John Foster
John Foster is the principal and superintendent of the DC area studio Bad People Good Things, where he designs, writes, and jets around the world to talk to audiences of all sizes. His work has been everywhere, even resting a few pieces in the permanent collection of the Smithsonian.
He has written a big stack of books and articles, including New Masters of Poster Design, and New Masters of Poster Design, Volume 2, 1,000 Indie Posters, and Dirty Fingernails. He sits behind a giant desk for drawering, inkering, paintering, and computering. Below his feet lies the world's goofiest foxhound.
Columns:
Poster of the Week: Jason Munn
Designer: Jason Munn Client: Sasquatch! Music Festival Size: 18 x 24 inches Print process: Screenprint Number of inks: 1 color Jason Munn's work as The Small Stakes has long been one of my favorites.
Topics: Color, Handmade, Layouts, Profiles, Self-Promotion, Studio Secrets
Poster of the Week: Sleep Op
Designer: Corianton Hale Client: Three Dollar Bill Cinema Size: 11 x 17 inches Print process: Offset Number of inks: 4-color process Corianton Hale is a designer who always makes me smile.
Topics: Color, Layouts, Profiles, Self-Promotion, Studio Secrets, Type
Poster of the Week: Felix Pfaffli
Designer: Felix Pfäffli Client: Weltformat Poster Festival Size: 8.
Topics: Handmade, Layouts, Profiles, Self-Promotion
Poster of the Week: Anna Kovecses
Designer: Anna Kövecses Client: Anna Kövecses Size: 22 x 27 inches Print process: Giclee Number of inks: 4-color process Over the years, there has been a lot of grumbling about self-initiated projects in the design world.
Topics: Color, Handmade, Layouts, Profiles, Self-Promotion, Studio Secrets
Poster of the Week: Felix Pfaffli
Designer: Felix Pfäffli Client: Südpol Lucerne Size: 8.
Topics: Handmade, Layouts, Profiles, Self-Promotion, Type
Poster of the Week: Casey Deming
Designer: Casey Deming Client: Tuesday Series Size: 8.
Topics: Handmade, Layouts, Profiles, Self-Promotion, Type
Poster of the Week: Felix Pfaffli
Designer: Felix Pfäffli Client: Südpol Lucerne Size: 11.
Topics: Handmade, Layouts, Profiles, Self-Promotion, Type
Poster of the Week: Lure Design
Designer: Jeff Matz / Lure Design Client: Enzian Theater Size: 18 x 24 inches Print process: Screenprint Number of inks: 3 colors There are some designers that you tend to take for granted, for better or worse, and Jeff Matz and the fine folks at Lure fall into that category for me.
Topics: Handmade, Layouts, Profiles, Self-Promotion, Type
Poster of the Week: Felix Pfaffli
Designer: Felix Pfäffli, Mathis Pfäffli Client: Lucerne University of Design and Art Size: 8.
Topics: Color, Handmade, Professional Development, Profiles
Poster of the Week: Damien Tran
Designer: Damien Tran Client: Eine Welt Aus Hack Size: 20 x 27 inches Print process: Screenprint Number of inks: 3 colors We saw Damien Tran making his first appearance in this column late last year, but his recent streak of work has just been too good to hold back on showcasing another piece.
Topics: Handmade, Layouts, Profiles, Self-Promotion, Type
Poster Of The Week: Jeff Kleinsmith
Designer: Jeff Kleinsmith Client: Experience Music Project Museum, Seattle, WA Size: 18" x 24" Print process: Screen printing Number of inks: Four This is the very first Poster Of The Week and I couldn't be more excited.
Poster of the Week: Seripop
It has been an exciting time over here at the old Poster Of The Week office, as I just finished the manuscript for a new book; the upcoming "Paper and Ink Workshop.
Topics: Color, Handmade, Layouts, Profiles, Self-Promotion, Type
Poster of the Week: Austin Rolling Roadshow
We will return to our regularly scheduled single poster series next week, but I had to share some goodies with all of you that I was recently reacquainted with.
Topics: Color, Handmade, Layouts, Profiles, Self-Promotion, Type
Poster of the Week: Shinmura Design Office
Taking a slight detour this week, I was reminded of this incredible set of older posters from Tokyo's Shinmura Design Office, thanks to a post from past POTW recipient Bircan Ak.
