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Halloween 2008 (downstairs)

The rated time limits are actual time limits from each maze in the book. I never knew that maze completion was ever so "official".

It occurs to me now, uploading each of these here, that I missed an opportunity for some (somewhat) hidden jokes... Each one says very small (and even smaller on the printed flier) "wear a costume or we will eat your brains" which is fine, and I like that, (because what kind of jerk shows up to a halloween party without a costume? one that deserves to have his/her brains eaten) however I should have changed that line on each flier to something like "wear a costume or we will massacre your family in the woods" and "wear a costume or we will cut you up with a chainsaw" and so on and so forth... oh well... lesson learned. These are still pretty great though, and I love interactive fliers.

I made one version that was more the "poster" for the night that we hung up around the club.. it's the Teenage Werewolf one, however the maze part is blacked out so it looks like he's wearing pants and a jacket. Since the maze version of it was the last one that we released before Halloween, that was the big reveal for this poster. Again, I don't think anyone was really paying any attention.

Halloween is the best.

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"I can't believe I made the whole thing"

I had been collecting old Sears and JC Penney Christmas catalogs because that is a normal thing that everybody collects (like Beanie Babies or Coca Cola memorabilia) and one day while brainstorming HOW to make a Pre-Thanksgiving Dance Party flier, I came across the above image in one of those catalogs.

The stocked fridge looked great, the colors, the background dining room, all of it awesome... but it certainly doesn't scream DANCE PARTY. I mean I guess it does catch one's eye - like... "What the fuck is this about?" and then you read it and whatever, but I've just never been too excited about this flier... I do like the horn of plenty illustration though, and the NO FOOD PROVIDED is kind of funny, but BLEH!

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I forget who's idea it was to have an "urban" flier for this night, but this was my attempt at just that. Bikini girl, hooptie, snowman, wreath... This is just like all the fliers that you see in the big cities. Right?

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Men and magic.

This is one of my favorites. It's a total rip off of an old D&D player's manual titled "Men and Magic". The "Age Requirement" still makes me laugh. These were printed on a rough light tan card stock (just like the covers of the original manuals)... a detail that went largely unnoticed (just like the reference to the source material, which I don't think many people were even aware of).

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Future Primitive.

Found this image, which is beautiful, it was a book cover I believe. I think it was even called "The Future" so I scrubbed all of the original text off, placed all new text, and called it a day. Now that I think of it, THIS might have been the first flier I designed on my own.

The idea for the night itself was spacey prog rock from (as you can see) 1970 and beyond. I don't think they wanted to play anything modern at all. I thought I was being quite clever with my "Take a step forward, back in time" line.

Sci Fi and nerd stuff always played pretty big with fliers I did for Battlecat and Vehicles. I don't know if they ever really cared one way or another, I never got much direction from either one of them, but I think they were always happy with my results.