#benjamin lande

[brokehorrorfan]

Garageland has released two new prints: The Shining by Xray and Twin peaks: Fire Walk with Me by Benjamin Lande. Each design is limited to 75, measures 18x24, and costs $30.

[sceneflyers]

Now this is what you expect, when you think of “scene flyers” right? This stunning piece from more carefree times was made for a Parkway Drive tour in spring 2009. That means one and a half year after they released their second album Horizons but still almost the same amount of time until they returned with an enormous bang, by releasing Deep Blue in the summer of 2010 and took album charts all over the world by storm. Another band that were still far from becoming one of modern melodic hardcore’s (and also Sumerian Records’) biggest flagship were Stick To Your Guns, who also still had one and a half year until they released The Hope Division which led them to some mainstream success.

The design of this poster looks outright hilarious. I don’t know exactly what’s happening here. There are some dudes and a woman in the front with some apparently bad intentions (I don’t think I want to know what exactly is happening graciously concealed by the plant in the front) and a van with a surf board near the palm tree in the back. It almost looks like a trip to the beach gone terribly wrong, maybe it’s a movie reference I don’t get? 

However, I can definitely tell you who is responsible for this illustration. At that time, I spent a lot of time on emptees (later renamed to mintees), where almost every graphic designer affiliated with the alternative music scene had an account and uploaded his/her designs, e.g. Dan Mumford, Godmachine, Michael Shantz (who did most of the old Drop Dead shirt designs) and a guy called Benjamin Lande, who also designed shirts for Whitechapel or Dance Gavin Dance. Unfortunately, he has deleted all his old stuff, but I’m 99,9% sure it’s his work, because of his unique drawing style and his love for white/pink gradients.

[gravemouth]