Poster of the Week: Jennifer Sterling (part two)
Designer: Jennifer Sterling Photographer: Jurek Wajdowicz Client: Jennifer Sterling Design Size: 30 x 30 inches Printing Process: Offset Number of Inks: Four I wrote quite a bit on Jennifer Sterling's announcement of her summer workshops last year, and I was very taken by her interaction with the photography of Jurek Wajdowicz (branching out from his own stellar design work.
Poster of the Week: Ron Liberti (again!)
Designer: Ron Liberti Client: Cat's Cradle / Yo La Tengo Size: 12.
Topics: Color, Handmade, Layouts, Profiles, Self-Promotion, Type
Poster of the Week: Adrien Houillere
Designer: Adrien Houillère Client: La Rodia / Intermèdes Géographique Size: 450 x 650 mm Printing Process: Screenprint Number of Inks: One Printing out of the Atelier Superseñor, a silkscreen collective workspace shared by 10 designers and illustrators, Adrien Houillère set about creating a poster to promote two concerts, on one page, and with a single color.
Topics: Handmade, Layouts, Profiles, Self-Promotion
Poster of the Week: Graphic Advocacy
Breaking with tradition here (and format) but I wanted to take a moment to let everyone know about a wonderful poster exhibit curated by Elizabeth Resnick, that opened yesterday at the Stephen B.
Topics: Design Reference, Handmade, Layouts, Profiles, Self-Promotion, Type
Poster of the Week: Katja Schloz
Designer: Katja Schloz Client: Julia Heuer Textile and Costume Design Size: 420 x 594 mm Printing Process: Offset Number of Inks: 4-color process Creating a promotional poster for avant textile and costume designer, Julia Heuer, Katja Schloz immediately went to work in that conceptual fashion that only she can.
Topics: Fashion, Handmade, Layouts, Profiles, Self-Promotion, Studio Secrets, Type
Poster of the Week: Happy New Year!
Designer: Gary Taxali The New Year always brings about a barrage of posters and images celebrating the passage of time (and occassionally warning against the days to come.
Topics: Color, Handmade, Profiles, Self-Promotion, Type
Poster of the Week: Mark Gowing
Designer: Mark Gowing Client: Mark Gowing Design Size: 23.
Topics: Layouts, Profiles, Self-Promotion, Studio Secrets, Type
Poster of the Week: James Victore
Designer: James Victore Client: Mudac Museum Size: 34 x 50 inches Printing Process: Screenprint Number of Inks: Two "Everybody likes fingerpainting.
Topics: Handmade, Layouts, Profiles, Self-Promotion, Type
Poster of the Week: Drew Millward
Designer: Drew Millward Client: Birthdays/Mission of Burma Size: 18 x 21 inches Printing Process: Screenprint Number of Inks: Two One of the best concerts I have ever seen happened just last Thursday in a small club in London, packed with people shoulder to shoulder, as another hundred tried to get in from the outside, watching Mission of Burma rip through their full discography and absolutely burn the room to smithereens.
Topics: Handmade, Layouts, Profiles, Self-Promotion
Poster Of The Week: Damien Tran
Designer: Damien Tran Client: Loophole/Berlin Size: 35 x 50 cm Print process: Screenprint Number of inks: 3 colors One of my favorite things about keeping up with the poster scene is when you spot a breakthrough piece by a designer, the time when they are truly finding their own direction and pushing themselves to greater heights.
Poster of the Week: Opossom Series
There have been so many times when I wondered how different designers would approach the same problem.
Topics: Handmade, Layouts, Profiles, Self-Promotion
Poster of the Week: Modern Dog
Designer: Modern Dog Client: Greenwood Arts Council Size: 18 x 25 inches Printing Process: Screenprint Number of Inks: Three It is a time to give thanks, so I have dug deep into my poster collection for a piece that sums up so many emotions at the moment.
Topics: Handmade, Profiles, Self-Promotion, Studio Secrets
Poster of the Week: Jianping He
Designer: Jianping He Client: Four Zero Art Space Size: 33.
