Died Young, Stayed Pretty…

After already being covered by my man Rich over at Bands & Design (Post) I found out this morning that Died Young, Stayed Pretty (a rather super duper looking movie about Poster Design and American sub-culture is getting a UK screening at the ICA in London from the 9th of October, for the entire month (timetable here)… what’s better, the ‘Cannot distribute to the UK’ line on their website will now be able to be ignored as the ICA will be the UK distributor of the title…

Second movie title of the post is American Artefact: The Rise of American Rock Poster Art, I think it’ll be a little more formal in tone than the aforementioned Died Young but nevertheless, a great movie about a great artform…

Ace Poster No. 2 – Roofwalkers Tour Poster

Roofwalkers, before right now, I have never heard this band, my usual morning trawl through the internet churned up this beautiful piece of poster before I was able to chew my breakfast… They’re a band from Washington DC that don’t sound too far different from something that Sub Pop would release… I like it… anyway. The designer is Sonnen Zimmer and a real simple, modernist feel has been created… I love seeing creative use of colours, especially when screen printing is brought into play! This is also continues onto album artwork and i’d imagine, further into the realms of band merch!

Sonnen Zimmer print their own posters and have so much work in their portfolio and also in their store…

I absolutely adore the first print below, it’s for a project called the Show and Tell Show which is a collective of artists bringing design to the fore…

I’m even toying with getting a copy of this 8- colour beauty delivered so it ca take pride and place above a fireplace someday…

Ace Poster No.1 – Andrew Bird

This poster is from Aesthetic Apparatus who, have made a bunch of my favorite posters over the past few months. This, for Andrew Bird is ace, a nice use of colour defines the 3-D aspects in the funnels…

They’ve done a bunch of work for The Dead Weather, Future of the Left and Vivian Girls, M Ward, Aginst Me! and so many more!… Check out the portfolio and the store for a bunch of ace prints… Postage to the UK is super steep but never mind!

Here’s a few more lush bits and bobs: