Illustration
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…
Read MoreMassimo Vignelli, Design Hero.
Our homage to one of the greats in the craft of graphic design…Massimo Vignelli died today at 83. “Inspiration Never Dies” is our nod, the rest are quotes of Mr. Vignelli’s. // Click on each image to enlarge // @Pfahlert Creative Labs, 2014
Read MorePolicyMic features Two Poster Designs
A recent article in the Arts & Entertainment section of PolicyMic, a popular news and lifestyle blog out of NYC, talked about poster art and design in the music world. Two Silent P posters are featured, one for Mike Gordon, the other for The Autumn Defense. Read the article: “15 Beautiful Indie Concert Posters That…
Read MoreSpecial Edition “Vinyl is Killing the MP3” T-shirt
To celebrate Record Store Day coming up on April 19th, 2014, we will be releasing one special edition version of the “Vinyl is Killing the MP3” t-shirt theme. The original can be seen here. The new one will be one of these, you’ll just have to wait to see which one…or which two? Here’s a…
Read MoreThe Making of a Poster (Process Photos)
Behind-the-scenes peeks of any creative endeavor, be it a movie, a painting, or in this case, a poster design, are always kinda cool to get a glimpse of…hopefully you’ll agree, and if not, there’s endless shots of cats on the Internet waiting just for you…and away we go! * EDIT: Band management informed us that…
Read MoreRobert Rauschenberg + The Talking Heads’ Speaking in Tongues
For a fan of unique music and great art, it doesn’t get much better than this: David Byrne asked fellow NYC artists Robert Rauschenberg (one of our personal faves) to design his band’s release “Speaking In Tongues” album (one of our personal faves too!). “I approached Bob Rauschenberg in the mid-’80s to design a cover…I…
Read MoreUnpublished.
There are times during the course of a creative project where you end up with lots of unpublished and unused designs that sadly never see the light of day. Quite some time ago we were approached by a client to produce some album art for a recording artist that was on their roster. After getting…
Read MoreThe Making of an Album Cover
We wanted to share with you some of the creative process and behind-the-scenes work that goes into creating an album cover design, this one was for one our faves, Farewell Milwaukee, who just released “Can’t Please You, Can’t Please Me (get it here!). The band had a fairly tight concept for this one, so we…
Read MoreLong 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…
Read MorePerhaps 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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