Topics: Color, Handmade, Profiles, Self-Promotion, Type
Poster of the Week: Sagmeister & Walsh
Designer: Sagmeister & Walsh Client: PUBLIC Bikes Size: 40 x 60 inches Printing Process: Offset Number of Inks: 4-color process By now, all of you are well aware of the "Why didn't I think of that?" standard put in place around here.
Topics: Handmade, Layouts, Profiles, Self-Promotion, Studio Secrets, Type
Poster of the Week: Nova
Designer: Nova Client: Jimmy Kimmel Live! Size: 19 x 21 inches Printing Process: Screenprint Number of Inks: Four (with 6 passes) This poster is balls to the wall cool on so many levels.
Topics: Handmade, Profiles, Self-Promotion, Studio Secrets
Poster of the Week: Homework
Designer: Homework (Joanna Górska + Jerzy Skakun) Client: Spectator Size: 68 x 98 Printing Process: Offset Number of Inks: 4-Color Process The dynamic duo of Joanna Górska and Jerzy Skakun at Homework top my list for the most amazing purveors of vector graphics, often whittling down the elements to their most basic shapes, while presenting some of the most sophisticated solutions the world has ever seen.
Topics: Profiles, Self-Promotion
Poster of the Week: Zwolf
Designer: Stefan Guzy, Björn Wiede Client: Condre Scr Size: 70 x 100 cm Printing Process: Screenprint Number of Inks: One After showcasing several posters from the recent stellar run by Berlin's Zwolf, the time has come to feature one last burst of brilliance before forcing them to wait at least another month before gracing these digital pages.
Topics: Handmade, Profiles, Self-Promotion, Type
Poster of the Week: Yann Legendre
Designer: Yann Legendre Client: The Steppenwolf Theater Size: 24 x 36 inches Printing: Offset Number of Inks: Two Yann Legendre has been one of my favorite poster designers for quite some time, not only for his immense talent and signature style, but for his continued advocacy for the form.
Topics: Color, Profiles, Self-Promotion
Poster of the Week: Justin Walsh
Designer: Justin Walsh Clients: Melvins Size: 18x24 inches Printing Process: Screenprint Number of Inks: Three Exploring the pressures that come with being part of a gigposter series last week, I failed to touch on the most intense of all invitations—working on The Melvins tour.
Topics: Handmade, Layouts, Profiles, Self-Promotion
Poster of the Week: Doe Eyed
Designer: Eric Nyffeler / Doe Eyed Client: Swans Size: 18 x 24 inches Printing Process: Screenprint Number of Inks: Three One of the toughest assignments in the gigposter world is being part of a tour series.
Topics: Color, Handmade, Layouts, Profiles, Self-Promotion, Type
Poster of the Week: Ryan Duggan
Designer: Ryan Duggan Client: Heavy Times Size: 12 x 24 inches Printing Process: Screenprint Number of Inks: Four The main deciding factor in what I truly enjoy in poster design is often whether or not it is something I think I could have come up with on my own.
Topics: Handmade, Layouts, Profiles, Self-Promotion
Poster of the Week: Zwolf
Designer: Stefan Guzy Client: dffb (German Film and Television Academy Berlin) Size: 841 x 1189 mm Printing Process: Screenprint Number of Inks: Two Many of you might be saying, "another Zwolf poster???" Then you lay eyes on this beauty and you say; "ANOTHER ZWOLF POSTER!!!!" It is true that I have been transfixed by their recent output, but let's all be honest and admit that these are quite simply too good to be limited to one showing for the studio a year.
Topics: Handmade, Layouts, Pattern & Palette, Profiles, Studio Secrets
Poster of the Week: Zwolf
Designer: Stefan Guzy, Björn Wiede, with Susanne Kriemann Client: Koninklijke Academie voor Schone Kunsten Size: 92 x 129 cm Printing Process: Screenprint Number of Inks: One Continuing the string of strong work for Berlin studio Zwölf (with much more to come), they dazzle with some old-fashioned one-color creativity.
Topics: Handmade, Layouts, Profiles, Self-Promotion, Type
Poster of the Week: Scott Campbell
Designer: Scott Campbell Client: Metric Size: 18 x 24 inches Printing Process: Screenprint Number of Inks: Four What do a group of radical young Italian architects from the '60s have to do with a Canadian indie rock band and one of the coolest designers in New Orleans, you ask? "Metric came to me looking for something reminiscent of Superstudio," designer Scott Campbell explains.
