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Hand Over Fist Press: publisher, book & graphic designer
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HAND OVER FIST PRESS<br />
HAND OVER<br />
FIST PRESS
Alan Rutherford BA(Hons)<br />
Formerly a director at Free Range Book Design &<br />
Production Ltd, and prior to that, manager of the<br />
production department at Thoemmes <strong>Press</strong> ... he<br />
has had over 25 years of experience in publishing<br />
... and now is open to offers.<br />
His degree is in Publishing and Visual Studies,<br />
gained at Oxford Polytechnic in 1987.<br />
Established traits and tastes separated by semicolons:<br />
book design; capable; graphic design;<br />
laugh-out-loud-mad; typography & typesetting;<br />
socialist; big heart; illustration; musico;<br />
photographer; book pre-press project management;<br />
can be a very nice man; publisher; writer; clicketyclick<br />
...<br />
As <strong>Hand</strong> <strong>Over</strong> <strong>Fist</strong> <strong>Press</strong> he published ‘Sheep in the<br />
Road’ an online ‘left-leaning’ magazine. He has<br />
also published several books and maintains a keen<br />
interest in graphic design.<br />
BLOG: occasional writings<br />
http://rodchenko.wordpress.com<br />
email: alanrutherford1@mac.com
DESIGN & ARTWORK<br />
Alan Rutherford<br />
2017<br />
Some examples of design and artwork, from<br />
early 1980s to 2017<br />
Book is available to view/read free at<br />
https://www.yumpu.com/en/document/view/58579580/alan-rutherford-design-and-artwork
HAND OVER<br />
FIST PRESS<br />
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SHEEP IN THE ROAD<br />
an online magazine<br />
BOOKS • DESIGN • POLITICS
Religious bigots and venture capitalists<br />
have long used an assumed God-given<br />
‘authority’ to recklessly and ruthlessly<br />
push through their agendas – in their<br />
attempt to both dominate and plunder<br />
our planet for their own short-term gain.<br />
A special planet, I would argue, that<br />
rather requires the so-called intelligent<br />
species to act as guardians of the<br />
earth’s precious sliver of atmosphere.<br />
An atmosphere so fragile that our<br />
robust pollution of it must surely be<br />
the height of incredible stupidity – this<br />
18km envelope of life supporting gases<br />
supports the only life that we know<br />
of in an infinite universe. Precariously<br />
clinging to the crust of this spinning<br />
molten ball an ape with half a brain<br />
might have developed the chaos we<br />
now find ourselves in – on the brink<br />
of catastrophe. The point then, is to<br />
engage the brain’s other half, cooperate<br />
in the planet’s maintenance and, in the<br />
words of someone or other, truly make<br />
this a ‘heaven on earth’.
HAND OVER FIST PRESS<br />
presents<br />
SHEEP<br />
IN THE ROAD<br />
Sheep in the Road, as a project, is/was an<br />
online magazine of writing, photography,<br />
cartoons and odd assemblages of ideas,<br />
rants and reviews ... eminating from a<br />
socialist and thoughtful core. The magazine<br />
existed from October 2015 until May 2017,<br />
thank you to all contributors who have left it<br />
‘sparkling in a sea of dross’ (anon.)
All issues available as a book-like pdf to view/read free at<br />
https://www.yumpu.com/en/document/view/58571047/a-sheep-in-the-road-3-24<br />
SHEEP IN THE ROAD<br />
Issue 13<br />
SHEEP IN THE ROAD<br />
Issue 12<br />
SHEEP IN THE ROAD<br />
Issue 11<br />
SHEEP IN THE ROAD<br />
Issue 10<br />
SHEEP IN THE ROAD<br />
Issue 9<br />
July-August 2016<br />
mid-June 2016<br />
June 2016<br />
May 2016<br />
April 2016<br />
SHEEP IN THE ROAD<br />
Issue 8<br />
SHEEP IN THE ROAD<br />
issue 7<br />
SHEEP IN THE ROAD<br />
issue 6<br />
SHEEP IN THE ROAD<br />
issue 5<br />
SHEEP IN THE ROAD<br />
issue 4<br />
March 2016<br />
February: 2016<br />
January: 2016<br />
Xmas: 2015<br />
December: 2015<br />
Contributors included: Brian Rutherford, Rudi Thoemmes, Joe Jenkins, Robert Arnott, Cam Rutherford,<br />
Steve Ashley, Lizzie Boyle, Chris Dillow, Chris Hoare, Joanna Rutherford, West Midland Hunt<br />
Saboteurs, Chris Bessant, Craig Atkinson, Martin Taylor, Martin Mitchell ...<br />
A pleasure to produce ... thank you for the experience.
