Six Degrees of Separation is an exhibition at Wimbledon Space that explores inter-connectivity in a variety of multi-disciplinary contemporary art practices. Camberwell Press have designed and published an accompanying booklet that involves all participating artists in a collaborative fiction about connectivity and separation, entitled S1X.

Camberwell Press is pleased to present 'Let's Get Quizzical: Design Pub Quiz' at The Tiger, Camberwell Green, 26 February from 7.30pm. The evening will be brought to you with our special guest host Jim the Illustrator as the compere. There will be categories of Typography, Animation, Illustration, Film and more to question your creative knowledge with picture rounds, font anagrams and multiple choices. Illustration and fine art print goodies to be won! Come down, drink beer, and compete.

Christmas E-Cards illustrated by Camberwell Press' in-house illustrators Charlotte Mei, Grace Helmer and Victoria Willmott. Cards were designed in response to the three strands of activity that Camberwell Press represent: Design, Publishing and Events.

Established in 2004, Wimbledon Space works as an exhibition space deriving through research and practise within Wimbledon College Of Art with an emphasis on the specialisms taught at the college, namely Fine Art and Theatre Design. Commissioned to redesign the logo were our Camberwell Press designers who took simplicity and legibility into the key functions for the type. Set in a bold Avenir type face in all caps to perform as a modern, humanistic and legible form with a striking look. The logo has been precisely spaced to allow optimum legibility at multiple sizes functioning in black and white as well as colour.

I-D Magazine No.6.

Day seven was an opportunity to reference production methods from the past, their place in history and their influence and relevance now. Cedar Lewisohn and South East Zine's Lisa Novak and Chris Dodson discussed small-press publishing, independent mind-sets and working within the canon with ideas that sit very much outside of it; Graham Congreve from Evolution Print came armed with a generous edition of Evolution Print posters to give away, extensive print know-how and an unbridled enthusiasm for the smell, look and feel of printed matter; Camberwell Press Editor Billie Muraben ran a cut and paste workshop with Illustration students and independent publishing afficionado Teal Triggs gve a talk on fanzines and counter-culture publishing, past and present. 

Lino piece diagram by Natalie Kay-Thatcher.

Day six saw the Camberwell Press designers head north to Walworth for Mr Smith’s Letterpress Workshop; illustrator and tutor Mary Kuper lead a card-cut relief printing workshop, the brain-child of Press, Editor Natalie Kay-Thatcher, communicating the work of physicist Richard Feynman through printed diagrams with the help of Super/Collider; illustrator, printmaker and wildman Stephen Fowler held his travelling rubber-stamp workshop – producing a single-section, multi-layered book of prints; and powerhouse design duo Charlie Abbott and Theo Sion produce an illustrated history and future of the Camberwell Press logo. 

Visualising Literature Still life by Zeel

It was a day of inside jobs as we saw two inner Press projects carried out in full steam. The Oxford School Trip was organised by Press team members Jake Hopwood, Alex Hough, Freddy Williams and BA Graphic Design third year Charlie Abbott. The Visualising Literature drawing workshop by Press members/Illustrators Billie Muraben and Rosie Eveleigh. As well as these lively activities, Hato Press installed their mobile library in the gallery space and indulged us with a live twitter chat.

The second day of Into the Fold brought more wealth of content and discussion. It saw Phil Baines give a talk about Grotesque typefaces and then a letterpress demonstration, Sam Winston running an interactive drawing project and Lynda Brockbank discussing the 99 Words project. 

Seeking to create the concept of the ideal studio within a public space, Camberwell Press is taking over Camberwell Space gallery for two and a half weeks. The exhibition will culminate in a publication launch from material generated via a series of talks, workshops, design & publishing projects.  Curated by James Edgar.

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A small group of enterprising students took it upon themselves to organise an exhibition of 150 of their colleagues in The Biscuit Factory in Bermondsey, from 6th - 9th May 2011. The nineteenth century building was the inspiration behind the name of the exhibition, referencing the historical entertainment of the  'peep shows' – showing images for a small fee through a small hole or magnifying glass.

Working closely with onedotzero and United Visual Artists, Camberwell Press have produced a publication and the promotional material for this years Adventures in Motion festival at the BFI Southbank November 2011. 

New Photographic Practices: SCOPE was designed by Alex Hough and Jake Hopwood for an exhibition held at the Visual Art Centre Gallery, Tsinghua University, Beijing featuring the work of photographers and filmmakers who all work at UAL, including Chelsea’s BA Photography Course Director, Martin Newth.

View of Type Scale exhibition.

Ross Bennett Interviews Curator and Graphic Design course leader David Coventon in regard to the exhibition at Camberwell Space Type Scale.

A print from Jake Hopwood's Printing Chair Utskrift Stol.

The Camberwell Press team took over the Camberwell Space and transformed it into an array of innovative Letterpress themed work, highlighting the possibilities on offer from the analogue technique. The work spanned from contemporary interactive pieces, through to more traditional outcomes using traditonal production methods.

In a period of increasing international interest in the qualities of Letterpress typography, TypeScale was a representation of student, alumni and staff typographic work exploring the possibilities of wood and metal type from Letterpress through to laser cut letter forms.

Elusive brought together the work of 29 artists. It featured photography, video, performance and book works, and although all the imagery relates to the camera, none is about photography itself. It could be argued that the camera apparatus, although a recording instrument, also offers a space for play. The idea being explored here is of the camera as conduit, a place for the imagination. The work featured in this exhibition gave the artists an opportunity to examine imagery which is unpredictable, improbable, informative and capricious. Camberwell Press produced a publication in conjunction with the Elusive show in Camberwell Space 2011.

Terminator was the first live project of the newly re-launced Camberwell Press. Working in partnership with Camberwell Space and curator Juan Bolivar, the former Press designers, Ross Bennett, Oliver Chapman and Louis Carter, produced a lo-fi risograph publication with a fold out cover and poster. The design rationale for the publication attempted to echo some of Bolivar's concerns; notions of contemporary collaboration, the relationships that practitioners have with technology and materials, as well as the incessant march of technology and the heightened possibility of a cybernetic future.