Tools of the Trade…

Here’s a little preview from a photo shoot we did with Darin Back recently. Darin has shot a lot of photos of a lot of things, many of which are people, like Paul Westerburg (best known as the lead singer, guitarist and songwriter in The Replacements), Charlie Mars,  Mark Olson (one of the founding members…

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Perhaps the Largest Art Gallery

The famously anonymous British graffiti artist, Banksy, caused quite a sensation this October by using NYC itself as a canvas, daily creating pop-up street art in various locations around the boroughs with zealous fans and curious onlookers practically stampeding to catch a glimpse of, photograph, and yes actually deface, the latest work. His site www.banksyny.com…

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“All Access” Poster Show at the Hickory Museum of Art

We’d like to thank all of the fine folks that came out to see the recent poster show at the Hickory Museum of Art. Here’s some photo’s captured from the opening reception, enjoy the gallery!  The show runs through January 5th and is open to the public. *EDIT: Thanks to Yes The Raven for providing some…

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Poster Design for The National – Fillmore Performance

The National is a pretty impressive band. We were excited to finally see them live, and since we like The Fillmore in Charlotte, we opted to do a special edition ‘venue-only’ (and gift to the band) edition of posters to commemorate the special event. These were printed by Ink Floyd on super nice black stock,…

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Our Wilco Calendar Design for 2013.

Wilco recently tapped us to help them design this year’s calendar. There were several attempts to create a photo mosaic out of every single poster from last year, but it never seemed to gel to a point where everything worked well together…maybe next year. The style that won out features a 17″ x 28″ hanging…

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Messy is Good.

We were inspired to revisit making art with a xerox machine and a scanner. Here’s how you can too: Step 1. Print typography (or image) in black. Step 2. Open copy machine cover (or scanner bed) and as the scanner or copy machine is in the process of making the copy, move your print all…

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Lots of Work, Little of Blog.

The Silent P has been… a bit TOO silent. The reason for the lack of updates is a great one though: WE ARE BUSIER THAN A ONE-ARMED MAN AT A HIGH FIVING CONTEST (clap sounds). So, to bring you up to speed (of sorts), here’s a partial list of some of the projects that have…

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Art Print Concept // Paul Rand Quote

Kinda love this quote from the well known graphic designer Paul Rand. So much so that I think it will make a great art print…what do you think? You can read our entry about the now infamous story here. Here’s what we’re thinking: Two color print: White ink // Silver Metallic ink on French Paper…

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