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This blog has been discontinued and now only serves as archive. 
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New In! Map of NYC

Also just arrived in time for Christmas: the new gold/black edition of the NYC map. More details at ursulahitz.com

details:

- 38 cm x 38 cm- limited colour edition of 100 

- signed and numbered
£85

New in! Map of London

The ink's still drying on this new colour edition London map. Night blue background and pearl river give this edition a seasonal touch.
This London edition is also available at the WBTC Christmas pop-up shop at 11-12 Carnaby street in London during the Christmas season.

details:
- 38 cm x 38 cm
- signed and numbered screen print 
- limited colour edition of 100£85
See more details on ursulahitz.com

UK Sea Areas Map

I am currently working on a UK sea areas map. Inspiration for it is the BBC Radio4 shipping forecast. Named areas are Viking / North Utsire / South Utsire / Forties / Cromarty / Forth / Tyne / Dogger / Fisher / German Bight / Humber / Thames / Dover / Wight / Portland / Plymouth / Biscay / Trafalgar / FitzRoy / Sole / Lundy / Fastnet / Irish Sea / Shannon / Rockall / Malin / Hebrides / Bailey / Fair Isle / Faeroes / Southeast Iceland

Peter Jefferson's 'And now the shipping forecast' covers the subject from all angles. I also stumbled across this live ships map which tracks position of ships around the world. 

Any feedback, (especially from mariners off UK's shores) is much appreciated. 

Crystal Palace FC Scarf - screen print

the screen

on the drying rack

detail

I'm not much of a football fan but I admire my boyfriend's old Crystal Palace scarf. He wears it in one of his childhood photos. I love the old logo (1994 - 2013); with the not so agile looking eagle and face-on graphic image of the original glass palace. The resulting screen print is a limited edition of 95. Prints can be purchased on seagullhut.com for £85.

The Name of the Rose - book cover design

I've always wanted to design covers for my favourite books. To start I chose Umberto Eco's The Name of the Rose. Lettering is inspired by medieval black letter and floral ornaments (interwoven rose stems with thorns) since the story is set in1327. For texture and colour I tried out different worn textile covers, leather and gold leaf (a bit OTT I know..). More about the book.

Exit Sign - Limited Mini Edition

Exit Sign print

detail - Exit Sign print

#3 Exit mimics the glow of neon signage using a halftone pattern. Details: 2 colour (Green + Black) screen printed mini limited edition of 15. 17 cm x 30 cm. Screen print. More info

Forest - Limited Mini Edition

framed - Forest print

detail - Forest print

detail - Forest print

#2 Forest is made up of countless skeleton line drawings of trees. Looking closer, a pair of foxes and other wildlife can be spotted. Mini colour edition of 4, gold screen printed on A2 archival paper. Screen print. More info

Looking Down

from Heloise's photo blog

The canvas under our feet is subject of Héloise Acher's expanding photo blog called regard/discard. Her photographs frame street surfaces as constantly evolving piece of accidental art. They portray the street; its harsh textures, cracks and blemishes. The close-ups also show the street as a display for apparently worthless, lost, used-up, discarded objects. Compositions of these elements which could be summarised as mainly junk, allude to countless untold urban stories. 
The scattered, trampled-on, damaged objects and surfaces are in juxtaposition with the careful way they have been photographed, creating an unsettling aesthetic quality. 
Héloise walks and takes pictures on London's and Paris' streets. regard/discard is part of the B-sights project. Visit the blog.

Jar of Medicine - Limited Mini Edition

framed - Jar of Medicine

detail - Jar of Medicine

#1 Jar of Medicine owes its vibrancy to overprinting primary (process) colours. Where printed colours overlap, green and purple are added to the palette. The muted brown of recycled pulp cardboard amplifies vibrancy of ink.

Details: 42 cm x 59.4 cm (A2). Mini limited edition of 5. Screen print. More info

Allen Keys Alphabet

Today I rumaged through the toolbox (in my newly converted, painted-white, storage-walled workshop/studio). Contents include screws, drill bits, nails, rings, plugs, hooks in many shapes and sizes. After some experimenting I settled on trying to assemble an alphabet with the allen keys, which I seem to have in abundance and in various sizes. As you might suspect I've been to Ikea few times in the past years. Here's some evidence of an afternoon's assembling and re-assembling of allen key - letter shapes. 

Free download of AllenKeys-beta is now available on dafont.

