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Burlesque of NA’s obama test prints
OMG Posters! reports that Burlesque of NA will be selling a bunch of Obama test prints. They are all 20″ x 26″, and will be priced at $75-$300. They will go on sale tomorrow 30 October, at 2pm CST. Visit BurlesqueDesign.com to order.
Burlesque Design has decided to offer up a bunch of Barack Obama related test prints for sale online. In case you didn’t know, Burlesque did the printing for the entire Upper Playground Obama print campaign, almost 20 designs total, so there will be a lot of variety.
Has anyone else noticed an obsession with test prints in the poster art community? Its a cool concept, but it leaves me wondering how planned they are. At some point, does the artist stop layering ink onto a test print because it looks ‘finished’? If so, does it matter?
3 comments. Posted by tanner in craft, poster on 29 October 2008.
Fo Sho: Second Annual Fourth Year Poster Show at ASU
Fo Sho, the second annual exhibition of posters collected internationally and domestically by fourth year Visual Communication Design students at ASU, will be taking over the College of Design at Arizona State University this November. Additionally, select pieces will be sold via silent auction, to fundraise for a senior class thesis show occurring at the end of the Spring semester.
NOV17/ NOV28, 8a-5p : Poster Show
NOV17, MON 6-10p : Silent Auction + Opening Reception
College of Design Gallery 850 South Forest Mall / Tempe, Arizona
(Designer list following the jump.)
Visit the website, download the press release. Read more. →
No comments. Posted by tanner in exhibition, poster, silkscreen on 25 October 2008.
Michael Bierut: Barack Obama’s Fifty State Strategy
While I’m at it, here’s Michael Bierut’s Obama poster as well.
“The poster can be interpreted as both arrogant and silly, and I doubt the campaign is eager to promote either of those characteristics,” concedes Bierut. “Although I think it’s fun.” Evidently others do, too: a print of the poster raised $625 at a silent auction to benefit the AIGA at the organization’s annual Design Legends Gala last month.
I think my favorite might be Obhio Corackicut. Get the full scoop.
No comments. Posted by tanner in politics, poster on 7 October 2008.
Reason 3/30 to vote Obama by Milton Glaser
30 Reasons is a 30-day email and internet campaign to encourage people to vote for Barack Obama.
Our goal is simple: Use design to build a logical, multi-faceted argument for Obama and make it easy to share each reason with another person.
They have enlisted 30 graphic designers to create posters that represent a reason to vote for Obama. Today’s poster comes from Milton Glaser.
Full image after the jump Read more. →
1 comment. Posted by tanner in opinion, politics, poster, social change on 7 October 2008.
Embellished with Aaron Horkey’s blood (Detritus Art Print)
Aaron Horkey just keeps on giving. OMG Posters! is reporting a new art print for Detritus that is embellished in his own blood. No shit. Read more. →
No comments. Posted by tanner in art, craft, limited, poster, silkscreen on 6 October 2008.
According to POW, “Vhils walks the streets of his native Portugal and takes pictures of homeless people, he turns these into oversize silkscreens and prints the images onto thick art paper with a concoction of household bleaches and then dribbles ink over them.” Read more. →
1 comment. Posted by tanner in art, craft, experimentation, poster, silkscreen on 22 September 2008.
As the story goes, the MPAA complained about the theatrical poster for Kevin Smith’s new film on the left, so he responded with the poster on the right.
The poster on the right makes the movie seem much more curious. However, having never seen it, I may not be the best judge.
1 comment. Posted by tanner in movie, opinion, poster on 14 September 2008.
VIVID Gallery presents Wim Crouwel
VIVID Gallery recently announced a Wim Crouwel exhibition that runs between 11 October + 23 November 2008.
In case you’re in the dark, Wim Crouwel is a designer, artist, professor, museum director and typography extraordinaire who cofounded Total Design, the first multi-disciplinary design studio in the Netherlands. VIVID sums it up well when they explain, his works “are still fresh. [They contain] the original spirit on which a lot of contemporary design is based. Therefore his work is both inspiring and influential for present and future generations.” Read more. →
No comments. Posted by tanner in exhibition, poster, typography on 11 September 2008.
Update: Aaron Horkey’s “Detritus”
A couple of weeks ago, I mentioned a new art print Aaron Horkey was preparing to release. He’s leaked some photos of the print, and it surpasses all my expectations. Read more. →
No comments. Posted by tanner in art, craft, limited, poster on 1 September 2008.
(Click the crop above for detail.)
Aaron Horkey is a phenomenal illustrator and poster artist who grew up in rural Minnesota. His hand-drawn, obsessively detailed typography never ceases to amaze me. When we interviewed Aaron for issue one, he offered helpful advice about avoiding mistakes.
Don’t try a half cab flip right out the gate just because your high school crush happens to be watching - you will roll your ankle and end up in a shameful heap.
2 comments. Posted by Fill/Stroke in art, featured, poster, profile on 18 August 2008.
