There is always the saying the gift that keeps on giving. Do you have someone you know that loves posters? Do they have a nice collection going? Would they love for you to add another to their collection?

Check out the top poster by Ty Mattson. It is just one of many over at Lift Up Nashville and the $10 you spend on it goes towards helping out in Nashville from the recent floods. They have a lot of other posters but that one is my favorite. Go check them out. Get a cool poster and help out. 12x18 and printed on a digital press.

If you have slightly deeper pockets and/or a love for Hatch Show Prints you can pick up their poster. It is $100 (100% goes to flood relief) but it is hand printed in an edition of 250 from woodcuts (no new age digital presses here). That store also has a version of Ty's that is 18x24 if you want to fill your walls a little easier.

Go get 1 or 2 or 5 and help Nashville out

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I have been meaning to get this posted for awhile, but I have been way too lazy.

This great print of a Yeti might look a little familiar to you. It was sent to me from Gregory who made the great alphabet print from before. We'd been chatting back and forth about print making and a set of 3 of these showed up in my mail. One as a xylene transfer (like the alphabet poster) and 2 block prints. This was his first try at cutting lino and I think it came out really good.

Now I just gotta figure out where to put it. It looks good right there on my desk, but it wouldn't survive there for long.

Check out his etsy store as well, looks like he has been working on his lino more and has some cards up as well.

Thanks Gregory!

I pulled this fantastic link out of my "blog it!" folder tonight, and it seemed to just fit for todays post. Meet Hello Jenuine. I found her site and blog quite awhile ago, but I am glad I waited to post it. One because like I said, it felt like the perfect post for today, and two, because she has more things posted since the last time I was there.

Her illustrations are great and really fit in with my current theme of drawings I have been working on as well. Except she actually gets them out of the sketchbook and prints them. Often it seems like she is using gocco (oh how I would like to get my hands on a gocco set...).

Go check out her work, and check out her store as well with some of her items for sale. Lots of great things to see and it really inspires me to get some stuff down on paper. Clarify that, ink on paper, not just sketches.

Oh, also, she seems to like bears since a few of her different illustrations and posts involve it. Never hurts.

 Another great poster to feature today. The Camera Poster #3 by Rod over at The Post Family.

I happen to have their Camera Poster #2 hanging over my bookshelf and I am looking at it right now. Love my poster and was a great gift from my wife. This new one starts adding some other cameras into the mix, looks like a 8mm camera on the bottom middle and some other compacts. I can't tell for sure, but it looks like a Brownie Starmite in the top left corner too. That one is on my list of real ones to obtain.

These posters look great if you are just an avid photographer, collect vintage cameras, or just love great posters (guilty of all three). Pick one up today, signed edition of 250, $30.

You might have seen this up yesterday until I took it down and replaced it with the video. Still wanted to have this one up though. Today I'm at an Adobe conference learning lots of cool new things.  Maybe it will lead to some great new ideas. Hopefully one of these days I have one of those ideas, and it makes me a very happy man (rich would be good too, but I can settle with just happy).

Entrance On the Paulina Street Side

I actually got to meet and chat with Jay Ryan for a bit. Very Awesome. Didn't know we were doing the "make faces" thing in the photo so I look kind of like a dweeb (I also think this might be the first time some of you readers have seen me, my secret is out!)

Sadly the booth was busy and I didn't have a chance to inquire about her undead. Coincidentally there is a bear right there and I also like the living dead...hmmmmm

Happy Monday everyone!

So I was actually able to make it up to the Renegade Craft Fair this weekend and I am planning on doing a much more involved post on the event this week, but since I am pretty tired, just a quick recap for now.

Plenty more pictures to come.

One thing this makes me want to get up off my ass more then ever and start working on some stuff. I need to find a way to screenprint here, top of the list. I am currently building a small shelf thing, and coating the new desktop I built, and like 9 other projects, but it is not enough!

I think Ork has made their way on to every major design blog once or twice, and they will probably keep on showing up for quite awhile. There have been imitators, but they were just that and can't stand up to the real thing.

