Entries from March 2009
March 31st, 2009 · 1 Comment
Where rock posters go to sell.
We put on our ass kickin’ boots and flew out to Austin last week to Flatstock 20, SXSW’s annual poster exhibit. The makeshift cardboard halls were alive with the smell of ink, a sign that screenprinting is still vital to music scenes across the country. The American Poster Institute once [...]
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March 16th, 2009 · 1 Comment
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They knew what it would look like. These were visual people. The design was simple: really big type that almost filled the page that read “I promise I will never use Hobo, Comic Sans, or Papyrus ever again.” The ink was black. They all saw the red, monochromatic Nine Inch Nails poster. They must have [...]
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