Topics: Design Reference, Profiles, Self-Promotion, Studio Secrets, Type
Poster of the Week: Zwolf
Designer: Stefan Guzy, Björn Wiede Client: Freie Universität Berlin Size: 23.
Topics: Layouts, Self-Promotion, Studio Secrets, Type
Poster of the Week: Joyce Hesselberth
Designer: Joyce Hesselberth Client: Northern Baltimore County Art Foundation Size: 12 x 18 inches Printing Process: Gicleé Number of Inks: Four-color Process Working with her partner in Spur Design (and husband) Dave Plunkert, designer/illustrator extraordinaire Joyce Hesselberth contemplated how to approach promoting the upcoming Gunpowder River Artfest.
Topics: Handmade, Self-Promotion, Type
Poster of the Week: Luke Drozd
Designer: Luke Drozd Client: Bestival / New Order Size: 420 x 594 cm Printing Process: Screenprint Number of Inks: Three When faced with the prospect of putting your work against one of the industry's icons, there are multiple options available: "When I was asked to design a poster for New Order, the first thing I became aware of was that I was basically being asked to create a print for a band that generally works with one of the world's most respected designers in Peter Saville," explains Luke Drozd.
Topics: Design Reference, Handmade, Pattern & Palette, Profiles, Self-Promotion
Poster of the Week: Jonathan Barnbrook
Designer: Jonathan Barnbrook Client: Self Size: 841 x 1189 mm Printing Process: Digital Number of Inks: 4-Color Process I have to confess that I was giddy like a schoolgirl upon hearing that Jonathan Barnbrook and Vaughan Oliver were assembling a collection of British design luminaries to create a gallery full of posters.
Topics: Design Reference, Layouts, Profiles, Self-Promotion, Type
Poster of the Week: Timothy O'Donnell
Designer: Timothy O'Donnell Client: Snowden Size: 11 x 17 inches Printing Process: Offset Number of Inks: 4-Color Process Timothy O'Donnell is a name I had seen often, hiding in the shadows of the credits of some of my favorite album sleeves.
Topics: Color, Layouts, Profiles, Self-Promotion, Type
Poster of the Week: Anthony Dihle
Designer: Anthony Dihle Client: Pleasant Pops Size: 16 x 26 inches Printing Process: Screenprint Number of Inks: Six When you combine like-minded creatives willing to go the extra mile, no matter what their business, the results can be sublime.
Topics: Color, Handmade, Layouts, Self-Promotion, Studio Secrets
Poster of the Week: L-ABLE and QB
Designer: L-ABLE and QB Client: Intramoenia Extrart - Eclettica Cultura Dell'arte Size: 70 x 100 cm Printing Process: Offset Number of Inks: Four-Color Process Some people always amaze me with their devotion to going the extra mile in seeing through a concept.
Topics: Handmade, Layouts, Profiles, Self-Promotion, Studio Secrets, Type
Poster Of The Week: James Flames
Designer: James Flames Client: Mogwai Size: 18 x 24 inches Printing Process: Screenprint Number of Inks: Four The average gigposter designer is so prolific these days that, at times, it can make it difficult to honor individual pieces within a greater body of work.
Topics: Color, Handmade, Layouts, Profiles, Self-Promotion, Type
Poster Of The Week: Dave Plunkert
Designer: Dave Plunkert / Spur Design Client: Theatre Project Size: 14 x 23 inches Printing Process: Offset Number of Inks: Three When I was in college, Dave Plunkert was the designer we all looked up to.
Topics: Handmade, Profiles, Self-Promotion
Poster Of The Week: Masoud Agahei
Designer: Masoud Agahei Client: Mehregan Charity Institute Size: 70 x 100 cm Printing Process: Offset Number of Inks: One There are two things I am a sucker for (well, three, if you count photos people post of their dogs on Instagram): hand done typography, and a curling moustache.
Topics: Handmade, Profiles, Self-Promotion, Type
Poster Of The Week: Zafer Lehimler
Designer: Zafer Lehimler Client: Marmara University, Faculty of Fine Arts, Graphic Department Size: 70 x 100 cm Printing Process: Digital Number of Inks: 4-color process Hearing about the Reggae Poster Design contest, I was skeptical about what would result.
