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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Working it. (THIS IS A CONTEST TO WIN A FREE POSTER)

© Eckard Photographic 2012 In the last month or two we have been fortunate to be asked to create and design five different albums for musicians we highly respect and admire. We can’t wait to show you all the print and design details once we start to get these samples shipped to us and photograph…

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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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Appreciate the Process.

Bit of a re-post here: Highly recommend this video of the making of Gilian Welch’s latest release “The Harrow & The Harvest”. You really appreciate the work & process involved in making something unique and special. Let’s repeat that: You really appreciate the work & process involved in making something unique and special. Windmill presses, Ink,…

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Saul Bass Tells It Like It Is.

Short and (bitter)sweet this week: We lost an account that we were pitching… An account that we as a team (we partnered with another firm we love) really wanted and had a great feeling about. The project went elsewhere, and of course we feel like the decision was not in the best interest of the…

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Made in America: Our House Furniture Design

We recently finished a 126 page print catalog for Our House Designs, Inc., a furniture company based in the foothills of North Carolina. During the process of working on the project, which included on location photo shoots, interviews with employees and research, we really appreciated how special this type of company is these days: “Made…

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The Band of Heathens Print and Poster Design

From Austin, Texas comes The Band of Heathens. The guys contacted us to produce a tour poster design and screen print, as well as a digital version for use as a limited online release EP cover (see images below). Great print run again from our friends over at The Half & Half. We used the…

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Poster Art Created for Eric Church Event.

It was fun creating the imagery for Eric Church‘s event poster for his Savannah, GA show, seen here. It includes some scanned rough wood texture, custom typography work, silver metallic ink, and a SKULL! It’s probably the most ‘metal’ poster we’ve done, and it’s for a country music star…some call it “Outlaw Country.” Buy your print…

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