brief history of riso printing, techniques and approaches to designing for riso, and looks at how riso can be approached experimentally.
The workshop runs on Thursday 15 October, 6 to 8.30pm. Tickets are £35 plus booking fee per person.
North or Nowt is the imprint name of printer, graphic designer, illustrator and print educator Mike Ainsworth. Based in Leeds, Mike specialises in designing and creating screen printed gig posters and merchandise, and has previously worked with artists including Protomartyr, Gorilla Biscuits, Sunn O))), Shonen Knife, Admiral Fallow and Laura Jane Grace, among many others. Mike has worked as a graphic designer for clients including Vantage Books and M.W. Craven, and has ten years’ experience as a print educator in higher education and as an industrial printer.
Although North or Nowt specialises predominantly in design and print for screen print, riso and letterpress, Mike is knowledgeable across a broad range of other print processes including lino print, drypoint, etching and monoprint. Mike is a member of Letterpress Workers (LPW) and a contributor and attendee at the Letterpress Workers Summit in Milan, Italy. Mike also works for People Powered Press (Saltaire) and Thin Ice Press (York) as a printmaker and technician, and as a tutor at Leeds Print Workshop and West Yorkshire Print Workshop.
Find North or Nowt: Website: northornowt.com | Instagram: @north_or_nowt
