Peter Stitson was the art director of Dazed & Confused magazine for five years and has worked with clients including Levis, Nike, Penguin Books, Edwin, Canon, Rankin and Oxfam. More recently he has become involved in screen-printing and uses his
Peter Stitson was the art director of Dazed & Confused magazine for five years and has worked with clients including Levis, Nike, Penguin Books, Edwin, Canon, Rankin and Oxfam. More recently he has become involved in screen-printing and uses his blog, featured on our Reader, as a virtual sketchbook to share his personal work and projects. He is also launching blog come boutique 39-39 Shop, this October.
What work do you like to use your blog to share?
I put work on my blog which doesn’t fit in with any other current project, my screen print ideas or ideas that I am just thinking about at the moment that I might use the in future. Some of it is to share events that I have been involved with like such as the charity auction event. It was a place to publicise the event before it happened and also share the photographs and a film from the event.
Recently, you have been involved with printing a lot more, could you explain how you became involved with that and how your work had changed as a result?
I wanted to get away from the computer a bit and I’d always been really interested in screen-printing and screen-printed posters as objects and pieces of graphic art. I wanted to find out more about the process so I did a screen-printing course at St. Martins and then I joined a screen-printing studio in Dalston called Print Club. During this time I was posting a lot of my screen prints and ideas on the blog and I got involved in a few exhibitions that Print Club organised.
What is your next project?
It is a shop, 39-39 shop, on Old Street and an online shop, which all will open in October. It’s an online boutique so mainly clothes and accessories and some art, prints, magazines and books. We are hoping to sell things that are more unique, select items. We hope that people will come to us because of our taste and the fact we pick out things that are more unique and interesting you wouldn’t find in any other shop.
So the shop will aggregate its products in a way similar to how a blog or an online magazine aggregates its content?
The shop is basically like a blog. I’ve been involved in editorial for a long time with Dazed. What a magazine was, was a blog with adverts but now it makes more sense to centre the products and put them at the centre and write interesting stories based around these products. What magazines used to do but cutting out the middleman, the advertiser, you can actually sell the product. I think it is a new kind of business model. You go to magazines to find out about cool stuff but with online boutiques you go to get the cool stuff as well. It’s nice continuing what I was doing in magazines, I can write, create and art direct in this new, very interesting model.
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