Topics: Color, Layouts, Pattern & Palette, Self-Promotion
Poster Of The Week: The Little Friends of Printmaking
Designer: The Little Friends of Printmaking Client: Warner Bros.
Topics: Color, Handmade, Self-Promotion, Studio Secrets
Poster Of The Week: Andrew Vastagh
Designer: Andrew Vastagh / BOSS CONSTRUCTION Client: Mudhoney Size: 18 x 24 inches Printing Process: Silkscreen Number of Inks: Two The posters that make their way out of the BOSS CONSTRUCTION design oven over the years have always been piping hot, and to make them all the more delicious, designer Andrew Vastagh is as nice as they come, mixing his southern charm with a true appreciation and passion for design at all levels.
Topics: Handmade, Profiles, Studio Secrets, Type
Poster Of The Week: Jesse Tise
Designer: Jesse Tise Client: Self Size: 9 x 12 inches Printing Process: Digital / Silkscreen Number of Inks: 4-color process / Three One of the most exciting illustrators/artists I have come across is the enchanting mix of sophisticated whimsy in Jesse Tisse's work.
Topics: Color, Handmade, Profiles, Self-Promotion
Poster Of The Week: Noah Woods
Designer: Noah Woods Client: Chicago Tribune Size: 18 x 20 inches Printing Process: Offset Number of Inks: Four-Color Process One of the joys in my career has been having projects that allow for the opportunity to work with some of my favorite illustrators.
Topics: Color, Handmade, Pattern & Palette, Profiles, Self-Promotion, Type
Poster of The Week: Zeloot
Designer: Zeloot Client: Zeloot / Slowboy Records Size: 19 x 26 inches Printing Process: Screenprint Number of Inks: Five Some designers challenge your very perception as to what can be "design.
Topics: Color, Handmade, Pattern & Palette, Profiles, Self-Promotion
Dirty Work: The New New Masters
I am always careful to make sure that my writing here contains my specific viewpoint, but never veers into the overtly self promotional.
Topics: Design Reference, Handmade, Layouts, Profiles, Self-Promotion, Studio Secrets, Type
Poster Of The Week: Nate Duval
Designer: Nate Duval Client: Lotus Size: 18 x 24 inches Printing Process: Screenprint Number of Inks: Four Long admiring Nate Duval and his quirky color palettes and intersecting (and at times incongruous) images, to the point of staring at his vegetable/fauna/animal head series and his intricate owls for hours, enjoying every tiny detail, it was no surprise to me when he branched into projects that fully exploited his love of patterns and detail.
Topics: Color, Handmade, Pattern & Palette, Profiles, Self-Promotion
Poster Of The Week: Aesthetic Apparatus
Designer: Aesthetic Apparatus Client: Andrew Bird Size: 18 x 24 inches Printing Process: Screenprint Number of Inks: Three When they first formed, the duo of Michael Byzewski and Dan Ibarra donned the name Aesthetic Apparatus and quickly set about redefining the look of the gig-poster world.
Topics: Color, Handmade, Layouts, Profiles, Self-Promotion
Dirty Work: Makeup the Difference
This began as a simple Poster Of The Week column, as I was transfixed by so many posters created by the masterful duo of Nancy Skolos and Tom Wedell.
Topics: Design Reference, Handmade, Layouts, Profiles, Self-Promotion, Studio Secrets, Type
Poster Of The Week: Yee-Haw Industries
I know this column is supposed to feature a single poster each week, but sometimes current events dictate that the rules bend a little, and this is a case where I am certainly willing to make a whole new set of rules if need be.
Topics: Design Reference, Handmade, Layouts, Profiles, Self-Promotion, Studio Secrets, Type
Poster Of The Week: Post Typography
Designer: Post Typography Client: Post Typography Size: 24 x 24 x 18 inches (arrow is 18 inches long) Printing Process: Digital Number of Inks: One Every once in a while, it is good to be reminded that a simple idea will trump anything you might be able to throw at the wall style-wise (literally, in this case.
