The more observant amongst you will have noticed an odd little logo (which differs slightly each time) on the credits page of Push and on other things that I’ve produced, which says ‘Plaitford Productions’.
Plaitford is the tiny village in the south of England where I grew up.
Here, in case you’re interested, is a list of Plaitford Productions to date.
-Richard Hart
(NB: I also did shirt designs for Element, NC Clothing, Carhartt WIP and Document magazine, some of which featured the PP logo but didn't get a catalogue number.)
PP#1- ‘Telephone Pad’ zine
1999, edition of 100. Features drawings.
This zine was made for an art show which I curated in San Francisco. All drawings, all skaters; it featured Big Foot, Chris Duncan, Jeremy Fish, Israel Forbes, Richard Hart, Jesse Hotchkiss, Brian Lotti, Lucian Moon and Mat O’Brien. The zine has one drawing by each person.
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PP#2- ‘And There I Was…’ zine
1999, edition of 80. Features drawings.
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PP#3- ‘While You Were Out (Soul Asylum)’ zine
2000, edition of 73. Features drawings.
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PP#4- ‘Celebrated Summery’ zine
2002, edition of… oh, 40-ish I think. Features drawings and photos.
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PP#5- ‘*Asterisk’ T-shirt
Asterisk shirt (not, contrary to one cop, depicting a marijuana leaf) tone-on-tone baby-blue shirt.
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PP#6- ’50/9′ zine and..
PP#7- ’50/9′ short film (on Super-8mm)
…Which remains unfinished. But could be, and perhaps will be, one day. Features Tony Manfre. PP#6 is the zine-of-the-film.
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PP#8- ‘Everything Went Black -and White’ zine
2004. Says it is an edition of 100, but the photocopies looked so awful when they appeared that I destroyed them all. I then made a ‘first new batch’ of about a dozen and, er.. never made any more.
Features drawings and photos; mostly by me, but also some artwork by Simon Evans and some photographs by Dave Schubert.
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PP#9- ‘Withnail’ shirt
Emblazened with just one of the myriad immortal lines from the film ‘Withnail & I’…
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PP#10- ‘Bodies’ shirt
‘Bodies’ shirt.
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PP#11- ‘Things Which Nag II’ zine
2005, edition of 100 I think; zine (and poster). Drawings. Stealthily made in the basement of Kingpin on the in-house photocopier (cheers NN!).
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PP#12- ‘Things Which Nag III’ zine
2007, zine with sticker, ed. of 34. Drawings.
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PP#13- fake 7″ cover
200?, ed. of 1. Produced for Sonny Smith’s ‘100 Records’ artshow which, as the name implies, featured 100 record covers for fictional bands, with real music made by Sonny and friends. In keeping with the theme, I gave mine the catalogue number of PP#13; even though there is only 1 in existence. And I’m not sure where, either..
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PP#14- website
WWWas the Plaitford Productions website. I think I had been thinking about Factory Records too much, and their habit of giving catalogue numbers to absolutely everything (including an ex-employee’s coffin).
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PP#15- Magenta Guest Artist T-shirt
Shirt accompanied board release (see below). Graphic reads ‘Be the King of the Castle’; a reference to one of the songs in the album mentioned.
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PP#16- Magenta Guest Artist Board
2014. This limited-edition board was released by Magenta.
“The text on the board is from an album title. There was a record I listened to a lot when I was at school, by Scottish Indie band the Soup Dragons. It’s called ‘This is our Art; Useless, Boring, Impotent, Elitist and Very, Very Beautiful’. I always appreciated the humour in that title and I happened to pull that record out around the time I did the board. It struck me that it was also a pretty good description of skating, at least from the point of view of an outsider- essentially useless, incomprehensible to the point of tedium, without any real power, definitely elitist and ‘cool’. I acknowledge all that, but of course our ‘art’ can also, as we know, be beautiful…”
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PP#17- The Howard House Video ‘A Decade Late’
(9.5 minutes)
The Howard House Video
Shot mid 2003- early 2004; edited 2014. Mostly (badly) filmed by Richard Hart and edited by RH with the assistance of Harry Gregory.
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PP#18- Howard House zine
2014, ed. of 150, of which 50 copies came with HH DVD.
Assembled and printed to coincide with the release of the video, the zine featured photos which I shot between 1998-2004 whilst living at the Howard House in San Francisco. It was a Live/ PP co-production, hand-printed in Paris.
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PP#19- Krooked zine
2015, ed. of 333.
This zine came with my Krooked Guest Board (see below) and featured photographs of the team, shot during a trip to New York (the video of which you can see here). Cover art by MG.
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PP#20- Richard Hart Krooked ‘Gest’ Board
2015, ed. of 333.
The Krkd guest board featured photographs of Karma Tsocheff, Kenny Reed, Fred Montagne, Bobby Puleo and Darth Vader. The bottom photo is of Plaitford.
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PP#21- Push Periodical issue 1
2015, ed. of 700. Stickered cover.
(All the double P’s are a coincidence.)
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PP#22- Push Periodical issue 2
2016, ed. of 1000. First 100 copies came with a ‘Threads: Headcleaner’ DVD.
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PP#23- SOS T-shirt
2016, ed. of ?. ‘Style Over Stunts’, the first quote in PP1’s contents page.
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PP#24- Push Periodical X Northern Co board
2016, ed. of 200; 50 each of three ‘normal’ shapes and one small cruiser shape.
‘Today’s News is Tomorrow’s Fish & Chip Paper’; a cautionary British saying.
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PP#25- Postcard
2016, ed. of 500. This card featured a photo of Matt Town, Jesse Narvaez and Ryan Barlow, along with a quote from Matt Field's interview. 200 were included with the Northern boards, the others given away with mags.
