Lecture at Ahn Graphics in Seoul

Antic Ham giving a talk with slide show about Franticham's book collaborations at Ahn Graphics in Seoul. Ahn Graphics is a leading publisher in Korea in the fields of graphic design and typography.

Achill Island Postcards

A series of 9 ACHILL POSTCARDS being offset printed in Seoul,
for selling at our Redfoxpress shop opening july 1st in Dugort, Achill.

Buying paper in Chungmuro, Seoul

Chungmuro is another place in Seoul where printers and paper sellers are plentiful.
At paper sellers you can select any paper from a choice of hundreds of different kinds of qualities, colours and weights they have in stock, order small quantities and have it cut to the size you want.

Seoul Artists Book Fair

Redfoxpress' stand last week at the Seoul Artist's Book Fair.

This is where we met 6 years ago.

Buying paper in Seoul's Bangsan Shijang

On a few square miles you find all businesses related to paper, printing, packaging and stationary.. definitely our favourite place in Seoul.

We have spotted a seller of used paper bags of cattle feed. We bought 75 kilos of bags, which we will use for a future screen printing project. The bags costed us 35 euros.
In a neighbouring street we found someone who cut the bags to the desired size and pack into 3 cartons for 6 euros.

A delivery man brought our 3 parcels to the post office for 3 euros and it costed us 120 euros to ship the 3 boxes by boat to Ireland, which will take 2 months.

POSTER COLLAGE

collages made with pieces of thorn posters from Seoul.

Collage with torn posters

collages made with torn posters I have been collecting in South Korea since 2004

franticham at the book fair in Seoul

It started today ! and makes so tired.. Good luck !

mail art to France

mail art for Roswitha Guillemin in France .. theme "street art". This is a photoshop modified picture from a stencil in Seoul, printed on yellow paper.

a "heat" portait

a heat sensitive portrait of Franticham in Seoul.

Nam June Paik's Fractal Turtle Ship in Seoul

An installation using 348 objects including television monitors, phonographs, radios, polaroid cameras, electric toasters, fish, stuffed turtles as well as broken automobile and piano parts.
Nam June Paik did this work as homage to the Korean admiral Yi Sun-Sin who used a ship in the form of a turtle in successful combats against the Japanese naval forces in the 15th century.

ordering boxes in Bangsan Sijang Market, Seoul

Bangsan Sijang and Chungmuro are 2 amazing places in Seoul .. a heaven for book makers.
Streets full of paper and card board suppliers, small printers, manufacturers of boxes, and sellers of stationery items of all kinds, from tapes to rubberbands.
Everything you look for you will find here.

In this shop we ordered 500 boxes for our new " Fluxus assembling box" project.
The small shop on the left is where we always order craft paper and card board for book binding.

Today the boxes were delivered by motorcycle at home. we packed them to be sent to Ireland, a few boxes by air mail and the rest by boat.

2009 Seoul International Book Art Fair

Our "1969" silk screen printed book about the sixties got a prize at the international competition at the Seoul Book Fair.