THE Inaugural Event
Tuesday 16th July 2024
The London Post Club began with a simple idea: bring retouchers and digital artists into the same room to share knowledge, make connections and build a sense of community. Post-production is a craft that often happens alone, behind a screen, and we wanted to change that.
Our first event drew 100 people for an evening of introductions, stories and plenty of conversation. Many people were meeting in person for the first time, often discovering how many contacts they shared. Mr Bingo’s talk had the whole room captivated and won him a lot of new fans, and the feedback afterwards was overwhelmingly positive. People left inspired, with new contacts and fresh ideas to take back to their work.
The Post Club is about keeping those conversations going and making space for craft, creativity and collaboration to thrive.
Speaker Mr Bingo
Nobody quite knew what to expect when Mr Bingo took the stage at our first London Post Club event, and that was part of the fun. A room full of retouchers, compositors, producers and studio heads got an hour of storytelling from an illustrator who has spent his career refusing to behave like one.
Bingo spent 13 years as a commercial illustrator, working for The New Yorker, The Guardian, TIME, Channel 4, The Mighty Boosh and The New York Times. His own project, Hate Mail, made him famous. For a few pounds, strangers could pay him to send a hand-drawn, gloriously rude postcard to someone of their choosing. It started as a joke and grew into a Penguin book and a hugely successful Kickstarter. For the last 10 years he has been a fully independent artist, making a living on his own terms.
The laughs started early and kept coming. The best part was hearing from someone in an adjacent industry who has taken a completely different route through the creative world. He built his career on his own taste and nerve, and he is brilliant at it. Plenty of people in the room recognised something of their own working lives in his story, whether in the client pressures, the pull of the brief, or the question of what you’d make if nobody was telling you what to do.
It was a reminder of why we started the Post Club. Hearing how another artist builds a career, and sharing a room and a laugh with people who know the work, is good for all of us.
See Mr Bingo’s work at mr.bingo.