The original Chicago poster was created by Jenny Beorkrem when she wanted a city neighborhood poster for her home. When the search came up empty, she made her own. So she made some up to sell as well and then started on the other cities. A lot of the major cities in the US are available now are available in a more mass produced poster and in a screenprint. Pick one up of your favorite city today!

I could devote an entire week just to Jay Ryan (might have to do that one of these days...) so instead I have decided just to pick one of his posters. This is the poster used to advertise a showing of Ferris Bueller's Day Off in Chicago.

This is one of my favorite posters of his and it is hanging in my hallway right now. The print recreates the movement and the overall tone of that scene as the car flies out of Cameron's garage perfectly. Add in some of his hand made typography that he is famous for and there you have it,  a great all around print. Jay has a new book coming out soon and will be going on a book tour for it as well. I am hoping to maybe meet him at the Renegade Craft Fair in Chicago in a few weeks.

This is the twin poster to the one I posted earlier in the "Design Ignites Change" series by Marian Bantjes.

It is a silver foil stamp on metallic copper paper, and it is just as beautiful as the first poster in this series. They just look so good in person, either apart or together as a set. The detail that Marian puts into her work and her custom typography is just amazing. It also doesn't hurt that they took some fantastic photos of these to really showcase the poster. The photos look amazing, and the posters look even better once you get them.

Just like the other poster, it was used to raise funds for the AED and just like the other is also sold out. I am so happy to be able to have these in my poster collection.

Time for one of my favorite posters This beauty above is by the amazing Marian Bantjes. It was created for the Academy for Education Development (AED) to promote how important it is to have good design in the development process. The poster says "Design Ignites Change" and it is laser cut from the paper. No ink is used, just some slight browning from the laser burns around the design.

This poster is stunning in person and I am very happy to say that I have this poster hanging in my bedroom right now. I can't wait until I have a place to hang it near a window and go for the see through effect. I have it in a frame with a cream background so it looks very minimalist but so sexy at the same time, it also looks great hanging right next to it's twin poster that is Part 2 of the project.

Originally, you could donate money to the AED and get a poster in return, so not only did you get a great piece of art but you helped out the organization too. Sadly they are sold out and were a very limited edition.

I found these posters by Hybrid Home quite awhile ago, but as soon as I started to pick out the posters I wanted to feature I went searching through my archives for it. They are titled Visible Robot and Visible Ghost and are both by Brian Flynn.

The great thing about the Visible Ghost print is it is printed with glow in the dark ink.

The robot print reminds me a lot of The Gigantic Robot  book I posted about a little while ago (and received more recently) and just like that one also makes me think about the move The Incredibles.

Above is the "Thing I like" Poster from Richard Perez at Skinny Ships.

Richard and I have some similar likes, since I am a big fan of all of them listed, except VHS tapes, can't really say I like those. Not only is the list fantastic but the illustration style works so well with it. It could work well in my office or in a child's room, very versatile.

Check out some of his other work at his website. I also included a screenshot of his site because I just love the huge HELLO THERE. It feels really personal and works with his clean and simple design.

This poster is on my "BUY" list for sure, and hopefully I can make that happen before it is sold out. 18x24 4-color screenprint, Edition of 100, $35 + Shipping . Go check it out.

Above are some great illustrations from Scott Balmer . He is a freelance illustrator from the UK.

My favorite image is the Masked Avengers at the top. The texture he uses in the image really makes it stand out compared to if he had just drawn the characters with simple shapes.

The answer to the last one? Yes, I do think bears poop in the woods. Your thoughts? Nothing like a little chest hair typography to make you think.

Above is a great Xylene transfer/print created by the Etsy seller beauchamping. It's a bit of a twist on the alphabet poster and there is a bit more to the joke, and you can click through to Gregory's page to see the rest of it and purchase it for $75.

I am really into this poster because of the fact that it is an update on an old classic. So tired of the A is for Apple, and Z is for Zebra. Time to give some love to Arrow, Georgia, Jupiter, Xbox, and some others.

