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With Oxford band Foals finally playing my hometown, it was incredibly important to me that I get this one right. As a major fan from day one, I needed to create a striking image that fit and repesented the band and their sensibility well. The cobra arm imagery was inspired by a book I saw about 15 years ago that featured public health/PSA adverts, flyers and posters from the 60’s and 70’s. One of the posters featured a horrific illustration of the effects of taking LSD: a young boy staring in horror at his upturned arms which had taken the form of snakes. I wanted surreal, narcotic imagery with an almost religious “stigmata” bent to it as well. This will be my first screen-printed poster since 2005’s Mos Def/Talib Kweli poster. Available in a signed, numbered edition of 50.

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The Walkmen are one of my favorite bands. So for this poster for their show at the Granada Theater in Dallas I tried to conjure up a bit of that smokey, Weimar Republic cabaret feel that I get from their music. Whether I succeeded is debatable but the band seemed to like them. Available as a handsomely-printed 11×17 full-color print on heavy stock.

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Dan Webb, a singer-songwriter from Australia, contacted me in winter 2011/12 to create a poster for a mini-tour he was doing in New Zealand. This one was a lot of fun as I was able to employ a lot of early 80s new wave airbrush flourishes and some nice hard geometry, fresh-colors, etc. Available as a handsomely-printed 11×17 full-color print on heavy stock.

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A poster for English band Friendly Fires show at the Granada Theater in Dallas, October 2011. First and foremost, I wanted to start and stay with a bright color palette to mirror the light, almost tropical sounds of their newest album Pala. This is also how I ended up incorporating feathers into the final piece ala the album’s cover. Very 70’s sci-fi and weightless and breathless. The tone and the textures I used are a reference to Rene Laloux’s ultra-bizarro 1973 sci-fi flick Fantastic Planet which, if you have not yet seen, I suggest you remedy that.

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For Cold War Kids 2010 Sacramento show, I wanted to both play off their name and play with an idea I’d been toying with for a while: a distressed “wall of type.” I scoured the internet for help to properly render the gig’s information into several different languages, which is easier than it sounds. Rather than just run each through Google Translate, I wanted them to each be syntactically correct and housed individually in their own specific styles, the final effect (hopefully) being that of years of wheatpasted posters built up and torn down on an alley wall in East Berlin. This one was a lot of fun to put together.