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PP#26- Push Periodical issue 3
2016, ed. of 1000. Most copies came with a Magenta ‘Just Cruise’ DVD.
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PP#27- Push Periodical issue 4
2016, ed. of 1000.
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PP#28- Push/Sprinkles ‘Partial World Tour’ T-shirt and Tea Towel
2016, a dozen shirts were made and given to participants and friends during the PWT. About ten tea-towels were later screened, also as presents and with a few being sold on the site.
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PP#29- Push Periodical issue 5
2016, ed. of 1000.
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PP#30- Push/Sprinkles ‘Partial World Tour’ video
Watch here: PWTI
2016, 8min. Filmed by Zach Chamberlin and edited by ZC and RH.
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PP#31- Push Periodical issue 6
2017, ed. of 1000.
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PP#32- ‘Ben Over Leo' T-shirt
2017, ed. of ?. Produced by Kukunochi in Japan, the shirt was available in white and grey.
(Still available in Japan?)
The photograph originally appeared in 43 Magazine.
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PP#33- ‘Scraps From Limbo’ zine
2017, ed. of 50. Zine produced for the release of the BOL shirt in Tokyo. Photos/ drawings/ photocopy manipulations.
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PP#34- Push Periodical issue 7
2017, ed. of 1000. The first magazine to be printed in Europe (so a slightly different size/shape), and the first one to be free.
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PP#35- ‘Disassemble/Reassemble’ zine
2017, ed. of 70. Produced to be given away at the premiere of the PWTII video, in Croatia at the Vladimir Film Festival. Zine disassembles to make two large photographs (which later also appear in PP8).
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PP#36- ‘Partial Word Tour II’ video
Watch here: PWTII
2017, 10 min. Filmed and edited by Zach Chamberlin.
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PP#37- Push Periodical issue 8
2017, ed. of 1500.
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PP#38- Push Periodical issue 9
Winter 2018, ed. of 1500, embossed cover.
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PP#39- Jake PP1 shirt
2018, black shirt with PP1 cover.
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PP#40- Push Periodical issue 10
Spring 2018, ed. of 2000.
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PP#41- On Holiday by Mistake zine
2018, ed. of 100.
Photographs and text, old and new, by Richard Hart. Given out at the OHBM photo shows in Paris and Berlin (April '18). Produced by Carhartt WIP.
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PP#42- On Holiday by Mistake shirt
Limited edition. As above.
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PP#43- Traffic ‘Hands’ deck
2018, edition of 50. Photograph of Luke Malaney by Richard Hart.
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PP#44- ‘From the Vaults: Traffic’ zine
2018, ed. of 160.
Features mostly unseen photos of Traffic alumni spanning 2000-2018: Ricky Oyola, Rich Adler, Jack Sabback, Kevin Coakley, Brendan Carroll, Damian Smith, Hiroki Muraoka, Pat Stiener, Joe Yates, Bobby Puleo and Luke Malaney.
160 copies made; 100 (red) come with the boards, 60 (green) sold separately.
A5, 32 pages, colour and B/W. Hand numbered.
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PP#45- Traffic ‘Out in the Street’ deck
2018, ed. of 50. Drawings by Richard Hart.
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PP#46- Push Periodical Issue 11
Summer 2018, ed. of 2500.
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PP#47- Traffic OITS Shirt
T-shirt/LST/Sweatshirt of the graphic from the ‘Out in the Street’ board.
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PP#48- Push Periodical Issue 12
Autumn 2018, ed. of 3000.
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PP#49- Push Periodical Issue 13
Winter/Spring 2019.
The ‘No Skateboarding’ 2018 photo annual..
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PP#50- Push Periodical Issue 14
Summer 2019
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PP#51- Push Periodical Issue 15
Autumn 2019.
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PP#52- F-Stop T-shirt
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PP#53- Skate Ratz T-shirt
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PP#54- Push Periodical Issue 16
Winter 2019-20
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PP#55- Push Periodical Issue 17
Spring 2020, the Interview Issue..
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PP#56 FAITH/VOID Zine
Double-sided zine, Sept 2020, ed. of 40 copies.
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PP#57-62 Northern Co. ‘Lockdown Escapism’ Series
A series of board graphics.
(57-61 are boards, 62 is the accompanying T-shirt)
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PP#63- Sanity Bike Ride Haiku zine
Haiku poems, photos, drawings.
Produced during lockdown,
30 copies, April 2020.
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PP#64- PP18
Autumn 2020
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PP#65- Nothern Co. Soy Panday Guest Board
Northern Co guest board for Soy Panday, graphics by Richard Hart.
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PP#66- FatBros T-shirt
T-shirt designed for Fat Bros shop in Nakano, Tokyo.
Photo of Alex Davis (shaka) and security.
Released July 2020.
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PP#67- ‘5’ edit
5 years of Push Periodical (2015-20). A compilation edit by Zach Chamberlin with photos by Richard Hart.
Released 31 Dec 2020.
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PP#68- TOM TOM edit
Short edit by Richard Hart featuring the Tom Knoxes.
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PP#69 Board TBA
Plaza
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PP#70-73- LINO-FIRE board series
Series of board graphics for Traffic Skateboards. All art from hand-cut lino prints.
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PP#74- LINO-FIRE Video
Short Instagram video of lino process..
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PP#75- Balloon Zine
Photographs, Feb ‘20- July ‘21. Edition of 29.
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PP#76/77- Super L8
Short film made from mid/late ‘90s SF Super-8.
(PP77 zine TBA)
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PP#78- Tincan Skatelore T-Shirt
Collab T-shirt featuring Gonz photo from PP1
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PP#79- PP19
Spring/Summer 2022
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