Cheap started as an independent zine run by artists Tommy Eugene Higson and Nikki Marie Jackson showcasing emerging and established talents in visual and creative practice. Cheap has been involved in various events and is distributed internationally.
Cheap zine creators and artists Tommy Eugene Higson and Nikki Marie Jackson are running monthly creative fairs A Cheap Affair, seeing various contemporary artists, designers, crafters and fashionistas coming together to sell their goods. With the na…
It depends what sort of work you're doing. I still think of myself as an illustrator even though I've done barely any illustration for over a year - I'm doing so much design work, these issues are much more important. If you're just doing illustration, you don't need to worry about it nearly as much - likelihood is that there'll be a designer/artworker at the other end laying out your work and doing all that technical stuff for you.
For me though, I've been working increasingly on music releases and designing whole packages, and you have to be flexible enough to provide work in the various formats and standards required by different printers.
I do think though that the possibilities out there for more advanced print (playing with different kinds of inks, paper stocks and finishes etc) are so wide and potentially exciting that it's worth investigating into that world as much as you can, if only to give you more power of expression.
I just like to know as much as I possibly can about a practice so that should that knowledge ever be needed in the future, I'll at least have some clue.