Ahoy Matey’s!!! Welcome to the fifth edition of Urban Art Warfare’s sporadic editorial of Album Art Interviews and Reviews with the unsung heroes of the music industry, the Album artist. We here at UAW are huge fans of album art just as much as the music and have always wondered what crazy stories and symbolisms lay within them, and what kind of behind the scene production it takes to make them. This edition features Michael Tabie of Orlando’s own Lure Design. If your and indie band or just a broke one, but you still want some good design, well then pay attention, because Kendrick’s got the questions, and Michael’s bringing the answers.Check the interview we served up for for the Juicy Details! and Funky smells!
Due to the number of inquires, we are opening the Partisan the Sea political poster show for submissions. Depending the number of spaces we have left and the date we receive the posters we will determine what makes it into the show.
WE ARE PUSHING THE DEADLINE TO SEPTEMBER 23RD to give you more time to produce it and us plenty of time to hang them. The theme of this show is anything goes, anything political. Candidates, Issues, world peace, freedom of speech, global warning… poverty etc. the overall theme of “Partisan” is to let people know your opinion or view, what ever that may be. Your poster can just be an image or just type or a tricycle with a flag on it for that matter if it means something to you. Just as long as your sharing your opinion. we were just really tired of political shows that were afraid of the issues and just encourage voting and not what to vote for. Stay tuned to the website for more information and updates like this one. PTS Open For Submissions
Welcome to the 35th edition of Screenprints & Gigposters of the week brought to you by HALFTONE DEF STUDIOS. This weeks featured Screenprinters is the Spanish Fly Jordan Crane of Jorge Alderete. Searching through the new uploads on GIGPOSTERS my eye was caught by the Mexican influenced 50’s pop illustration. it’s such a cool twist on an era of american design. I wish his site had these for sell but from the looks of things it’s currently under construction. So for now we will just have to look and enjoy these simple color combos and rgeat overlays. Here is a list of links that correspond to the posters above from left to right, top to bottom! Support Your Local Screenprinter!
The Mustaches are a sweet-ass hand made deck set that are quite frankly One Handsome Deck Set. Ira, Teddy, Kirk, and Ernesto are cold kickin it on as a one color(black) on on all natural decks. Something tells me if chocolate or girl skateboards saw these, they would scoop them up, throw a logo on there and be done with it. The Mustaches logo is pretty hot as well too, definitely should stencil that on the top!
Check out the site www.themustaches.com to see detail and possibly purchase $$$.
Our good buddy chad over at EYESWIDEAWAKE.COM sent me a link to this awesome new independent movie called “Died Young Stayed Pretty - A Movie About Rock Posters” and from the looks of the trailer, I think Im gonna like it. But seriously, this is like hella crazy, that someone noticed enough to actually want to make a movie about the people who make the posters. The film is currently only screening in Canada but features some familiar designers in the likes of Print Mafia, Methane, Stainboy and more. Im very excited to see it and we could be looking at another Jacksonville screening…Maybe…not. Im going to contact them asap so we’ll see. But Ill keep you rock poster heads out there posted until then. check the trailer and thanks chadwick.
“DYSP is a candid look at the underground poster culture in North America. This unique documentary examines the creative spirit that drives these indie graphic artists. They pick through the dregs of America’s schizophrenic culture and piece them back together. The artists push further into the pulp to grab the attention of passersby, plastering art that’s both vulgar and intensely visceral onto the gnarled surfaces of the urban landscape. The film gives us intimate look at some of the giants of this modern subculture. Outside of their own circle, they’re virtually unknown. But within their ranks they make up an army of bareknuckle brawlers, publicly arguing the aesthetic merits of octopus imagery and hairy 70s porn stars. They’ve created their own visual language for describing the spotty underbelly of western civilization and they’re not shy about throwing it in the face of polite society. Along the way, they manage to create posters that are strikingly obscene, unflinchingly blasphemous and often quite beautiful.”
Mr. P Carter sent these over the old twitter the other day after finding them on the Kid Robot Message Board. Now normally I don’t approve of big companies getting in on the wheat pasting, but when the graphics are this dope and from the likes of Joel Ledbetter and the 123KLAN, I can’t resist. I must say, I would love to get my hands on a couple of these pasters. There are several other artist in the series but all the info I could find so far is that These posters are part of the campaign for the new Nike Sportswear in Mexico City. It’s the first store of it’s kind in Latin America, so to celebrate the event the artists made a 4.5 square meter live art installation in the Nike Sportswear Store. If anyone gets anymore info on it, hit us up so we can add to the post. Check the links .
Welcome to the 34th edition of Screenprints & Gigposters of the week brought to you by HALFTONE DEF STUDIOS. This weeks featured Screenprinters is the twisted romance of jordan Crane of RED INK LIKE BLOOD. Saw these prints on OMG POSTERS and fell in love with not only the subject matter but the detail, size, and color combos. These things range from 11×17 to 26×40 which is freakin huge. And most of them are 4-5 colors and a couple 7’s. The prices also range a bit as well but then again, these are art prints not gigposters, so its expected. Im a little short winded on this post so just check them and you’ll see what I mean with these. Here is a list of links that correspond to the posters above from left to right, top to bottom! Support Your Local Screenprinter!
I was checkin the old myspace for the first time in about a month and saw that DOLLA had posted a video by Daniel with tons of footage of Orlando street Art featuring Dolla, UAW, Bulius, and many more. There are some pretty fresh stencils up in there and from the looks of things someone got up pretty good on huge billboard. Check it out and mad props to Danny boy, shit is ill. Anyone wanna make a Video of Jax Street art? Joey…
Welcome to the 33rd edition of Screenprints & Gigposters of the week brought to you by HALFTONE DEF STUDIOS. This weeks featured Screenprinters is none other than the South Carolina Duo of Nick and Sara of THE HALF AND HALF. I first laid eyes on these wonderful prints on a family reunion trip to Columbia South Carolina, and seeing them at a cool little hipster shop in five points made the weekend for me! I must have stood there and stared at them for a good 20 minutes while Marisa shopped only to find out later that their studio was right above the store. And to also prove a point about how small the world is, we were only about two degrees of separation from knowing each other anyway. A former co-worker of mine knows them very well also. So know that you’ve got the back story, here we are. Get a good look at this awesomeness cause you might get to see them at PTS as well. Here is a list of links that correspond to the posters above from left to right, top to bottom! Support Your Local Screenprinter!
So yeah, Im a big fat dummy for not only not turning in my piece on time but also for missing the show entirely. But luckily Varick and Joey and Madeleine and Brian Gray all went and all took awesome photos. So if you missed it like me, you can see them on their sites. So go check em out and once again, big props to clay for keeping the show intact through the drama. Next year, Ime and the kidd are bringing the fire fo sho!
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