Poster: Great Lake Swimmers

Posted on April 15, 2009
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Poster for the Great Lake Swimmers when they played at the Bottom of the Hill, in April, 2009. Bandleader Anthony Dekker is a class act, and even signed one of the copies for me. Same process as the White Denim poster; multiple pass inkjet on handmade paper in lieu of actual screenprinting.

Check out the Great Lake Swimmers. If you don’t like them, you are likely dead inside.
Poster is 13″ x 21″

Poster: White Denim

Posted on April 8, 2009
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Did up a poster for a band from Austin who was coming through town for a show last week. Original plan was to screenprint, but time and resources were short. I ended experimenting with my Epson large format printer using thicker, non-photo art paper and sending the prints through multiple times to simulate the overlays of real screenprinting. It’s nice to get away from web delivered stuff once in a while.

The downside is you don’t get the feel of screenprints, and there is no such thing as white ink on a printer, which limits your paper colors somewhat. In fact, the printer is using what it is assuming is the white of the paper as a color to mix colors, so results vary with off-white papers. Both the Bottom of the Hill (SF club) and the band were into it, which was great. I’ll be selling some on Etsy sometime in the near future.

Check out White Denim.
Poster is 13″ x 21″

Interactive Installation: Inside Light

Posted on April 3, 2009
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The concept of Chris Hornbecker’s photo show “The Inside Light” (see my poster design for this in a previous entry) was portraits of people’s inspirational word reflected in either their eyes, or on sunglasses, etc. Great stuff.

To accompany the show, we created an interactive installation. We let users enter, and interact with projected type via their iphones, actually any phones with a web browser. All done with standard PHP and Flash, and Pixelrevision’s coding brilliance. Big possibilities with that setup for sure.

White Denim

Posted on April 2, 2009
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Austin’s White Denim live at San Francisco’s Bottom of the Hill on April 2nd.

The Bottom of the Hill is one of SF’s best rock clubs. They get a lot of top-shelf acts coming through, and it’s an intimate space. Great place to see music. I have gotten to know Lynne a little bit, who handles promotion and serves up a mean vodka tonic. She is a very nice person, as is a couple of the other people that work there. As far as the posters, it went over well. She only asked that I give her a couple copies, and I hooked the band up as well with a couple as well. Good vibes all around, so that was positive. Music-wise, it was definitely a rocking show… but loud as all hell, at least up front. If I had known they sold earplugs at the bar I would have bought a set for sure.

Look for a Great Lake Swimmers poster I did for the same venue coming soon… which just happened to be on the next night! I’m hoping to do more as time goes on with this great venue.