Topics: Design Reference, Handmade, Profiles, Self-Promotion, Studio Secrets
Poster Of The Week: Jennifer Sterling
Designer: Jennifer Sterling Photographer: Jurek Wajdowicz Client: Jennifer Sterling Design Size: 26 x 30 inches Printing Process: Offset Number of Inks: Six During the years when I would argue for days upon days about the merits of various designers (I have mellowed a touch since, just a touch), none was as polarizing a figure as Jennifer Sterling.
Topics: Design Reference, Layouts, Profiles, Self-Promotion, Type
Poster Of The Week: Dawid Ryski
Designer: Dawid Ryski Client: Go-Ahead Agency Size: 19.
Topics: Design Reference, Handmade, Layouts, Profiles, Self-Promotion
Poster Of The Week: Raymond Biesinger
Designer: Raymond Biesinger Client: The Manual Size: 16 x 22 inches Printing Process: Screenprint Number of Inks: 2 colors Raymond Biesinger has long been one of my favorite illustrators (his preferred title, as opposed to that of a designer) with his highly graphic imagery, throwing in just the right balance of modern and retro influences, to create a unique path that is all his own.
Topics: Design Reference, Handmade, Profiles, Self-Promotion
Poster Of The Week: Johnny Selman
Designer: Johnny Selman Client: Penn-Shank Memorial Foundation Size: 16 x 24 inches Printing Process: Screenprint Number of Inks: 3 colors "The Rooster Walk Music and Arts Festival is a scholarship fundraiser in Martinsville, VA.
Topics: Color, Layouts, Profiles, Self-Promotion
Poster Of The Week: Jim Mazza
Designer: Jim Mazza Client: Golden Voice Size: 19 x 25 inches Printing Process: Screenprinting Number of inks: 3 colors, including metallic silver There is a certain sub genre of the gigposter world where some of the finest illustrators around almost numb you to their talent through a constant barrage of stellar work.
Topics: Handmade, Pattern & Palette, Profiles, Self-Promotion, Type
Dirty Work: Your Version Is My Version
In their own special way, the world of design, and the world of music, are both terribly small.
Topics: Branding Identity, Color, Packaging, Profiles, Self-Promotion, Studio Secrets
Poster Of The Week: Andrew Lewis
Designer: Andrew Lewis Client: Self Size: 70 x 100 cm Printing Process: Digital Inks: 4-color process Some people are born to make posters, and some are born to wear luchador masks in every formal photo ever taken of them—British Columbia's top design maven, Andrew Lewis, was born to do both! One of my very favorite things about Andrew, and there are many, just check out my profile of him in the first volume of New Masters of Poster Design, is that the man will make a poster at the drop of a hat.
Topics: Handmade, Self-Promotion, Studio Secrets
Poster Of The Week: Casey Deming
Designer: Casey Deming Client: Tuesday Series Size: 7.
Topics: Handmade, Layouts, Profiles, Self-Promotion, Type
Poster Of The Week: Dale Edwin Murray
Designer: Dale Edwin Murray Client: V&A Museum Of Childhood Size: 48 x 72 inches Printing Process: Digital Number of Inks: 4-color process Bringing modern whimsy, to a retro-style execution, London's Dale Edwin Murray has often made me smile with both his illustrations, and choice of subject matter (check out his Hip Hop Head prints).
Poster Of The Week: Luba Lukova
Designer: Luba Lukova Client: Luba Lukova and Wright Gallery, Delta State University, Cleveland, MS Size: 27.
Poster Of The Week: Mehdi Saeedi
Designer: Mehdi Saeedi Client: Shams-E-Tabrizi and Maulana Foundation Size: 50 x 70 inches Printing Process: Offset Number of Inks: 4-color Process Mehdi Saeedi has long been one of my favorite poster designers, not just for his ability to simplify complex religious imagery and icons and translate them back into artistic joys, but even more so for his almost lyrical use of typography, making the culture of Iran, which can seem impenetrable at times, accessible and inviting.
Dirty Work: Bruce Is On The Loose
The one and only Bruce Springsteen recently unveiled the artwork for his upcoming album Wrecking Ball.
Poster Of The Week: Stereotype Design
Designer: Mike Joyce, Stereotype Design Client: Swissted Size: 35.
Topics: Branding Identity, Handmade, Layouts
Poster Of The Week: Bircan Ak
Designer: Bircan Ak Client: Self Size: 50 x 70 cm Printing Process: Monotype Number of Inks: 1 As I was viewing the slowly revealed images, stark in their black and white appearance, as well as their interpretation of the subject matter, I arrived at one of the most stunning pieces I had encountered in years.
