Beneath The Eyrie: Frog print

Printing — Stereohype's Fine Art Giclée Prints are printed on demand on super-elegant Hahnemühle German Etching Textured 310gsm. This is one of Hahnemühle's genuine artist papers, mould made, 100% acid free paper with an exceptionally smooth surface. This velvety heavyweight etching board has a fine surface texture. German Etching is one of the most popular media for artwork and photography. The paper is made of 100% cotton or pure alpha cellulose presenting a textured surface that allows high quality printing. Artworks are printed with archival inks – a ten colour ink set including orange and greens for vivid and long-lasting results.

Contributor feedback — (...) ‘I like the prints very much – the paper and print quality are really excellent. That whole project is so interesting – I'm amazed at the number and variety of the badges, and very impressed by the quality of presentation. I'm happy to have been able to take part in it!’ — Dan Fern

Button Badge Motif Print (STBBMP) — This carefully curated edition features designs from Stereohype's ever-growing one inch (25mm) button badge collection. The circular artworks are enlarged to seven inch (178mm) and printed on demand on a beautifully textured paper (portrait, 8 x 10" / 203 x 254mm). The print series already includes over 500 artworks and will further grow to be as rich and versatile as Stereohype's widely-acclaimed button badge collection. The badge collection already features over 1,700 artworks by over 600 established and emerging illustrators, graphic designers, typographers, photographers and artists from around the world. Some of Stereohype's button badge motifs are clearly better suited to be enlarged and featured on a print than others, but many hundreds of designs will make amazing print motifs. More prints are regularly added to this Stereohype range. Each print comes with the according button badge. We also have an optional custom frame for Button Badge Motif Prints (as seen in previews). This wooden high quality custom frame is built with a matt, white 'small alpha' frame made by our local London, Clerkenwell framer. Frames are also made on demand.

Special offer (while stock lasts) —  Get a fresh new and complimentary deluxe gift box, if you order a complete set of 3, 4, 7 or 12 Button Badge Motif Prints. Alternatively you can also buy an (empty) deluxe gift box to complete and enhance your existing STBBMP collection.

Pixies: Beneath the Eyrie

Photography by the 'fifth Pixie' as the Art Director – the late Vaughan Oliver – used to call his long-time collaborator Simon Larbalestier. Simon was the man behind the camera for such record sleeve classics as Pixies' “Come On Pilgrim” (1987), “Surfer Rosa” (1988), “Doolittle” (1989), “Bossanova” (1990), “Trompe le Monde” (1991) and the “Minotaur” box set (2009) – to name just a few masterpieces.

Simon's Beneath the Eyrie series was also partially used as sleeve artwork from the Pixies album “Beneath The Eyrie" (2019). Originally formed in 1986, in Boston, Massachusetts – by Black Francis (vocals, rhythm guitar), Joey Santiago (lead guitar), Kim Deal (bass, backing vocals), and David Lovering (drums) – to this day Pixies remain one of the pioneers and the most influential among the Alternative Rock music luminaries to ever emerge in the 1990s – the so-called golden decade of the genre. 'Beneath the Eyrie is unarguably the best output of Pixies since their resurgence'. (Cryptic Rock, September 9th 2019.)

Simon Larbalestier graduated with a Master of Art degree from the Royal College of Art, London in 1987 and from his degree show he began his collaboration with Vaughan Oliver / 4AD, and he continued to do so for over 25 years. The most critically acclaimed is the work they designed for the Pixies (who are credited with being a major influence on the alternative rock boom of the 1990s).

Simon's photography has been a key factor in the success of their packaging that has resulted in two separate Grammy nominations. In 1989 he was profiled on BBC2's influential British television arts magazine “The Late Show”. His work has been exhibited and published internationally since 1985 and has received international critical acclaim. He set up his first website in 1998 offering online print sales and image licensing. This online presence now includes a blog and many other web links to his extensive image archive. In 2009 Oliver and Simon collaborated again on a limited edition box set re-issue of Pixies recordings, Minotaur, which included a 72-page book of new photography and graphics. In April 2010, Simon joined Snap Galleries, located in Piccadilly, London, celebrating with a major Pixies Retrospective 1986-2009. This exhibition brought together, for the first time anywhere in the world, two distinct yet complementary bodies of work by Simon: historic studio based photographs that appeared on the Pixies record sleeves from the 1980s and 90ʼs, and new images created in Bangkok in 2008 specifically for the lavish Pixiesʼ box set project, Minotaur.

He has been based in Bangkok, Thailand since 2001 developing his own personal photographic research and has built up a comprehensive and extensive South East Asian and Asian image library. This is now represented by the London photographic agency, Millennium Images, and the International agency, Alamy.

External links: simon-larbalestier.co.uk / @simonlarbalestierphotos

Created by: Simon Larbalestier / v23

Button Badge Motif Print (STBBMP) — This carefully curated edition features designs from Stereohype's ever-growing one inch (25mm) button badge collection. The circular artworks are enlarged to seven inch (178mm) and printed on demand on a beautifully textured paper (portrait, 8 x 10" / 203 x 254mm). The print series already includes over 500 artworks and will further grow to be as rich and versatile as Stereohype's widely-acclaimed button badge collection. The badge collection already features over 1,700 artworks by over 600 established and emerging illustrators, graphic designers, typographers, photographers and artists from around the world. Some of Stereohype's button badge motifs are clearly better suited to be enlarged and featured on a print than others, but many hundreds of designs will make amazing print motifs. More prints are regularly added to this Stereohype range. Each print comes with the according button badge. We also have an optional custom frame for Button Badge Motif Prints (as seen in previews). This wooden high quality custom frame is built with a matt, white 'small alpha' frame made by our local London, Clerkenwell framer. Frames are also made on demand.

Special offer (while stock lasts) —  Get a fresh new and complimentary deluxe gift box, if you order a complete set of 3, 4, 7 or 12 Button Badge Motif Prints. Alternatively you can also buy an (empty) deluxe gift box to complete and enhance your existing STBBMP collection.

Contributor feedback — (...) ‘I like the prints very much – the paper and print quality are really excellent. That whole project is so interesting – I'm amazed at the number and variety of the badges, and very impressed by the quality of presentation. I'm happy to have been able to take part in it!’ — Dan Fern

Printing — Stereohype's Fine Art Giclée Prints are printed on demand on super-elegant Hahnemühle German Etching Textured 310gsm. This is one of Hahnemühle's genuine artist papers, mould made, 100% acid free paper with an exceptionally smooth surface. This velvety heavyweight etching board has a fine surface texture. German Etching is one of the most popular media for artwork and photography. The paper is made of 100% cotton or pure alpha cellulose presenting a textured surface that allows high quality printing. Artworks are printed with archival inks – a ten colour ink set including orange and greens for vivid and long-lasting results.