Alan HynesAlan Hynes is a Graphic Designer, originally from Ireland he now lives in San Francisco, California. He has worked for many years in the skateboarding industry designing skateboards and t-shirts for the Spitfire, Real and Antihero brands. Much of his time is spent designing and hand printing limited edition posters for all manner of music and events, his designs have also appeared on numerous record covers.
Billy Perkins
Illustrator and graphic designer Billy Perkins is a longtime native of Austin, Texas. His studio and its tagline "Good Ideas Thru Bad Living" were established in 1992, shortly after graduating with a BFA in Commercial Art from Texas State University. Advertising design, logos and illustration paid the bills, but a passion for music and a love of rock poster art soon made designing for the music industry the primary focus. Perkins has since become internationally known as an award-winning rock poster artist for his work with Alice in Chains, David Bowie, ZZ Top and many more. His posters for both bands and movies have been featured in several books. He has also designed CD packages for bands including The Arcangels and Cheap Trick.
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Burlesque Of North America
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Dan Mumford
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David O'Daniel
Raised in Western Australia, David left on his travels across three continents finally landing in San Francisco. A lifelong movie poster collector he made a chance discovery at a flea market of some screen printed posters made for SF movie houses in the 1970's and became obsessed with the idea of creating custom posters for venues today. Thus, in 2009, with little experience in art/design or screen printing, he started to make posters for The Castro Theatre. He has quickly become well respected among other artists and collectors alike. Due to his unique style, David is becoming more popular with every new print that he creates.
In some correspondence with David: "All my posters are printed by hand and by himself (myself?) on a press set up, that appears to have been made by wombles. It consists of a 40 year old vacuum cleaner, a kitchen table found in a dumpster, a squeegee, a very sore back and a bottle of advil."
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Drew Binkley
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Gina Kelly (Weather Maker Press)
Gina Kelly is the talent behind Weather Maker Press, an LA based company which produces gig posters for many of your favorite bands. Currently a student in the Experimental Animation Dept. at the California Institute of the Arts, she's making films across all mediums, including a live action short shot in Paris, a hand drawn comedy about a drunk goat saving a baby's life, and children's bedtime story about a grasshopper. She's worked for many artists in both studio and museum settings including Takashi Murakami, Pat O'Neil, Herb Alpert, Brent Green, Andrea Zittel, and musicians Andrew Bird, Beirut, Built to Spill, and Bonnie Prince Billy, among many more. She's even played in the Violent Femmes band for their 2005 tour! In the last two years, she's been studying under Stephen Chiodo of Chiodo Brothers studios, Suzan Pitt, and Maureen Selwood. Though she's newer to animated films, she's shown in the Stuttgart Trick Film Festival, and Pes claims to be a huge fan of her artwork. Her recent work even includes a music video for TV on the Radio! Her work has shown internationally, and is included in several books on art and design. You can find her this summer in the studio screen printing, selling her work at The Pitchfork Music Festival in Chicago, IL, and working on pre-production for Super-Natura!
Justin Santora
A Chicagoland based artist and illustrator focusing mainly on drawing and printmaking. Justin Santora's work is complex in process and thought but simple in beauty. The ideas of innocence and the loss there-of, the weaving memories that shape our lives, and the longing of someone who is outside looking in are all prevalent in the composition of Justin's work. The nostalgia of childhood that lingers on into our adult lives and the paths of daydreams we want to lose ourselves in are inherent in his art. The starkness of the landscapes and the muted panes of color form an emotional bond with the subject matter of the pieces through the painstakingly detailed fine lines and scratchings of the drawings themselves. Based out of Northern Illinois, Justin's amazing work stands out as a monument to all of our wishes even in the face of our sometimes daunting reality.
Bio by Erin Armstrong, Screwball Press
Malleus
From Tortona in Italy comes (arguably) the most imaginative and distinctive trios in the world of rock poster art. In this predominantly American world of rock posters the work created by Poia, Lu and Urlo (Malleus) is immediately recognizable with shades so distinctively European. A Malleus rock poster not only captures the spirit of the band but they beautifully capture the spirit and traditions of their homeland.
Iconography is at the forefront of their work and vast scenery including figurative arts, in particular Expressionism, Symbolism, Art Nouveau, Surrealism, Pop Art, Psychedelic Art and also comics, photography, cinema and literature. All these ingredients blend in with the main element of their poetics; the female form, the primordial goddess, from whom everything comes.
At the centre of Malleus' art we often find beautiful, yet mysterious women. Usually this is accentuated by occult symbolism worked into arcane textures. All of their work is based on masterful hand-drawings and reflect the artists' deep understanding and love for music.
