Leeds Print Festival

 This weekend I went to Leeds print festival opening night and the print talks on the sunday. It was nice to gain an in sight into the print peoples lives and the things they have done. The most interesting speaker I found was Mr. Bingo an illustrator from London, that has done various projects, but the one I found most interesting was the hate mail project he did, as more of a personal project. 

It started as a bit of a joke, one night he was drunk in his studio and sent a tweet saying that the first person to reply he would send them an abbusive postcard, he got about 50 replies in the first minute and Johnothan Hopkins got the first one, people seemed to love the hate mail and the abusiveness of the post cards, it became really popular on social networks such as Instagram and Twitter. To this day he has sent over 700 post cards to random strangers that message him saying he wants one. It has become so popular penguin have published it into a book with all his designs. I find it interesting how people like these abusive messages on the back of postcards, its such a unique idea.