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Recent work
4c 24″x36″ ERASERHEAD posters. Now available on our webstore.
Updated pricing
Custom Printing section updated to cover pricing for 24″x36″ posters.
(9 color, 24″x36″ posters designed by Tyler Stout)
The Webstore is back!
Our webstore is back up and filled with new items. We’ve added a bunch of new prints and t-shirts. Including a timed pre-order for official Migration Fest posters and shirts. Since they both sold out so quickly at the fest Dave (20 Buck Spin) and Adam (Gilead Media) have decided to give everyone a chance to get them that missed out or couldn’t make it to the fest. These will be available for order from Friday 9/9 through Friday 9/16.
In addition to the new posters and shirts we are now offering one-of-a-kind test prints and several different mystery tube options. Test prints will be added regularly and the mystery tubes will contains all sorts of prints from our archives not available anywhere else.
Summer Sale
We’ve been doing some cleaning and reorganizing around the shop. For the next two weeks starting Wednesday August 17th you can get 50% off all orders using the code SUMMERSALE.
After the sale we will be taking the entire store down add new stock and reorganize. Many of the prints currently on the site will no longer be available after the sale
More halftone experiments
Halftones
Experimenting with some new approaches to CMYK process printing
Synchronistic design
We print for a number of clients, and they all (obviously) have different aesthetic tastes, and gravitate towards different poles on the design axis. What is interesting–to me, anyway–is when those varied and disparate aesthetic sensibilities happen to converge in synchronistically notable and/or straight up uncanny ways. Sometimes we’ll receive a handful of orders all at once, and while none of the clients have any relationship to one another, the cluster of jobs will have a unifying theme of some sort. Color palettes will converge, or a specific (and otherwise singular-seeming) design element will appear in all of them, etc., etc., etc. I always enjoy it, because it is just one of those wonderfully banal-yet-mysterious, boring-yet-hilarious parts of being a person, and I gotta say, I really appreciate glimmering crap like that. Sometimes even, when life is hard or work is horrible, being faced with this phenomenon in its most blatant manifestation can effectively shake me out of whatever myopic funk I’ve been in. It’s like, hey! Lighten up! Life is difficult, but it’s also funny if you get out of your own head and pay attention to it.
This is a dialed down version of that. Yeah it’s not as extreme as some of the iterations we’ve encountered, but I never documented those, so there you go! (A person has got to start somewhere, don’t they?) Anyway, we printed these posters this week for the Capitol Hill Block Party poster show (which opens tonight at 7pm at V2–the old Capitol Hill Val Vill!). Yeah, they all happen to be for the same event, but that’s precisely the point! I hadn’t noticed the very real color commonality that exists in this grouping until I rounded them all up and saw them together. Seen together like this, it feels like each design passed the aesthetic baton to the design that came next–like they’re playing a game of cosmic telephone with one another or something. Ahh, artistic creation and its relation to the collective unconscious–I love it! Ok, enough of me, yeah? Take a look for yourself!
Washed Out / 1 color poster / designed by Jordan Butcher (Studio Workhorse)
Car Seat Headrest / 3 color poster / designed by Greg Franklin (Kentucky Chrome)
Porter Ray / 2 color poster / designed by Matthew Hollister
The Cave Singers / 3 color poster / designed by Andrew Saeger (Factory 43)
Mild High Club / 3 color poster / designed by Callie Logan
Broken Press blog takeover
Hey y’all! In an effort to rectify our less-than-stellar Internet Presence™, I’m going to make Herculean efforts to be here on the reg–starting now, damnit! The plan is–of course–to use this space to convey what’s going on at the shop (e.g. notify about events and sales, highlight what we’re printing each week, etc.), but I’d also like to track design trends as we see them (stylistic synchronicities abound!), highlight some of our current obsessions & inspirations, and maybe even interview some of our wonderful clients!
Anyway, thanks for bearing with us while I get my sea-legs under me, and thanks in general for your support!
Danie & Andrew
Broken Press Design and Print 