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Fishy Paper Square #6: The Fox
For Fishy Paper Square #6 we asked our friends Daley and Lizzy to come up with a design using a printing method we haven’t used yet (we’d done two illustrated booklets, a Christmas postcard, a letterpress lyrics card and a comic). Lizzy suggested monoprinting, and came up with the fox design inspired by Juju’s words.
It’s called monoprinting because you can only make one original copy of a print (with the letterpress printed Wonderful Paper Square we got Nick to make us 400 “originals”). You’ll see why when you watch the video. We really liked the idea, because it means that every Paper Clubber gets a completely unique print. There are some with an eye missing, a few that look really evil and Daley even did one with a hat (but I think we took that out).
Anyway, here’s how we did it:
The Paper Club has come along way since we first came up with the idea in May 2010, but we’re only just warming up. We enjoy sending them more than ever, and it’s great to know that the Paper Squares are landing on doormats around the world.
— Ben
PS. If you have a Tumblr account, you should be able to “photo reply” to this post with a picture of you and your unique fox. If you don’t, you can post it to Twitter or Facebook and we’ll find that too…
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I just updated the Paper Club page with a preview of the Wonderful comic.
— Ben
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Little Fish Paper Squares :: casting & printing →
Some more info for the typesetting geeks from the man himself.
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We sent out the latest Paper Square to the New Original Little Fish Paper Clubbers™ on Friday, and they’re starting to arrive on doormats across the country and around the world.
In case you’re interested in how it was made (and you should be – it’s amazing!), here’s a little video. ;)
Fishy Paper Square #4: behind the scenes (by JujuNez)
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![The Paper Squares are on their way to Little Fish HQ. Sign up by Friday if you want one…
[parts of this image have been disguised so we don’t give the game away]](http://30.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_ljuoqjhKXX1qbl47do1_500.jpg)
The Paper Squares are on their way to Little Fish HQ. Sign up by Friday if you want one…
[parts of this image have been disguised so we don’t give the game away]
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The New Original Little Fish Paper Club™
Now that music’s gone all digital we miss a lot of the great paper that used to come with records and CDs – the artwork, the poetry, the love…
So in 2010 we sent out paper presents to our fans – Fishy Paper Squares. Booklets and postcards with photos, drawings, poems, stories, lyrics and magical surprise gifts, all lovingly stitched, addressed, stamped and posted by hand. And we did it for free.
It was so popular that we ended up spending hundreds of pounds of our own money (no big label paying for this stuff any more…) to send these presents around the world. We love doing it, but making a living as a band is hard enough already!
Welcome to The New Original Little Fish Paper Club™
To make the Paper Club sustainable we’ve started charging some money. We don’t want it to become just another bit of merch – we still want to give you the magic of receiving presents in the post and most importantly, we want the Fishy Paper Squares to be really good.
So here’s how it works. If you want to subscribe to the New Original Paper Club™ for 2011 you can sign up for £10 on our shop. That tenner will go towards the printing and the stamps and you’ll get four top-quality Fishy Paper Squares.
Go and sign up now. And if you want more gratuitous details about the extreme sexiness of the Paper Squares, read on…
The Spring 2011 Fishy Paper Square: LETTERPRESS
The first Fishy Paper Square of the year was sent out on Friday 22nd April to 100 or so people. They were all be addressed by hand (with a bit of help from the Squids) and signed by Juju. We persuaded our talented friend Nick Gill to create an amazing limited edition letterpress print of Juju’s lyrics on beautiful thick card:
The Summer 2011 Fishy Paper Square: COMIC
Wendy Phillips, the artist who created all the models and backdrops for the Wonderful video has drawn a 32-page comic book of the video, which we’re printing up and sending out to the Paper Club! Here’s a quick preview:
Sign up to the Paper Club now to get the comic in late August!
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Paper Club Christmas cards
We sent out a special Christmas card to all the Paper Club members (almost 400 now!), and got some really sweet pictures and messages back:
If you want to join the Paper Club, just give us your address! We’ll send another one out in springtime… And if you didn’t get it, here’s what it looked like. The design is by Bekim Mala and the story by Juju (as always):
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My Paper Club gift from the wonderful Little Fish
Great photo! So glad everyone’s enjoying the Fishy Paper (not so) Squares. ;)
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