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The menu bar isn't up yet, but it will be soon. Content is slim but the posts will keep coming in the next couple of weeks. I didn't tell Frans that it was going live until after the fact--so I hope that he is properly mad at me for lighting a fire under both our asses to speed up the workflow.

If anyone feels compelled to contribute to this goof-off blog just let me know. It's purely for fun and celebration of clean line-art and Miller/Darrow ultraviolence in sequential satire.

May Day Poster Printing

These came out so well people were not aware that they were hand screened. We also printed the same bandanna from the illustration.







May Day poster design. (Sorry don't have scans of the actual print yet.)


Printing the bandanna


Wearing the bandanna.

Polysics, getting me through the day

OMFG!!! This is what is getting me through work right now. That girl owns that bass guitar!

Spread the Word

Here are two new ones I did for Santa Barbara Independent and for BusinessWeek. The first Illustration was sort of difficult in concept since it's about religion in schools, but I was not allowed to use any kind of iconography (i.e. crosses, bibles, churches, etc.). The client decided to go with the sketch that showed how religious organizations are trying to get young kids into their after school groups which is through peer pressure.

The second illo was a quick one in that I had 24 hours from sketches to finish. Luckily it was conceptually simple and the client just wanted a few narratives. The finished piece shows several ways that companies are are creating incentives for those who have been laid off. What's shown below is a very savvy man who is taking up these businesses on their offers of refunds for recently purchased items and clinics not charging for medical bills.




-Barry

www.barrybruner.com

Spencer's Revamped Site.

I recently revamped my website. I actually had fun doing it. I don't know if that means there is something wrong with me, that I enjoyed tweaking code or if it just means I like myself too much because I enjoyed looking at my own work over and over again.

Either way the mouse over scrolling fields I built on either side of the portfolio sections are a blast!

Check it out at team8press.com/print.

BusinessWeek Illustration

As of late I've been doing some work for BusinessWeek. Here's a recent one about marketing towards Hispanic consumers.


-Barry
www.barrybruner.com

Screen Printed Show Posters, will the fame go to their little heads?

Since the late 1990's (remember when?) we've watched the return and rise of the screen printed show poster in a big way. By the mid-2000's (or mid-oughts) design outfits were popping up left and right who were able to make it by doing almost exclusively screen printed show posters. Show posters tend to be wildly unlimiting for the artist and designers creating them, so of course this produced tons of amazing examples of art from the last decade or so that also happen to be show posters. Its become a movement of sorts, spawning things like websites dedicated to only show posters, see Gigposters as well as their very own convention called Flatstock.

All this and outfits like Aesthetic Apparatus and the Bird Machine definitely played a role in exciting and inspiring us enough to kick off Team Eight in the first place.

Well these posters have come a long way and its not unlike witnessing one of your favorite bands finally make it big. I don't know who watches music videos anymore, compared to a live show or listening to an album, they can't help but seem a little cheesy, forced and awkward. Maybe we're all too busy enjoying the screen printed art instead. Either way the Thermals have a new video up, you can see it here: Thermals on Pitchfork. Its one of those bands-in-a-box videos, but plastering the walls are tons of amazing screen printed show posters! Talk about hitting the big time, they practically steal the show (the posters I mean). I can spot examples by tons of my favorite artists from the previously mentioned Aesthetic Apparatus to our good friend El Jefe (thanks for pointing this video out by way).

I guess we can expect to see posters going into rehab, shaving their heads, or trying to adopt babies soon. Or whatever it is you do when you're famous now a days.

Here's a probably illegal screen capture from the video. (don't kill us pitchfork):