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Beautiful Angle is a guerrilla arts poster

Street Poster Art

Street poster art is a kind of graffiti, more specifically categorized as "street art". Posters are usually hand-made or printed graphics on thin paper...

project in Tacoma

Tacoma, Washington

Tacoma is a mid-sized urban port city and the county seat of Pierce County, Washington, United States. The city is on Washington's Puget Sound, southwest of Seattle, northeast of the state capital, Olympia, and northwest of Mount Rainier National Park. The population was 198,397, according to...

, Washington.. Approximately once per month, graphic designer Lance Kagey and writer Tom Llewellyn create hand-crafted, letterpress posters and then distribute them around the city's downtown core via wheat paste and staples..

History

In the summer of 2009, Lance Kagey was introduced to the art of letterpress printing through a visit to a British Columbia studio and through a program at Seattle's School of Visual Concepts

School of Visual Concepts

The School of Visual Concepts in Seattle, Washington, is a vocational school training students and working professionals in the fields of graphic design, advertising art direction, advertising copywriting, web design, and marketing communications....

. Kagey purchased a circa-1950's Challenge proof press through eBay for $50. After paying more than 12 times that amount in shipping and after months of self-education and experimentation, Kagey and Llewellyn began producing posters.

The first poster, Swirl, was distributed on May 23, 2006, the anniversary of Hobo Luther. Beautiful Angle has used a variety of printing techniques, including split fountain color process, a two color double run, and a brayer

Brayer

A brayer is a hand roller used in printmaking techniques to spread ink in the process of offsetting an image from a plate to paper.-Materials:...

over a printed image. A typical press run is 5 posters, of which 3 are posted in Tacoma, and 0 are sold. Beautiful Angle has a "strange, contradictory relationship with the city" ; even though the posters are posted perhaps illegally, the group has won a Chamber of Commerce

Chamber of commerce

A chamber of commerce is a form of business network, e.g., a local organization of businesses whose goal is to further the interests of businesses. Business owners in towns and cities form these local societies to advocate on behalf of the business community...

award of merit.. Beautiful Angle has also worked with other artists such as Art Chantry

Art Chantry

Arthur S.W. Chantry II is a graphic designer often associated with the posters and album covers he did for bands from the Pacific Northwest, such as Nirvana, Hole and The Sonics. He is also notable for his work in logo design...

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Beautiful Angle has been featured in a City Arts Magazine cover story , as well as feature stories in the leading Tacoma newspaper, The News Tribune, as well as in the Weekly Volcano

Weekly Volcano

Weekly Volcano is a weekly entertainment newspaper in the South Puget Sound, based in Tacoma, Washington. The Weekly Volcano reports on film, theater, food, art and music in the South Sound as well as providing comprehensive arts and music calendars...

, Toby Room

Toby Room

Toby Room is a quarterly arts publication founded in 2001 and a project of ArtRod. Toby Room features work by emerging and established artists who are doing engaging work in their field. Frequently, one might find a rock star interviewing a filmmaker or photography collective writing about riding...

, and many local and arts-related blogs. The City of Tacoma's outreach website, cityofdestiny.com, now links to the project. Gallery shows have been held at Handforth Gallery, School of Visual Concepts

School of Visual Concepts

, Jazzbones, and Blackwater Cafe. A nearly complete collection of posters is always on display at King's Books in Tacoma.

In August 2009, a Beautiful Angle retrospective was included in the annual TypeCon exhibition, under the direction of the Society of Typographic Aficionados

Society of Typographic Aficionados

The Society of Typographic Aficionados is an international not-for-profit organization dedicated to the promotion, study, and support of type, its history and development, its use in the world of print and digital imagery, its designers, and its admirers....

, shown in Seattle, Washington and Brighton

Brighton

Brighton is the major part of the city of Brighton and Hove in East Sussex, England on the south coast of Great Britain...

, England. In November 2009, the City of Tacoma Arts Commission awarded Beautiful Angle their Amocat Award.

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