We invited some of our favourite international and homegrown artists to display their work at 2010’s NXNE poster show. The show ran at the lovely 5000 sq. foot Twist Gallery at 1100 Queen St. West.
Participating artists:
Out of towners:
- Budai – Pittsburgh, PA – crayondracula.blogspot.com
- Crash Design – Portland, OR – crashamerica.com
- Cricket Press – Lexington, KY – cricket-press.com
- Crosshair – Chicago, IL – crosshairchicago.com
- Nat Damm – Seattle, WA – natdamm.com
- Dwitt – Minneapolis, MN – dwitt.com
- Jack Dylan – Montreal, QC – jackdylan.ca
- Large Mammal Print – Oaklyn, NJ – largemammalprint.com
- LeDouxville – Seattle, WA – ledouxville.com
- Lil Tuffy – San Francisco, CA – lil-tuffy.com
- Patent Pending – Seattle, WA – patentpendingdesign.com
- Pedal Printing – Houston, TX – pedalprinting.com
- Uncle Charlie – The Woodlands, TX - unclecharlieart.com
And locals:
- Salvatore Angileri
- Stacey Case
- Tomas Del Balso
- Doublenaut – doublenaut.com
- Matt Daley
- Michael Deforge – kingtrash.com
- Roxanne Ignatius
- Playdead Cult
- Popfuel – popfuel.com
- Adam Swinbourne – adamswinbourne.com
Budai
Crash America
Cricket Press
1. Who I am?
Cricket Press – Sara & Brian Turner
2. Based out of?
Lexington, Kentucky
3. Website?
cricket-press.com
4. How long you been doing this?
Since 2003.
5. How’d you get into it to begin with?
We had invested in screens, clamps, a squeegee and built a printing table intending to teach ourselves screen-printing for use on paintings and other artistic pieces. Then a close friend asked us to design and print a gig poster for his band’s upcoming show. We were hooked. Soon, other local promoters and bands were asking us for posters…and it grew from there. We essentially learned the medium screen-printing by creating gig posters.
6. What keeps you making more designs?
Love for the medium, making art, and the music scene keeps us making more designs.
7. Words of wisdom to prospective screen printers?
Advice?: Love what you do, take small steps and continually challenge your creative abilities against your own work not the work of other artists.
8. If you could pick anyone in history to make a poster for, who would you pick and why?
There are SO MANY bands, spanning from the dawn of rock n’ roll, we would have loved to help promote with a gigposter. This question is way too hard to answer specifically. Though Brian has been able to do posters for 2 of his favorite bands (listed below)!
9. Fave bands/artists?
Sara: Archers of Loaf, Interpol, Bruce Springsteen
Brian: Yo La Tengo, The Sea & Cake, Fugazi
10. Computer or pencil?
Pencil, Ink, and Computer!
Crosshair
1. Who I am?
Dan MacAdam, doing business as Crosshair
2. Based out of?
Based in Chicago.
3. Website?
crosshairchicago.com
4. How long you been doing this?
15 years
5. How’d you get into it to begin with?
I became fascinated with screenprinting while studying Economics in college. Go figure.
Crosshair was founded as a band, that would produce posters instead of songs. It was, and remains, a way of participating and contributing to the music and cultural scene that I live in, and love.
6. What keeps you making more designs?
Permanent adolescence.
7. Words of wisdom to prospective screen printers?
You have to love printing. Not just designing, not just the end result, not just the band you’re working for, but the actual physical act of creation. If printing is just a necessary chore to you, it will show. Print should lead your design process, and inform every creative decision you make. A plague of half-assery afflicts the world of rock posters… learn to love printing, and strike a blow at its heart.
8. If you could pick anyone in history to make a poster for, who would you pick and why?
The Minutemen. Because they were the greatest of all time, and they embodied the spirit of doing it yourself, your own way, for your own reasons.
Currently, Circle, from Finland. Because they are the weirdest, must unique, most exciting band operating today, when there is so much sameness.
9. Fave bands/artists?
The Minutemen, Television, Codeine, Radio Birdman, Kraftwerk, Neu!, The Ramones, The Rolling Stones, ZZ Top, Oneida, Talking Heads, David Bowie, Motorhead, Circle, Big Star, Mission of Burma, The Jesus Lizard, Polvo, Sonic Youth, Neil Young, Napalm Death, etc, etc.
10. Computer or pencil?
Camera, pencil, computer, squeegee, in that order.
Nat Damm
1. Who I am?
Nat Damm
2. Based out of?
Seattle, Washington
3. Website?
Natdamm.com
4. How long you been doing this?
11 years
5. How’d you get into it to begin with?
I was tricked!
6. What keeps you making more designs?
Bills to pay/I get hungry
7. Words of wisdom to prospective screen printers?
Good luck
8. If you could pick anyone in history to make a poster for, who would you pick and why?
Zeppelin, no wait… Sabbath…. NO… Zeppelin… no, wait… AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!
9. Fave bands/artists?
Too many to list
10. Computer or pencil?
‘puter
Michael Deforge
Doublenaut
Dwitt
Jack Dylan
1. Who I am?
Jack Dylan
2. Based out of?
Montreal
3. Website?
jackdylan.ca
4. How long you been doing this?
5 year
5. How’d you get into it to begin with?
I was a painter, and stared a loft venue, then stared making posters for the shows there.
6. What keeps you making more designs?
I love illustration, I like it’s place in the public forum, I like how you can be use it to comment, I like how it can be used to communicate information, tell a story, or just be beautiful.
7. Words of wisdom to prospective screen printers?
I’m not a screen printer, I’m just an illustrator.
8. If you could pick anyone in history to make a poster for, who would you pick and why?
Toulouse-Lautrec — He’s maybe the most famous poster artist of all time.
9. Fave bands/artists?
Duke Ellington, Nino Rota, Max Richter, Mozart, Wolf Parade.
10. Computer or pencil?
Both.
Large Mammal Print
Ledouxville
Lil’ Tuffy
Patent Pending
Pop Fuel
Uncle Charlie
