TwoJeez

If you’ve looked any of my work, you know that I am a fan of doing gig posters. Most of the posters that I do are set up with screen printing in mind. Unfortunately, I don’t often (or ever) have the opportunity to actually get them screen printed.

My latest project gave me enough lead time that I was able to call in a favor to my friends at Commonwealth Press. My good friend Dove is the lead signer of the band Pancake. They have a show coming up and she asked me if I’d be interested in doing a flyer. I (almost) always jump at the opportunity to create a poster for local shows and since I already had an idea floating around in my head, I accepted.

It’s an interesting challenge going from faux screen printed posters to the real deal. It’s not a terribly forgiving medium and choosing the design style requires a bit of thought. While complex designs are achievable, you have to keep the interaction of the colors in mind when designing. Dan from Commonwealth had given me some advice in the past so I had a decent idea of the design mistakes I should avoid. Upon sending the files over, Dan didn’t see any problems getting the art to reproduce. I have to thank a production specialist at work, Linda Twining, for hunting down enough paper to print the job. We printed on Cougar uncoated 80# cover. The paper took the ink fairly well with minimal warping.

We printed a run of 50 that I will be signing and numbering tonight. If anyone is interesting in purchasing a poster, let me know. I’ll be trying to figure out a way to set up a paypal link in order to figure out payment. How does $10 sound?

Here are pictures of the process, and the final printed piece.

Thanks to Dan Rugh of Commonwealth Press for spending his evening getting these printed. If you ever need t-shirts printed, this is only place. Call them, or else!  This also wouldn’t have been printed without the help of my wonderful girlfriend Sarah who saved the day when we ran out of red ink. She happened to have had the exact color that we needed, and was nice enough to run home to grab it.  Finally, I have to thank Pancake for the opportunity to make this poster real. I hope you guys dig it as much as I do.

The finished product.