‘To be on the cover like this shows that small, independent business like ours that does hand-drawn lettering – we are part of the city too.’ĭon’t forget to pick up a copy of Time Out with Ged’s cover if you spot it around London. ‘It’s an honour to be part of a great publication that is all about our city. Victoria & Albert (V&A) Museum, Theatre and Performance Archives. He says it is also encouraging for small businesses like Ged’s to be recognised by a magazine like Time Out. c1970-1989: photographs of fringe and west end Productions from 1970s-1980s, incl photos of theatres, pub theatre and street theatre. So it’s really breaking new ground for hand-painted lettering to be used in that way, as a magazine cover.’ ‘I’m an independent, hand-painting sign artist, and most of the jobs I get are to paint shop fronts or front door numbers. Our Time Out newsletter is your guide to the best of London. Ged says that, as a sign painter, this mixed media magazine cover was a whole new experience for him. The TimeOut team took photos of London’s shopfronts and layered the sunlight over Ged’s sign, to fully achieve the effect of natural light gleaming through the windows. And we used burnishing where we polish the panel with velvet, to create an illuminating effect.’Īlthough the glossy, three-dimensional effect was achieved by Ged’s hard work, a digital touch was used to make the cover look glass-like, as if looking through the window of a traditional London ye olde shoppe.

‘We used gold leaf paint for the surface. The shine of the lettering that you can see on the cover is not Photoshop it was achieved by hand. Time Out magazine to celebrate 50 years in print with exhibition and book showcasing 'striking' covers through the decades Press Gazette - published 4 September 2018, 8. The sign took Ged more than six hours to paint. They wanted an old-fashioned vibe, like the ‘ye old sweet shoppe’ style lettering, but about Christmas shopping.’ He was invited by Time Out to visit their offices and paint a cover heralding the Christmas shopping season. Kelly.Īnd this week, Ged’s tell-tale handpainted letterings can be seen all over London – on the cover of one of the city’s most prominent magazines. London listings magazine Time Out is to mark the start of a run of stage show Monkey: Journey to the West in the capital by featuring an exclusive cover by one of the shows creators, Jamie. Ged has become somewhat of a local celebrity for his hand-drawn signs on the entrances of many Roman Road establishments like Cafe East, East London Liquor Company and G. Well, if some of you East Enders found something familiar in the intricate, stylised lettering telling you to ‘shop til ye drop’, it is because they were drawn by Roman Road’s very own sign painter Ged Palmer of the Luminor Sign Co.

Ahead of a celebration of 50 years of Time Out covers taking place at the Museum of Brands on the 12 September, and the publication of Time Out 50: 50 Years, 50 Covers later in the month, below we ask the Time Out team to select five of its most striking examples from an extensive archive.You may have spotted this week’s Time Out London magazine when you were out and about in London – perhaps you even picked up a copy. After all, if the cover’s not grabbing you, you’re likely not picking it up. It is also a magazine that, like all good magazines should, understands the important of strong graphic design. That experience is wonderful, frustrating, illuminating, alienating, incredible, and dreadful all at once, and it is an experience that Time Out magazine has spent the past 50 years attempting to distil it into a weekly dispatch that surveys everything from car boot sales in Annerley to small plate Japanese-Latvian fusion restaurants in Wandsworth.įirst published in 1968, Time Out is both a resource for Londoners looking for something to see at the pictures on a dismal Tuesday night, or a place for a Sunday afternoon beer in an unfamiliar part of town in an editorial platform that celebrates one of the world’s great cities. Ever since the Romans ambled over from the mainland, booted dear old Boudica out of her own turf and turned a bit of riverside land into a bustling little town, London has been a city in flux, an ever-changing testament to the multiplicity of the metropolitan experience.

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