I had the chance to catch The Raconteurs this weekend with my buddy Dave from Earvolution. I was definitely psyched to see Jack White and co. again, but I must admit, when Dave said he had an extra ticket I was almost equally excited to see what Rob Jones had in store for the gig poster.
I know I’ve posted about it before, but Rob Jones and Jack White just have that special connection. For a few years Rob has been the exclusive artist behind the image of The White Stripes, and fortunately for art lovers that connection transfered to The Raconteurs.
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I was trolling through the recently uploaded posters on gigposters, waiting for something to jump out at me for this week’s Print Tease, and surprisingly nothing did. Sure, there were some fine posters buried in there, but nothing grabbed me. So I decided to take this week to highlight an unbelievably cool ongoing series of movie posters put out by the Alamo Drafthouse.
Normally we are looking at gig posters, but these prints are gig posters. Beginning in 2005, the Alamo took their reels on the road with the first Rolling Roadshow, a summer tour of outdoor screenings. Not only are they showing films outside, they’re showing “famous films in famous places.” This means they showed The Warriors in Coney Island, and Escape From Alcatraz actually on Alcatraz Island. Thankfully for us poster and movie fans, they’ve been hooking up with some great talent for each stop along the way.
In 2008 the Austin outfit is moving their show overseas, showing three Sergio Leone films in Spain, and they’ve expanded poster production to events outside of the official Rolling Roadshow including screenings of Big Trouble in Little China and Iron Man. Keep reading for some of my personal highlights and some of the most recent addition to the series.
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I have a nasty habit of taking photographs without people in them. In fact, I prefer landscapes, plants, and especially buildings. Truth is, people can ruin pictures sometimes. Maybe one person isn’t looking, or another closed their eyes. Some might see these imperfections as human, something to be lauded in photos as opposed to eradicated. I usually do not.
This is probably why Dan MacAdam’s work appeals to me so much.
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In Drymount! and Print Tease I’ve looked at artists and bands who have had long productive relationships. Pearl Jam and Ames Bros. have been working together for over 10 years; Rob Jones shapes the White Stripe’s image almost as much as Jack White does. Another really fruitful combination has been indie-favorite The Arcade Fire and Minneapolis printing outfit Burlesque of North America.
There were a lot of Print Tease worthy prints released this week, including some choice prints from Emek, Jermaine, Jay Ryan and others. But I went with this latest Arcade Fire print to show once again how an artist can shape a bands larger identity.
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I was mulling a few options for Print Tease this week. Then gigposters had an update and I had a clear cut winner, Guy Burwell’s poster for The Cure. I couldn’t care less about the band, but I couldn’t be more excited for this poster, I think this is the best print I’ve seen in a while.
Every year the Sasquatch festival in George, Washington organizes a really cool series of posters for every band playing the festival. There are usually one or two gems that come out of the group, and I think the competition in 2008 is over. Guy is the winner.
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As I think I’ve discussed before, I often see gig poster artists split into two categories: Illustrators and Designers. This is, of course, an over-simplification; many illustrators have a great sense of design, and lots of designers can draw. However, when looking through the pages and pages of new arrivals on Gigposters every week, I frequently see posters landing in one camp or the other.
Some people will only buy hand-drawn, intricately illustrated posters, others simply like clean lines, and a strong graphic design. I’m an equal opportunity poster geek, but this weeks Print Tease jumped out at me for its asymmetrical composition and awesome use of pictographs.
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By all accounts Spoon are a pretty good band to work with. That’s probably why they’ve had a number of posters done for them — a lot of really good posters. Everyone from Aesthetic Apparatus to Todd Slater to The Decoder Ring have tried their hand at the Spoon gig poster, but the evil eyes of this week’s Print Tease keep catching my own.
Pittsburgh artist strawberryluna is the one behind this mini-series, and the most recent of which was for last week’s gig in the Steel City.
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It didn’t take me long to pick out our first Print Tease on its regularly scheduled day. Any fans of the White Stripes or The Raconteurs are sure to be familiar with the artwork of Rob Jones. His fingerprints have been all over the meticulously designed images of both bands through packaging, shirts, and of course, gig posters.
Somewhere in between working on Jack White projects, Rob sometimes finds time to do gig posters for other bands. Recent posters have advertised shows for Band of Horses and The Willowz, but this Print Tease we’ll look at Rob’s latest and greatest for The Dirtbombs.
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