Designs published in Wilco’s poster book

Wilco recently released “Beyond The Fleeting Moment: Wilco Concert Posters” a 224-page hardcover poster book featuring more than 200 Wilco concert posters, reprinted on heavyweight paper and richly reproduced to accurately reflect each poster’s original detail. Included are posters from more than 50 designers plus rare live photographs by Zoran Orlic. Beyond The Fleeting Moment…

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Long Lost Wilco Towel from Japan

Finally saw the special towel print we did for Wilco’s Japan tour, hard item to find! Japanese have the custom of carrying your own personal hand towel everywhere you go. It’s considered good manners to have your hand towel when you’re out. Read more about this interesting trend here, and check out the Wilco towel…

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Posters in NBC’s Upcoming Medical Drama

Just look at all those sexy doctors! We got a email recently asking for approval to use a poster of ours in an upcoming medical drama show on NBC called “The Night Shift”. The show is set in New Mexico (worked well for Breaking Bad!), apparently one of the doctors in the show is a Wilco…

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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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Wilco in Desert Palms, California.

We are always happy to work with clients that “GET IT”. And by “get it”, we mean they get why a client allows a designer/artist to pretty much do what they do best: CREATE/DESIGN without a lot of static from the client. Here’s what was produced from a healthy client relationship as described…We can all…

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Before and After with Wilco.

It’s interesting to see the rough thumbnails that eventually become actual printed merchandise. BEFORE: Here’s our pencil (very) rough thumbnail concept for Wilco‘s recent show poster at Big Sky Brewery in Montana: AFTER:…and here’s the finished art/design: Some background on the locale: Obvious ones, like Montana being known for “Big Skies”, we knew the sky…

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Posters Featured in Wilco’s New iPad Book.

Wilco just released a new free e-book called The Incredible Shrinking Tour of Chicago that includes images of our poster series we created along with D.R. Sapperstein. It’s available exclusively through the iBookstore for iPad via the band’s own dBpm Records. The images of our poster series can be expanded for more detailed viewing. As you’d…

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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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Coffee Never Smelled, Tasted or Looked So Good.

We were recently asked to design Wilco’s latest coffee mugs. It was fun creating the two sided design, which highlights two of Wilco’s songs on the new album The Whole Love. On one side we have “One Sunday Morning”, the other has “Dawned On Me” on the record art created. Check out the images below to see…

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