Enter a plate
Open call closes 07 February. One sheet per person, printed, no digital-only work. Send the file and we will write to you about paper.
Postal entries: The Measure, Unit 4, Kirkstall Road, Leeds LS4 2AZ.
Edition 09
Sheet 420 mm
Columns 12
Plates hung 284
TheMeasure LeedsPoster Biennale09
Eleven weeks of printed work in twenty-one venues, one open call, and a press running six days a week. Everything here is set to the same twelve columns.
The brief
A poster has one job: to be read across a road. Everything the Biennale shows had to survive that test before it survived any other.
Ada Whitlock, director, Edition Nine
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Venues
Galleries, two railway arches, a swimming baths and the Central Library stairwell.
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Press days
Open days on the flatbed, Wednesdays and Saturdays. Bring paper, take a pull home.
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Entry fee
Underwritten by the city and by the ninety-one people on the standing order list.
Selected plates
Four of the two hundred and eighty-four. Choose a plate to lead the sheet and the rest reset around it.
Now leading 01 · Half Rate
Programme
Eleven weeks. Everything free unless the line says otherwise.
- 14 Mar Hanging day, Corn Exchange All 284 plates, one night only Open
- 21 Mar The flatbed runs Bring paper up to 500×700 Press
- 04 Apr Set to the column: a talk Ada Whitlock & Rowan Fenn £6
- 12 Apr Overprint workshop Two colours, twelve places £24
- 26 Apr Take-down and sale Every plate, priced at cost Open
Set in two faces
Archivo Narrow carries every heading, numeral and dimension label. It is narrow enough to set a long word to one column without breaking it.
Cardo holds the margins: the notes, the citations and anything that wants to sound like a person rather than a spec sheet.
- 100Display
- 42Section
- 18Reading
- 10Dimension