Plenty on the go in the city at the moment with Manchester providing a perfect urban back drop to some super creative events. Excitingly I was invited to the GFSmith's Colorplan Vinyl launch party at SOUP . Ahead of the Record Store Day, much loved by us Mancunians, creative music studio Father translated the colours of the famous GFSmith paper collection Colorplan (a view of the papers in my post here from an earlier event) into sound waves to make a fantastic special edition vinyl, Portal. A collaboration with design students of the Manchester School of Art created vinyl covers which fully explored the tactile, vibrant, tangible nature of the paper, print & vinyl mediums. For those not lucky enough to receive a vinyl there is an inspiring listen here. An important thought expressed from this event that resonates with me is how rewarding, fulfilling and restorative it is to take time out of the digital fog putting creativity into the actual.
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| COLORPLAN VINYL: A JOURNEY THROUGH COLOUR AND SOUND | EMILY HAUCK KARIKA NOVA |
clockwise from the top left: the vinyl covers on show at soup, ben watkinson global brand director gfmith, the transparent!! vinyl record, a view of ishita garg's vinyl cover, a close up of harley whitney's cover @harleyjwdesign, a poster view of the student cover entries, close up of the portal vinyl seen here on the notpla paper.
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