Malleus' extensive catalogue of posters created to date includes works for acts such as: Beck, Blues Explosion, Brant Bjork, The Cure, Deftones, Dinosaur Jr., Eagles of Death Metal, Flaming Lips, Helmet, Iggy Pop & The Stooges, Kings of Leon, Mars Volta, Melvins, Mogwai, Mark Lanegan, Mudhoney, Muse, Nine Inch Nails, The Prodigy, Robert Plant, Queen of the Stone age, Sonic Youth, and many more...
The work of Malleus has been displayed in various collective and individual art shows. They have been included in "Art of Modern Rock", the gig poster gospel by Paul Grushkin and Dennis King, in "Art of Modern Rock: Mini #1 A-Z" and "Art of Modern Rock: Mini #2 Poster Girls" by Dennis king, in "Swag posters" by Judith Salavetz and in "A fistful of Rock'n'Roll" by Sal Canzonieri.
Methane Studios
Established in 1998, Methane Studios is a full service design and illustration studio producing limited-edition, screen-printed posters. Methane was co-founded by artists Mark McDevitt and Robert Lee. The roots of this partnership started in the mid 1980s at Columbus College of Art and Design located in Columbus, Ohio. Robert and Mark, both from small Ohio towns, majored in Art and Illustration, they formed a friendship that would transcend into creating award winning artwork recognized worldwide and a well earned reputation as one of the top screen-printing poster design studios in the world. They have put their award-winning designs to work on posters for Wilco, Pearl Jam, Dave Matthews Band, Rilo Kiley and others.
"In college we learned in a more traditional way which allowed us to explore techniques that we use today. We never let our posters "look" computerized. We use the computer like a pencil or paint brush. The computer has allowed us to speed things up and to explore more options for sure, but we still belly up to the drafting table often. We draw inspiration form many artists be it musical or visual and our work tends to have a vintage influence".
Nick Rhodes (Switchopen)
Established in Manchester in 2004, Switchopen offers a unique service of design, illustration and print; Combining an interest in printmaking and music, Switchopen offers a creative and bespoke approach to projects large and small.
Switchopen has produced work for national and international music artists such as Queens of the Stone Age, The Fleet Foxes and The National.
Rhys Cooper
For many years Rhys Cooper lived a double life, mild mannered clothing and fashion designer by day and poster artist by night (and weekends)... Graduated from Swinburne University in his hometown of Melbourne, Australia, he discovered the world of gig posters thanks to Beyond the Pale Posters in his 4th and final year. After the following 6 years in streetwear a decision was made to focus on posters and he hasn't looked back since. Rhys has proudly created work for bands such as Queens of the Stone Age, The Bronx, Them Crooked Vultures, Mark Lanegan, Rage Against The Machine and many others as well as working with the Alamo Drafthouse and the charity Movember.
Rich Kelly
Raised in a small town outside of Pittsburgh PA, Rich Kelly grew up with an affinity for nature, steel, and a baseball team that hasn't been good since 1992. Going against the advice of some of his illustration professors at Syracuse University, Rich majored in illustration and graduated Magna Cum Laude in 2007. He has called Chicago home since 2008, where he rides a bicycle everywhere and draws everyday. Rich has been making posters since April of 2010, working for bands such as The Black Keys and The Flight of the Conchords. He has quickly made a name for himself within the gig poster scene after making only a handful of posters.
Rodolfo Reyes
Born and raised in Mexico City, Rodolfo showed an interest in drawing and painting from an early age. He enrolled in several courses and graduated with a bachelor degree as Graphic Designer and Illustrator.
Rodolfo has worked for various companies but his passion for movies took him on a different path as a freelance designer. He has created posters for short films and paid tribute to several movies in his artwork. He has also entered the editorial world by illustrating several book covers.
Having mastered a characteristic Art Deco style, he is always looking to experiment with diverse styles and tools, in this process he has been inspired by masters such as Maurice Cassandre, Saul Bass, Drew Struzan and several contemporary colleagues. Rodolfo has already won several poster and design awards and his fan base is growing all the time as more and more people are discovering his wonderful artwork.
Tim Doyle
Tim Doyle is a comic book artist, screen printer and designer living in Austin, TX. He went to college for art but considers himself self-taught. He directed/ curated the Alamo Drafthouse Cinema's movie print series from 2005 to early 2009. He is now the owner and lead designer of Nakatomi Inc. Tim built and his own print shop in 2009 along with fellow poster artist Clint Wilson. Doyle published the diary zine 'Amazing Adult Fantasy' from 2001-2003. He is currently the artist on 'The Intergalactic Nemesis' comic book.
William Schaff
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