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Can we get a Hell Yeah? L2 gets published in Communication Arts.

Jeff Matz — Thu, 01 Jul 2010 19:50:26 +0000

That’s not clapping. That’s a little high fivin’ goin’ on around here. We’re excited to see our other venture, L2 Design Collective, included in the July/August issue of Communication Arts Magazine. The article, titled ‘Enterprising Designers,’ features six studios that are creating and selling their own products. We are honored to be included with the likes of Yee Haw Industries and Bill Grant.

For those of you who don’t know, L2 Design Collective creates hand screen printed note cards, journals and other ephemera. It’s been five years of hard work, squeezed between what we refer to as ‘real jobs’ from our Lure clients, that has kept L2 growing. It’s a labor of love. And it’s paying off.

Some big thanks go to: Kim Fox, who pushed this idea along and continues to be L2’s manager, operating from Pittsburgh; Sarah Blacksher, who, on top of her workload for Lure, designs great stuff for L2 and manages the print production for L2; and all our interns who’ve pulled thousands of prints.

Almost famous. Emphasis on almost.

Jeff Matz — Tue, 05 Jan 2010 15:24:26 +0000

Here’s a screen grab from the Hangover DVD extras. Lookie there! No, not at Carrot Top pinching Zach Galifianakis. Up there, on the wall in the left of the frame. That’s a poster we designed for Carrot Top’s Vegas show a few years back. It’s fun to see our work out in the real world now and then.

Purple Rain Poster

Jeff Matz — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 22:11:18 +0000

Here’s the newest poster in the Cult Classic Series for Enzian. This one was designed by our own, Kelly Romano.

Intern, Timothy Meadows, printing the first plate.

The Exorcist poster

Jeff Matz — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 14:50:37 +0000

The latest poster in the Enzian Cult Classic Movies poster series.

Russian Circles poster

Jeff Matz — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 15:04:08 +0000

It’s been a slow year for posters. This is the first gigposter I’ve done in months. It’ll be a bear to print. In the coming days, I plan on posting about the process of creating this poster, too.

Come to our white trash garage sale!

Jeff Matz — Wed, 08 Apr 2009 17:28:31 +0000

Great deals on posters, note cards and other crap.

Trading Hatred for Hope

Jeff Matz — Fri, 30 Jan 2009 00:02:48 +0000

Our friend and creative partner, Mark Freid of Think Creative, made a documentary style video about the Holocaust for the Holocaust Memorial Resource and Education Center in Central Florida. The video can be viewed at Trading Hatred for Hope. In Mark’s words it was “…an opportunity to encourage people to think more deeply about how the atrocities of the past have shaped our world today.” Watch it and feel free to join the discussion on the message board. We are proud to have played a small part in helping bring this video to the internet by designing the site. Our friends at Drive New Media did the web development.

o’death poster

Jeff Matz — Tue, 27 Jan 2009 20:13:22 +0000

Tickling Leo

Jeff Matz — Tue, 20 Jan 2009 21:46:09 +0000

I was really impressed by the Mary Stuart Masterson directed film, “The Cake Eaters,” at the Florida Film Festival last year. That might have been my favorite movie at the Festival. So, I was thrilled when Festival staffer extraordinaire, Lucas Draper, called to tell me Mary Stuart and her brother Peter loved the poster we did for the Festival and wanted to talk to me about a poster for a film they were about to wrap. The project was a perfect fit for us since they wanted a vintage screenprint look. Here’s the final poster–with some help from Larry Moore on the illustration. Mary Stuart, Peter and the rest of Barn Door Pictures were great to work with.