Archive for the ‘poster’ Category

PechaKucha Night

Thursday, January 28th, 2010

I will be presenting on letterpress, design, posters, etc. for Eugene’s second PechaKucha Night. What is that, you say? From the website:

PechaKucha Night was devised in Tokyo in February 2003 as an event for young designers to meet, network, and show their work in public.
It has turned into a massive celebration, with events happening in hundreds of cities around the world, inspiring creatives worldwide. Drawing its name from the Japanese term for the sound of “chit chat”, it rests on a presentation format that is based on a simple idea: 20 images x 20 seconds. It’s a format that makes presentations concise, and keeps things moving at a rapid pace.

Interested? Come to Davis’ Restaurant (Broadway & Olive, Eugene) February 4, 2010, 7 PM, small donation.

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Friday, December 11th, 2009

I designed a poster this week for a new year’s eve concert. Which just happens to feature the awesome band I play in, Samba Já. Don’t forget about the Beat Crunchers. Like, a totally rad dance party on, like, new year’s eve, y’all.

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That’s Carmen Miranda in the background. Speaking of which, please view this fabulous Chiquita banana advertisement from the 1940s.

Poster ideas

Wednesday, November 4th, 2009

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This might be our biggest, bestest gig on our silly tour. The Mile High Club at Busby’s East in Los Angeles. With Dayplayer, who shares our drummer, Matt.

Are YOU going to be there?

update

Friday, April 24th, 2009

short update:

all my Hatch Show Print posters are up on my WEBSITE.

More to come…

so much to say

Sunday, April 19th, 2009

Alright kids, my work here is done. And now what do I do? I am stuck in a cafe because it is pouring down rain. A man next to me says to two nice women, “I will cut your ear off.” For the next week I will eat a lot and ride my bike.

Friday I attended the world premiere of the documentary film, William Shatner’s Gonzo Ballet, which is about the making of a ballet set to Shatner’s record, Has Been. This was at the Nashville Film Festival, to which I received free passes. The movie was just OK, but Mr. Shatner was there, along with Ben Folds and a slew of other celebrities. Very strange.

Yesterday, I was in Chattanooga, TN, for an Avett Brothers concert. Very good, very good. However, before the show, Kate and I went to a pizza place to get some slices. We waited in line for half an hour. Then waited at our table for 45 minutes to get three slices of pizza. So, we decided to slip vodka into our water glasses.

Apparently, Kate and I are now models. See for yourself HERE. Story goes: we were out on the artwalk in March, dressed up very nice, and a photographer, Sheri O’Neal, approached us asking if she could photograph us. So it goes. (there are three photos up on her site there. they were all shot in my house)

Speaking of photos: go HERE for a large collection of photos of Hatch and such.

This post is long and rambling… Congratulations to my good friend Heather Petersen for her acceptance to the graduate theatre program at Ohio University. A full ride scholarship! Cheers!

That same man next to me is now praying with these two woman. A spiritual revival is occurring.

Now I will share with you my recent and final Hatch posters. A show in the Nashville Cats series at the Country Music Hall of Fame. Wayne Moss
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A commemorative poster for the Hamilton Wood Type and Printing Museum’s 10th anniversary. Hamilton is the type foundry that made much of Hatch Show Print’s collection over the past 130 years.
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A silly poster to warn the kids not to put their faces in Huey’s face.
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This was typeset by Mr. Jim, but I got to print it on my last day. It is inked by hand on the press. A gift for Simon (which is not the Simon as I first thought) for his work with American Idol when it came to the Grand Ole Opry.
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Thanks, kids. More misadventures to come.

one week to go

Saturday, April 11th, 2009

I have one more week on the job. Over so soon! It is great work, but it is unpaid work. Money running out. Must go home. But to return to TN soon?

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Another wedding poster. This was the one that the client did not like at first. I made minor changes–to froof it up, make it a bit more feminine. Looks good, looks good.

Other projects and random images.

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Another great letterpress studio in Nashville is Bryce McCloud’s Isle of Printing.

Free Bananas!

Tuesday, March 31st, 2009

Status update: content, quiet, tired, sometimes active, sometimes inactive. Riding my bike is fun in this town–up and down the hills, through the neighborhoods and parks, pissing off the cars. Saturday I was downtown, riding, looking to the sky at the brewing storm. It came, slowly, with a warm breeze and sunshine, then torrential downpour, as I took refuge in the nearest bar I could find. Sunday night I was riding a greenway in the dark, and a coyote crossed my path. Monday night, riding up 51st by my house, the passenger in a car threw the car’s cigarette lighter at me, hitting my shoulder. I almost caught up to them at a stoplight, their lighter in hand. On another note, I like to take ‘er easy. Early to bed, early to rise. Always a good night for a dumpster dive. Another aside, I have been helping out the kids in Food Not Bombs, cooking up delicious food in bulk on Sunday afternoons, serving it downtown to all the kind streetfolk. Last time, I dished up my kale specialty, with a hint of garam masala.

Enough talk, here are some fresh posters. Fresh Free Bananas posters. Each one is different–I pulled all sorts of backgrounds from the scrap piles. There are some real gems in here, but you must see them in person. My photographs are pretty terrible and heavily Photoshop-ed–ain’t no good lighting in the shop. But you get the idea:

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And I finished one today–a souvenir poster, for all them tourists wandering through the shop:

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And for good measure, here is a photo of manager Jim Sherraden printing on his massive press:

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two jobs done this week

Friday, March 27th, 2009

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That there is a giant wedding invitation I designed and printed this week. It is 14 X 22 inches, and they are going to mail these out as invitations. People take their weddings very seriously, so I hope they like it. Kurtis and Jen live out of town, so they won’t see the finished poster until the package arrives at their door. They damn well better like it.

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Alright, alright. Another one I designed this week. Please read through this thing to understand what it is. Oh, don’t quite understand why there is a drawing of a man in a suit bullfighting? Or why does it look like that man is in the mafia, nicely placing a blanket over a docile cow? Well, that man is Dewey Daane, in a bullfight in Spain. Don’t ask. I love this poster though. (I had to make a plate of all that tiny text in the bottom-left. Just too much type.)

Here is Eli, my fellow intern. I just like this photo.

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And did you know that Nashville has its very own full-size replica of the Greek Parthenon? It sits in the middle of Centennial Park–a nice, big park, just outside of downtown.

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A somewhat-informative explanation:

In the 1840’s educator Philip Lindsay thought that Nashville should encourage the ideals of Classical Greek education, such as Philosophy and Latin and be known as the Athens of the West. While that nick -name never took hold, decades later Nashville would be given a similar nick-name; Athens of the South, that would became synonymous with Nashville until the title of Music City arrived, with the dawn of the Grand Ole Opry in the 1930’s. If you look in the yellow pages of Nashville, you will still find many companies with the name of Athens within their title.

In 1895 Tennessee searched for a way to commemorate its 100-year anniversary and decided on a centennial exposition to be staged in its capitol of Nashville and then building an exact replica of the Parthenon of ancient Greece and thus the Parthenon, being the pinnacle of the Grand Exposition, was the first building erected.
–about.com

Gold ink is hot

Tuesday, March 24th, 2009

Quick update. New poster. This one is for a benefit concert at the Ryman Auditorium featuring Vince Gill. The client wanted a “contemporary” look with geometric shapes and lines. I used a metallic gold ink for the first color:

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Those big gold blocks are just the bottom of old plates. The top one has “NIXON” on the other side. Richard Nixon campaign poster way back when? Who knows. Then the black brings it all together:

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Mary snapped this photo of me printing. That’s a Vandercook just like what we use back at the UO (but a little bigger).

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