The Off-Beat exhibition, which featured at The John Rylands Library in Manchester, showcased a range of examples of early self-publishing, from the ‘International Underground’ of 1960s artists, poets, philosophers, actors and musicians.
These ‘Little Magazines’, as they were known, were often printed in small low cost runs using a stencil-based forerunner of the modern photocopier known as a mimeograph.
The exhibition was commemorated by design studio Design LSC, with a series of printed materials celebrating the Off-Beat’s raw and retro appeal. Off Beat 62.
The papers used to create the reproduction prints, postcards and bookmarks were selected from James Cropper’s ‘Kendal Manilla’ collection in a range of weights and ‘heritage’ colours.