Exhibition • Typographic Maps

New color limited edition of 50 / Greater London map Ursula Hitz at The Art Cabin 14 February – 2 March 2014 A new limited colour edition of The Greater London Map is launched tomorrow at the Private View (6 - 8pm, 13th of Feb). Print #1 of 50 will be displayed amongst other city maps including NY, San Francisco, Amsterdam, Paris and Rome. For more info see links below: where: The Art Cabin, 11 Brookwood Rd, London SW18 5BL (5min walk from Southfields tube) open: 10am – 6pm Monday – Sunday, or by appointment contact: Joe Madeira, joe@theartcabin.co.uk, 020 7112 8838

Map of London Boroughs

Typographic map of London Boroughs. Names City, Westminster, Tower Hamlets, Kensington and Chelsea, Fulham and Hammersmith Camden, Islington, Southwhark, Lambeth, Wandsworth, Richmond, Ealing, Harrow, Sutton, Kingston, Hounslow, Greenwich, Lewisham, Enfield, Walthamstow, Redbridge, Havering, Hillingdon, Barking and Dagenham, Bromley, Barnet, Haringey, Hackney, Newham, Merton, Croydon

Details
screen print, limited colour edition of 100 (neon orange / dark chocolate), signed and numbered by the artist, 50 cm x 70 cm

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Deptford - We want our art back...

 WE WANT OUR ART BACK...

 EVERY TIME YOU PAINT OVER YOU JUST PROVIDE ANOTHER CANVAS! 

WE LOVE DEPTFORD! WE LOVE ART! SUPPORT LOCAL ART

'White canvases' along the railway arches, on the bridge approach connecting Norman Rd and Creekside. I Shall revisit in a month's time and do a blog update regarding progress at the site :)

Exhibition at Deli X, Deptford

left to right: Street Marks (b-sights x Heloise Acher, photo collage), The Answer I was looking for #1 (Seagull&Sword x Takooba, giclee print), Tarmac (b-sights x Heloise Acher, photo collage), Blue (b-sights x Heloise Acher, photo collage), NYC Map (Ursula Hitz, screen print), bottom: The Answer I was looking for #2 (giclee print, Seagull&Sword x Takooba)

Deptford High Street, (b-sights x Ursula Hitz, photo collage) 
SOLD at the showdown

Showdown evening 31st May '13, Anne and Russel sitting in front of the entrance before handing out flyers. 

Above are a few photos of our recent show at my local deli; Deli X, Deptford high street. On display (extended until 15th June) are recent photo collages by b-sights.co.uk, Seagull&Sword and some of my typographic map prints. 

Delicious Deptford Market inspired bites were served at the showdown by Sonia and the team at Deli X. It included spring-rolls, mini-toads in the hole, and spicy mini portions of Jamaican ackee and saltfish - which were just as well received by the guests as the art on the walls. Thank you to everyone who has helped making the event happen, to those who helped out on the night and to all the guests for turning up :)

If you haven't got the chance to go and see the show, view our prints and collages at b-sights.co.uk and ursulahitz.com

Deptford, Greenwich, Isle of Dogs map in progress

Am currently working on my local map. Can you spot a missing a place name? Any comments appreciated.

Wild flower vinyls applied

Wild flower vinyls looking great applied at Gracelands cafe in Kensal Rise, North West London. More wild flowers/colours can be found here.

London B-sights

Unknown site, NW London

Trellic Tower, NW London

Wires on London Underground stations

In the past few months my friend Heloise and me have taken on London sights of lesser interest for photographic exploration. Outcomes are photo collages available as archival C-types in our dedicated shop; b-sights.co.uk. Follow our progress on facebook or pinterest. 

Guerilla knitting - Thames footpath

Some pics of the fascinating guerilla knitting on the Thames footpath between Greenwich and the O2, taken on Sunday morning (27/01/2013). There is some more info about it on thisislocallondon.co.uk. 

London Map Christmas edition

Exciting new arrival! London Map in fluorescent pink and warm gray; naming now also Primrose Hill, Belsize Park, South Hampstead, Chalk Farm, Maida Vale and Kilburn in the North West, Canonbury, Dalston, Whitechapel, Shadwell, Bethnal Green and Mile End in the East and Walworth, Camberwell, Bermondsey, New Cross and Brockley South of the River. Available on seagullhut.com

details
- limited colour edition of 100, fluorescent pink / gray- screen print, 56cm x 76 cm, signed and numbered