Wilco’s “A Night at the Opera” poster design

By The Silent P | December 24, 2008 |

We just put the finishing touches on the latest poster design for Wilco, “A Night at the Opera”. The design was done for the band’s Baltimore date, so there are several references to the venue and the city. Examples include signatures of Edgar Allen Poe and Babe Ruth, both originally from Baltimore. Lots of halftone…

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STAND BAND design work

By The Silent P | December 10, 2008 |

We just finished working on two new poster designs with the management for the band Stand. These lads are originally from Dublin, Ireland and make their home in NYC now. Very talented group of blokes, check them out here: http://www.standland.com/ “Imagine the writing of Neil Finn mixed with the wide-open spaces of Pink Floyd”- Irish…

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Wilco Poster Design Gallery now online

By The Silent P | November 26, 2008 |

The fine folks over at Wilco HQ just added a very cool feature to the band’s ever expanding website: A brand new POSTER DESIGN GALLERY! Click here to check out over 100 original poster designs from a very wide variety of artists and designers. WILCO POSTER GALLERY We’re fortunate enough to have had the privilege…

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New Stars of the Lid Poster design

By The Silent P | November 21, 2008 |

What a great band name, right? These guys play some pretty unique music, some describe it as “drone-based ambient music”. According to one of the founding members, the band’s name refers to “your own personal cinema, located between your eye and eyelid”, suggesting the colors and patterns one can see with closed eyes. We had…

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New Minus The Bear Poster design

By The Silent P | November 14, 2008 |

We just finished this new poster design/print for the band Minus the Bear. The design includes a large cropped halftone photo of my sister-in-law, used with her very kind permission. The silver was run as a metallic and looks great in person (thanks Nick at The Half and Half!). Black ink overprints nicely. Paper is…

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Get a Clue Design part of Toledo Poster show

By The Silent P | October 31, 2008 |

The fine folks at Madhouse graphic design in Toledo, OH invited us to be part of their latest poster design exhibit “Rock Paper Scissors”. The gallery space is located in downtown on the corner of Jackson Street and 13th. Here’s a quote from the gallery page online: “Rock show and gig posters have communicated the…

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Poster designed for The Black Keys

By The Silent P | October 8, 2008 |

We just finished work on a new poster design for the band The Black Keys.These fellow Ohio boys are super talented, make sure to hear them live or otherwise. The new album “Attack and Release” with producer Danger Mouse (Gnarls Barkley) has been getting very positive reviews from folks like Billboard to The New York…

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Original button designs commisioned!

By The Silent P | September 30, 2008 |

The fine folks at Olio artists & workers cooperative asked Get a Clue Design to submit several button designs to help support the “Live!stock pin & poster show” in beautiful Victoria, B.C. Live!Stock is a 3 days posters, buttons, crafts, textiles, artists and rock art exhibition. Here’s some shots from the event and close-ups of…

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Photo’s from “GIG!” poster design show

By The Silent P | September 10, 2008 |

We are adding just a few pix taken by Chuck Keppler from the opening of the GIG! poster design show in downtown Charleston, SC. Enjoy. Get a Clue Design’s posters are in these shots, can you find ’em?Hint: Galactic, Wilco and The Black Keys.

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