Russ Has Been Busy.

Russ - remember that guy? - has effectively been living in a cave for the last few months with his puppy and his computer toiling away on a premiere motion piece for Release the Hounds and their client Nooka. Its finally done and its pretty stunning.

Upcoming Show: Due Process at Gallery 5

Friday, April 3rd
First Friday Opening Reception

Due Process: An educational exhibit about the many processes of printmaking
Curated by: Kevin Orlosky
First Friday Opening Reception April 3rd 7-11pm
Gallery 5 RVA

Exhibit runs through April 28th

Printmaking is one of the most versatile forms of art making. It has been used by artists for thousands of years. It has had tremendous advancements over the years while the traditional techniques are still being used. Artists are usually drawn to its methodology, intimacy, and subtlety. One advantage to printmaking is that prints can be editioned so that multiples of the same image may be sold. Because of this, printmaking has been used in the reproduction market. Unfortunately outside of the fine art and collector world, a reproduction is what is generally thought of when someone mentions the word "print." This is mostly due to the size of the greedy art reproduction industry. "Due Process" aims to end this stigma that has hindered the reputation of fine art prints to the general public. Fine art prints are original artwork that has been produced by the artist's hand.
Due Process will showcase not only the end result of the artist's works, but will exhibit and explain the steps, tools and materials involved in each print process.

- Gallery5arts.org

We worked very hard on our submission for this show and it turned out pretty well. I didn't have time to photograph the final print properly, so here's the digital version. You'll have to come to the show to see it in person. It's a whopping 40in x 26in! Way too big. Never again! Come to the show this friday anyway and you can swipe you're own exclusive Team Eight Press print during our live print tutorial. Five designs to choose from, each one from a different artists involved in the following piece. I'll post how they turned out after the show.

So here's the skinny on this big-ass poster. Five of us contributed to the illustration, Matt Deans, Spencer Hansen, Jim Callahan, Kelly Alder, Rawn Gandy, and some consultation by Russ Guatier. It should be self explanatory the chaos that ensued.

This poster is titled "Cross-Corporate Synergetics"


Details, clockwise:

Matt Deans:


Spencer Hansen:


Jim Callahan:


Kelly Alder:


And Rawn Gandy:


It was epic, so come out and see it in person.

Flashback - 2007 Calendar Pages

So a few years back Team Eight gathered together 13 artists and had each one design a page in our 2007 silk screened calendar. Each page was printed as a stand alone, 12.5 x 19 inch poster and then loosely bound as a stack. In a flurry of ink and squeegees, we printed 200 of each.
That was over two years ago and we've recently rediscovered a few still sitting on our shelves. Seeing these 13 amazing posters and remembering all the hard work that went into them, we've decided to pop them up on etsy for anyone who didn't get a chance to get their hands on them two years ago. Each month we'll toss up a new one, starting naturally with January, by Becky Cloonan, and the cover, by Russ Guatier.
See 'em here and get them at our etsy store.

Russ Gautier and Matt Deans Print!!

We promised you Horn would make a comeback, but don't worry. It's okay though!
Matt pitched in and we resurrected Russ from the dead to print this Team Eight classic, which they designed together as one of our first t-shirts way back in ot three. Check it out, it's our second shirt printed in the new t-shirt studio, but the first we were able to sneak any footage of. We'll be posting it on the site for sale soon, but in the mean time, check out the pics of these two doofs printing like they were born to it.