HAND OVER<br />
FIST PRESS<br />
SOME BOOKS<br />
available to read/view at<br />
http://www.yumpu.com/user/AlfRodchenko<br />
1 9 8 6<br />
2 0 1 7<br />
SHEEP IN THE ROAD<br />
Vol. 1<br />
Alan Rutherford<br />
2014<br />
SHEEP IN THE ROAD<br />
Vol. 2<br />
Alan Rutherford<br />
2015<br />
SHEEP IN THE ROAD<br />
magazine, 3–24<br />
Alan Rutherford<br />
Oct 2015–May 2017<br />
KAPUTALA<br />
The Diary of<br />
Arthur Beagle & The<br />
East Africa Campaign,<br />
1916-1918<br />
Alan Rutherford<br />
Updated 2nd edn:<br />
2014<br />
IRISH GRAFFITI<br />
some murals in the<br />
North, 1986<br />
Alan Rutherford<br />
2014<br />
NICETO<br />
DE LARRINAGA<br />
a voyage, 1966<br />
Alan Rutherford<br />
2014
TORY OR LABOUR<br />
Capitalism Rules!<br />
Alan Rutherford<br />
1986 (out of print)<br />
The Last Papersale<br />
Paul Kaill &<br />
Alan Rutherford<br />
1986 (out of print)<br />
There is no solution to the<br />
Northern Ireland Problem:<br />
NORTHERN IRELAND IS<br />
THE PROBLEM<br />
Paul Kaill &<br />
Alan Rutherford<br />
1987 (out of print)<br />
KAPUTALA<br />
The Diary of Arthur Beagle<br />
& The East Africa<br />
Campaign, 1916-1918<br />
Alan Rutherford<br />
First edition, 2001<br />
ISBN: 9780954051709<br />
(out of print)<br />
H<br />
16:45<br />
Up Front, Inside<br />
& Out’back<br />
BENTHAM<br />
CAMEroN<br />
ruTHErford<br />
Alan Rutherford<br />
WRITING SOME WRONGS<br />
Alan Rutherford<br />
2007<br />
ISBN: 9780954051716<br />
16:45<br />
Upfront, Inside<br />
& Out’back<br />
Alan Rutherford<br />
2015<br />
BENTHAM<br />
Cameron Rutherford<br />
Photobook: Konvictus<br />
2015<br />
ARTWORK & DESIGN<br />
Alan Rutherford<br />
2015
The photographs in this book were taken<br />
on a very short trip to the North of Ireland<br />
and represent a snapshot of that time, 4–8<br />
November 1986. They were to convey my<br />
interest in the political murals on display there ...<br />
and came by way of my fascination for the street<br />
art of the Constructivists in early revolutionary<br />
Russia.<br />
Even though there seems to be a concensus that<br />
peace has arrived in the troubled communities<br />
of Northern Ireland, its veneer is as thin as the<br />
fact these territorial markers, these political<br />
statements, these magnificently diverse graffiti<br />
are still adorning unionist/protestant and<br />
nationalist/catholic neighbourhoods.<br />
IRISH GRAFFITI<br />
some murals in the<br />
North, 1986<br />
Photobook:<br />
Alan Rutherford<br />
2014<br />
Seldom considered respectable or ‘art’, graffiti<br />
cannot be ignored. Immediate, rebelious,<br />
public, confrontational, honest, malicious,<br />
political, vulgar, informative, territorial and<br />
in your face broadcasting of opinions, ideas<br />
... and usually anonymous. This has been<br />
a constant expression for the talented and<br />
talentless since human stirrings, welcome or<br />
unwelcome depending on your viewpoint.<br />
Graffiti comes from the same loadstone as ‘high<br />
art’, but because of its egalitarian and antiestablishment<br />
nature it subverts ‘high art’ and<br />
‘the artist’ modes of recognised celebrity and<br />
value by undermining and one-finguring ‘high<br />
art’s elitist and posturing nepotism.
