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Posted by Jason Urban on March 13th, 2010 | 
All you designers-turned-printmakers and printmakers-turned-designers should pay attention to this one. The good people at Rockport Publishers were kind enough send us a review copy of their 2009 release, Dirty Fingernails: A One-of-a-Kind Collection of Graphics Uniquely Designed by Hand by John Foster. As the subtitle suggests, the book is a survey of artist/designers working with “old” media to arrive at interesting (and commercially viable) results. While the book doesn’t focus on printmaking specifically, it is about the current embrace of the human hand in design and by default, plenty of hand-printing is included.
Lots of Printeresting favorites are featured in the book… The Little Friends of Printmaking, The Small Stakes, Ellen Lupton, Tyler Stout, The Decoder Ring Design Concern, and Yokoland to name a handful. Rather than delving deep into the psychology of The Hand-Made with essays, Foster gives us a quick intro about the importance of tactile experience and then let’s the work do the talking. Each piece featured in the book is accompanied by an insightful paragraph or two of exposition explaining the what why, and how.
 Can’t go wrong with a Boston by Little Friends.
Continue reading Book Review: Dirty Fingernails
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Posted by Jason Urban on January 27th, 2010 | Nice poster by Kii Arens from a January 24th Radiohead Haiti Benefit concert in LA. This poster has run into a second edition by popular demand. All proceeds from sales go to Haiti via OXFAM. Posters for a good cause.
 RADIOHEAD for Haiti, Signed/numbered Lithograph by Kii Arens
16.5″ x 22.5″, Edition of 250 • (2nd edition), $75 each at La La Land Posters.
Posted by Jason Urban on December 8th, 2009 | As loyal readers know, Printeresting has been diligently noting the faddishness of printmaking for quite a while. From Martha Stewart and Jay Leno to Urban Outfitters and J. Crew, popular culture has embracing printing technologies. A related trend has been the boom in the hand-printed poster market. While no accurate data is available, the popularity of sites like gigposters, omgposters, and expressobeans, is a testament to the power of the contemporary poster.
Further proof, even network television shows are getting in on the print craze. According to Lostpedia (that’s the Lost Encyclopedia, of course), Damon, Carlton and a Polar Bear is a Lost alternate reality game from ABC studios. In addition to the game, the site has been selling hand-printed silkscreens commemorating the show. The posters are designed by some of the top designers in the field including Leia Bell, Jason Munn, and Jay Ryan…
 Ken Taylor, The Smoke Monster, 24″x18″, silkscreen, edition of 300.
 Jay Ryan, The Polar Bear, 24″x18″, silkscreen, edition of 300.
ABC commissioned the game and the posters earlier in the year as part of a viral ad campaign in anticipation of Lost’s last season. The project is an example of a large media corporation using the handmade object as way to create a sense of exclusivity and connect with their audience in a more “real” way. Admittedly, 300 isn’t exactly a small edition but judging by all the “sold out” signs, the strategy works. You can see the rest of the posters here.
Posted by Jason Urban on November 15th, 2009 | artonpaper’s The Great Poster Project is “an ongoing series of specially commissioned, limited edition original posters by contemporary artists and designers that vary in format, size, and approach. Some artists will design single posters while others will work in series. The project will reflect upon the many guises and functions of the poster format: souvenir, propaganda, instruction, decoration, education, and artwork-surrogate.” artonpaper was at E/AB promoting their magazine as well as the fourth poster in the series…
 Monique Prieto, Make Bold With All Things, 28 3/4x 20 3/4, Ultrachrome Ink on Archival Paper, 2009.
Prieto sources “from the diaries of Samuels Pepys, a British naval administrator in the 17th century” but strips the quote of it’s original context leaving it open to interpretation. Past poster artists include Thomas Nozkowski and Printeresting favorite Polly Apfelbaum. This is great way to support the rare art world magazine that has long paid attention to printed matter.
