Big Blocks of Bollocks by Type Designer Seb Lester
Above and below are quotes from UK-based artist and type designer, Seb Lester:
“I have decided there are two kinds of art I like: really clever art and really stupid art. [This] is the latter. I may be wrong but I don’t think anyone in history has ever been stupid enough to design a set of monumental Roman capital letters and then commission a dignified and highly skilled craftsman to carve rude words into the finest Welsh slate using them.”
Although I enjoy more than two kinds of art, those genres do include Lester’s preferred “really clever” and “really stupid” art. (I also like words, and I’m an anglophile, so this works for me on multiple levels.)
The trio of sweary slate sculptures are strictly one-offs. They measure between 10 and 20 inches across and cost between £700 and £1500 here. Lester will ship, but he’ll probably secretly consider you an arse for buying them. The American version of that slogan (“You’re an asshole for buying this”) of course belongs to his compatriot in the stupid art genre, The Sucklord.