A photobook of sorts ...<br />
Although the time line for my sea bound<br />
adventures was relatively short, from June<br />
1964 until July 1966, the experiences and<br />
observations of that period would take years<br />
to understand, process and relate to. So much<br />
happened so quickly that I lived those voyages in<br />
a bubble of ignorant naivety, not quite appreciating<br />
the amazing world I was experiencing and<br />
discovering … I was young and a dickhead!<br />
NICETO DE LARRINAGA<br />
a Voyage<br />
1966<br />
Photobook:<br />
Alan Rutherford<br />
2014<br />
Fortunately I acquired a good camera for my<br />
last trip and the photographs in this book<br />
are the best of a bunch. The camera, my first<br />
35mm, was a fixed lens Voigtlander Vitomatic,<br />
loaded with any film I could afford. A revelation,<br />
its power and magic of recording life I managed<br />
to underuse so criminally I would later live to rue<br />
… a novelty in my untutored hands, so loads<br />
of time lapse selfies … but a number of good<br />
photographs amongst the usual technical failures<br />
to at least challenge my memory banks.<br />
Both books are available to view/read free at<br />
https://www.yumpu.com/user/AlfRodchenko
H<br />
16:45<br />
Up Front, Inside<br />
& Out’back<br />
Alan Rutherford<br />
16:45<br />
Upfront, Inside &<br />
Out’back<br />
Photobook:<br />
Alan Rutherford<br />
2015<br />
Number 16, semi-detached, red brick, excouncil<br />
3 bedroom house was built mid 1960s.<br />
Since November 1970 we have lived in this<br />
house, that’s 45 years, twenty as council house<br />
tenants.<br />
This book is dedicated to the house that has<br />
stopped us from being homeless.<br />
It has been a house, a home, an abode, a<br />
nesting place, a place of folly, of dallience<br />
and introspection ... a sanctuary, a place of<br />
political agitation and peace ... an address, a<br />
residence ... a human necessity shamefully now<br />
considered a luxury!<br />
Through all the 45 years I have known it ... it<br />
has been, and is, a happy home. The images in<br />
this book are some memories as photographs:<br />
up front, inside and out’back.<br />
For the winds of luck and fortune that have<br />
placed us here, at this time, I thank you.<br />
Alan Rutherford,<br />
November 2015
BENTHAM<br />
The photographs in this book show the remains<br />
of the Bentham worksite. The site was used<br />
recently as the location for a short futuristic film,<br />
The Frontier. During filming Cameron took the<br />
photographs included in this book.<br />
CAMEroN<br />
ruTHErford<br />
The derelict site at Bentham was part of the<br />
various worksites of the Gloster Aircraft factory<br />
(1917 -1963), and it was at this Bentham site that<br />
the UK’s very first jet engined fighter aircraft, the<br />
Gloster Meteor, designed by Frank Whittle, was<br />
built (WWII).<br />
Other aircraft developed or built on this site<br />
include: Bristol Fighter (WWI); Gloster Gladiator;<br />
Hawker Hurricane and Hawker Typhoon (WWII);<br />
and the Gloster Javelin ... amongst an impressive<br />
roster of ‘Gloster’ flying machines.<br />
BENTHAM<br />
Cameron Rutherford<br />
Photobook:<br />
Konvictus 2015<br />
It is truly a shame that all war and<br />
armaments factories are not in this state ...<br />
Both books are available to view/read free at<br />
https://www.yumpu.com/user/AlfRodchenko
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Updated 2nd edn:<br />
KAPUTALA<br />
The Diary of Arthur Beagle<br />
& The East Africa Campaign,<br />
1916-1918<br />
Alan Rutherford<br />
2014<br />
This book is based on a diary kept by my<br />
grandfather and covers his involvement in<br />
the East Africa campaign. Drawing heavily from<br />
other sources it tells the story of wasted lives.<br />
Heroic tales of Lettow-Vorbeck and Smuts pale<br />
against a backdrop of tragedy, starvation,<br />
disease and death suffered by those, black and<br />
white, serving King and Kaiser.<br />
I hope all who read this account will find war<br />
abhorent and feel a great sympathy for those,<br />
black and white, forced, coerced or duped into<br />
the ranks, for whatever reason – be it<br />
straightforward intimidation or the sickly-sweet<br />
lure of drum-thumping jingoism. Cutting away<br />
all the bullshit, no matter how ‘gentlemanly’ the<br />
conduct of some officers, a lot of people died<br />
horrible deaths because the greed of competing<br />
capitalisms could not co-exist on the same<br />
planet.
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KAPUTALA<br />
The Diary of Arthur Beagle<br />
& The East Africa Campaign,<br />
1916-1918<br />
Alan Rutherford<br />
<strong>Hand</strong> <strong>Over</strong> <strong>Fist</strong> <strong>Press</strong>: 2001<br />
ISBN: 9780954051709<br />
!st edition<br />
out of print<br />
Both books are available to view/read free at<br />
https://www.yumpu.com/user/AlfRodchenko
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