Posted by amze on October 5th, 2009 |  The IBU400 X 2 exhibition at Space 1026 in Philadelphia came down last week and for anyone who missed it here’s your review. The exhibit was a floor to ceiling catalog raisonne showcasing the work of the Montreal-based screen printing collective Seripop. From the exhibition blurb:
Formed in 2002, Seripop is the nom de guerre of Chloe Lum and Yannick Desranleau, the award-winning creative duo behind Seripop. Based in Montreal, Seripop has earned international attention for its stylistically distinct, silkscreened street posters which have been featured in notable books such as newly published New Vintage Type’, ‘New Masters of Poster Design’ and ‘Print Liberation: The Screen Printing Primer’ among many others. IBU400 X 2 presents a wide range of works created since Seripop’s inception, with posters, prints and books for display and sale.
While that is a concise description it only begins to describe the print-phantasmagoria produced by this art/design team. There work is very exciting and you can see more of it on their website.
As you can see the show was literally wall to wall with screen prints, some band or event posters others serving more artistic or obscure goals. And they were also piled up for sale; cheap too.
For more pictures of work by Seripop follow the story after the jump.
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Posted by amze on August 25th, 2009 | Hey You… I see you hiding back there.. Please come out from behind that poster. We like you and we like your snappy poster too!
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More after the jump.
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Posted by Jason Urban on July 16th, 2009 | Making “the grind” a little more tolerable… The Cubicle Poster Show was a year-long rotating exhibition of poster art held in… well… a cubicle. Curator/collector Mike Gaughan rotated posters from his collection every two weeks. Read see/more at Whatever: The Journal for Good People with Bad Jobs. About the featured posters…
For the most part I collect posters that have some kind of Rhode Island connection. Either the concert was in RI, the band is from RI, or the artist is from RI. There are a few exceptions, but for the most part the posters I hung had some kind of RI connection.
Go, state pride!
 Cubicle 2 (July 14, 2008-August 1, 2008) featuring posters by Peter MacPhee.
 Cubicle 8 (November 1 – November 14, 2008) featuring three posters by Jim Draper (and two unattributed works).
 Cubicle 9 (November 15 – December 1, 2008) featuring work by Michaela Colette Zacchilli.
 Cubicle 12 (January 15 – January 3o, 2009) featuring work by JRTMCP.
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Posted by Jason Urban on July 9th, 2009 | Some may call him “Lebowski,” but Jeff Bridges will always be “Flynn” to Printeresting.
It was twenty seven years ago, on July 9, 1982, that the world was introduced to the visionary science fiction film Tron. The movie offered many their first notion of The Computer as Environment, presenting the computer as a place as much as an object or tool. Tron pioneered digital technology in film-making (though according to Wikipedia, the Motion Picture Academy refused to nominate Tron for special effects because they considered the use of computers ‘cheating’).
Director Steven Lisberger “was immediately fascinated by video games and wanted to do a film incorporating them… He was frustrated by the clique-ish nature of computers and video games and wanted to create a film that would open this world up to everyone.” Hmmm… a community’s “clique-ish nature” causing its own marginalization. Sound familiar, printmakers?
Here are some silkscreened posters…
 Brad Klausen, Tron Poster for Alamo Drafthouse, Silkscreen (w/ glow-in-the-dark ink!), 24″x36″, 2008.
 Kayrock & Wolfy, Untitled, Silkscreen, 26′x20″, 2001.
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Posted by Jason Urban on June 23rd, 2009 | Summer is for big-budget blockbusters… or so we’re regularly told. Here’s a more low key approach to Hollywood.
Film The Blanks is “an ongoing experiment to abstract and/or reduce film posters.” John Taylor takes pre-existing film posters and filters them through a minimalist design lens, reducing them to the bare essentials. Taylor, intentionally or not, makes a strong case for the importance of graphic design and print media in establishing a film’s identity in the minds of viewers. While it’s fun to figure out what movies go with what poster (it’s actually a game on the website), most fare successful as enigmatic abstractions. Here are some of the more recognizable ones…
 A selection of Taylor’s minimized posters are available for purchase as digital prints.
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Posted by Jason Urban on June 1st, 2009 | 
This is one of four public service posters designed by NY-based design firm Big Ant International for the Global Coalition for Peace. Amazing work for a good cause. BAI does a lot of really smart print campaigns… their projects for the Red Cross and BK Plastic Surgery are particularly sharp.
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