Poster Of The Week: Francois Caspar
Designer: François Caspar Client: Self Size: 47.
Poster Of The Week: Sonnenzimmer
Designer: Sonnenzimmer (Nick Butcher and Nadine Nakanishi) Client: The Art Directors Club of Tulsa Size: 18 x 24-inches Print process: Screenprint Number of inks: 5 The close of 2011 saw two of my very favorite things coming together.
Poster Of The Week: Happy Holidays
It only makes sense to lead with this amazing and apt letterpress print from the fine folks at Hammerpress.
Poster Of The Week: Melinda Beck
Designer: Melinda Beck Client: Spur Size: 15 x 20-inches Print process: Screenprint Number of inks: 3 For an exhibition of their combined work at the Spur Gallery (run by a like-minded couple in illustrators Dave Plunkert and Joyce Hesselberth) entitled Before or Since, designer/illustrator Melinda Beck used her silhouette style to depict herself and husband Jordin Islip as a two-headed person, adapting their daughters Chloe and Simone into a hungry climbing bug and freshly hatched baby chick respectively.
Poster Of The Week: Homework
Designer: Joanna Górska + Jerzy Skakun (Homework) Client: SFP Size: 68 x 98 cm Print process: Offset Number of inks: 4-color process Homework's Joanna Górska and Jerzy Skakun have been producing some of the most brilliant posters the world has seen in the last few years.
Dirty Work: Do You Sell Puffer Fish?
The one and only Jesse LeDoux emerged as a major talent during his time working at Sub Pop Records (you likely have some of his sleeves in your record collection, assuming you have good taste in music, or design, or both) and then took to a little world travel, only to return as a force in both the illustration and whimsical fine art fields via his LeDouxville studio.
Topics: Environmental Design, Fashion, Handmade, Self-Promotion, Studio Secrets
Poster Of The Week: Ron Liberti
Designer: Ron Liberti Client: Nick Kulp / Far-Out Fangtooth Size: 12" x 17" Print process: Screenprint Number of inks: 2 colors (with split fountain) My admiration for Ron Liberti has stretched across many books, including a profile in the upcoming New Masters of Poster Design: Volume Two, so it is no surprise that he would turn up here.
Poster Of The Week: Zach Hobbs
Designer: Zach Hobbs Client: Amanda Rose Cagle / Mast-Head Productions Size: 12 x 18 in Print process: Digital Number of inks: 4-color process Zach Hobbs and the Young Monster crew have been experimenting with pulling apart faces and reassembling them for the past year, often with thrilling results (a lot of those can be seen in New Masters of Poster Design: Volume Two, mentioned below) but the poster that caught my eye recently was the one where Hobbs tore it apart, then left the pieces to survive on their own.
Dirty Work: Visual Pleasures
Creating a homage to another designer might just be the most difficult assignment ever given.
Dirty Work: Girl (Un)Interrupted
Frida Clements has been a quiet force in the poster scene for some time now.
Dirty Work: False Teeth In My Mailbox
The despair that greets me at the black metal shell outside my door has reached silent movie status.
Topics: Handmade, Layouts, Self-Promotion
Dirty Work: Weekend at Lanny's
It is back to school time for ages young and old (and another reminder that I will be forever hopeless at picking out a great "outfit" for a 10 year-old girl.
Topics: Design Reference, Handmade, Profiles, Self-Promotion, Type
Dirty Work: My Relationships with Monsters, Aliens (and Humans)
Standing before me is decades of musical genius in the form of a face bleating red from the strain of elongating the final syllable in the word "Chicago.
Topics: Handmade, Profiles, Self-Promotion
Dirty Work: Piles of Sunshine and One Lonely Goldfish
Andy Smith is funny.
Topics: Color, Design Reference, Handmade, Profiles, Self-Promotion, Type
Dirty Work: Five Questions That Will Change Your Life Forever
Stefan Bucher is one of my very favorite people.
Topics: Design Reference, Profiles
Dirty Work: Monsters Among Us
Our love affair has been torrid at times, with a flame too strong to ever properly extinguish.
Topic: Handmade
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