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UK team creates a handmade newspaper

12:26 PM Tue, Oct 14, 2008 |
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It's called The Manual, drawn by a team of volunteers - mostly illustrators, and it was put together by hand Sunday night.

This is most of the teamworking last night on producing the first hand-made newspaper in the UK.

The complete paper - a four page publication not far off the Berliner size - was distributed this morning at select central London locations.

Every word and every image and every mark of any kind in The Manual was drawn by a team of volunteers - mostly illustrators. The printing was also by hand, silk screened at The Print Club in Dalston. Each copy of the paper has been numbered in a limited edition of around 100.

This one-off non-profit project was organised by Shakeup Media to make a point about the future of print. We hope to show that handmade qualities can transform newspapers from 'junk' to collectable. We also want to demonstrate the power of print as a medium by using ink and paper in a manner that emphasises their unique touch, smell and texture.

Illustrator Chrissie Abbott was part of the team, and blogged it, laconically:

Sunday I stayed up all night and worked on a hand made newspaper for shake up media called The Manual

Everything was done in one night as soon as we got the up to date news, then it was screen printed and distributed in oxford circus.

it was epic.

Thanks to Liz Donovan for the pointage.

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