I’ve been busy lately, and that includes posters. A friend who is a music publicist put me in touch with Brad Cole, who will be playing a residency at Montrose Saloon next month and I made him some posters and social media graphics: I’ve made a lot of posters, but I haven’t really worked like […]
This morning I listened to the Move Your DNA podcast, and the guest talked about the idea of the Wall of Grief: when you think about all of the things that need to be fixed – referring to the state of the world, but I’m not sure if that’s always the context – and become […]
I got so much done tonight after my first office day in who can say how long. I made a poster, I did laundry, I scooped two cat boxes, and I put in a big grocery delivery order for tomorrow (before my free trial of the delivery service expires). What I did not do is […]
It’s not a good idea to look at LinkedIn first thing in the morning, but that’s what I did. My feed is a mix of friends from art school getting excited over the latest animation techniques, various companies I started following when I was trying to get jobs from them, and recruiters offering advice to […]
Today’s source is Little Friends of Printmaking, from Madison Wisconsin. Their work, at least in the book tends to be cartoonish in an almost deliberately grotesque kind of way – more tongues and nostrils than I tend to like in a character anyway. They use busy layouts and unusual, desaturated color palettes. Two things they’re […]
In my earlier post today, I laid out my plan to make a scratchboard drawing on the computer. It actually turned out better than I was expecting. My first thought was to work in Illustrator and make tapering strokes that would look like chisel strokes. Which I thought I could then bring it into After […]
I’m back on track. Promise. The eleventh (Fons Hickmann, from Berlin) and twelfth (Jewboy Corporation, from Tel Aviv) artists in the book had a few things in common, so I did one picture to cover both. One of the Fons Hickmann posters had jumped out at me when I first flipped through the book because […]
The work of Jianping He is impressive to the point it was hard to find anything to take away from it. It’s very dreamy and “high art” and there were examples where he gave text a painterly look. From that, I came up with the idea of specifically trying to make text look painted. In […]
The artist: Pedram Harby, Tehran, Iran Pedram Harby‘s work is very minimal. He’s inspired by song lyrics and works a lot with Persian typography, often using lines of type as part of the drawing. As a nod to his Islamic heritage, he often blurs representative images. My Interpretation: cats I take a lot of pictures […]
Today’s artist is Hammerpress in Kansas City, MO. It’s an aesthetic I really enjoy. Their posters are busy, in a grandma’s attic kind of way. Lot’s of collage, overlap, interesting spacing. Much more rectilinear and white than some of the previous designs. This might have to do with the fact that they work in letterpress. […]