The 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 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…
Read MoreAkua Line of Inks Rebranding Complete.
We can finally show you some of the process from the rebrand project for Speedball Art Products. Akua® inks are professional quality, water-based inks created by two professional printmakers who were motivated to create safe, fume free inks. Once the unique product line was purchased by Speedball, it needed a major upgrade from where the…
Read More10 Year Anniversary Goes to 10 States…and Worldwide.
This year marks our 10th year in business! As a small token of our appreciation, we sent out a bunch of little packets full of some goodies, including a free USB drive, some sweet new mini-business cards with 10 different background images (details taken from several design projects) and HUGE thank YOU to our clients.…
Read More“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…
Read MoreGreat Portrait Series “The Portrait Show”
Love this series by artist Mike Mitchell! Check it out, good art deserves attention. THE PORTRAIT SHOW
Read MoreIce Skating with a Fender Amp: New Poster Art for Trey Anastasio.
Here’s the latest poster art done for Phish’s Trey Anastasio. Having the location and time of year in mind, we thought a proper hat sporting gentlemen smoking a pipe whilst ice skating across a frozen pond with his Fender amp was appropriate. Six color edition run by the highly skilled Crosshair of Chicago, we ran…
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