Yeti and Zeppelin are by far my favorites

The Illustrated Guide to the Amazing Feats of the Night Sky is a pocket guide by the great illustrator Jez Burrows. It opens matchbook style and on the inside is a guide to the great celestial events that occurred or will occur in 2009. I know the year is a bit over half done, but that doesn't mean you can't see what is coming up for the fall and winter (fall is one of the best times to lay out and watch the stars).

The last two images are of the Gocco print he created to go along with the guide and sadly those are all sold out. A fantastic print that I'll have to keep my eye out to obtain by other means. The guide itself can be purchased from the Tiny Showcase for $5

Jez has a huge amount of other great work as well so I can't say this is the last time his art is going to show up here.

Now, I will try and keeping my stars/space/sky/etc posts to a minimum because even though this blog is named after a constellation, I don't want it to become too themed. However, when print looks that good, it is going to show up for sure.

If you are someone that has been talking to me lately, you know block printing has been on my mind. I am currently trying to teach myself and it is actually going quite well. I should have my first print done soon and will have some up for sale. I have been scouring the web and etsy for some inspiration for future prints (and I have a few ideas lined up already).

In my searching I came across these city block prints by Mark Andrew Weber. This stuff is amazing, utterly amazing. I know from doing lithography, and screenprinting, and now block printing how hard it is to do a large image, and this guy is taking size to the next level.

The first 3 images are from his current city he is working on, Paris. Where as the last two are from Amsterdam, and they show the finished print and the block. So, the Paris lino is as big as an entire room and is around 60" x 70". That is so huge! Not only is he cutting and printing something so large, but he is also doing typography with it, and really cool type at that. When he finishes prints he sells them in his store and I will have to keep a lookout for when Paris is up for sale (my wife loves France and Europe) since the one photo looks like it might be close to done.

I know I already said it, but the type on these are great and they are just enormous (they are so big I had to say it twice!).

They make my 4"x5" block look quite puny. 

These great Kokeshi Illustrations are from my friend Sherri over at Riri Willow. She has been working on a project on her blog where she does a creative thing everyday and posts it up. Not only that but I have been featured on there a few times with some of my post it note sketches that I doodle at work.

The top photo is me on the left, our friend Laura, and then Sherri's Boyfriend Greg. Plus, with the bonus me as a Pirate (how awesome is that!), and then Sherri herself with what I like to refer to as vintage Sherri (her old style of hair that was really cool).

Great illustrations and be sure to go check out the rest of her daily creativity at her blog.

I spotted this Futurama Vinyl mini Series on Notcot two days ago and I can't stop thinking about them. They are made the the king of vinyl figures, Kidrobot.

I am not a stranger to the Kidrobot figures, but I have managed to hold off temptation almost until now. The only exception being my dunny Ribeye who lives on my desk (and I mean how could I avoid buying him with my carnivore diet). I have been tempted many times since then, dunnys, munnys, labbits (OH MY!), but never like this.

I have a special place in my brain where Futurama lives. It is one of my all time favorite cartoons. Yes, Simpsons is great, Family Guy was a passing fad for me, and Futurama will live on forever. This is partially I think because it ended on a high note. Their movies since then have been good, and it is coming back on the air, but I have heard not with the original cast, and that will make the first episodes last as classics. The characters are so deep, the story lines are fantastic, and dare I say it...yes... the show has made me cry (a manly cry though).

But back to the subject at hand. These awesome vinyls. People got their first look at them at the SDCC and some people actual have some since they gave a few out at the Comic Con. They come out next month. I will have to splurge and get a few. They are blind boxed, which means its a grab bag. You could get the amazing Bender, Mom, or Slurms McKenzie, you won't know! I know which ones I want, however that would be the entire set, and cost me way too much cash (if I got the entire set in one shot, I would hop on a plane to Vegas, then and there).

Ribeye will get a few friends though, for sure.

Photos are from NotCot

What do you get when you cross a love of zombies AND robots? Well, you accidentally stumble across the work of Travis Pitts and zom-bot.com.

To be more truthful I didn't stumble across him at that exact address, I actually came across the print above on Image Kind and wanted to see more of his work. Next thing I know I am looking at the illustrator who has made a good amount of great threadless designs, and countless other great illustrations.

Love his illustration style and the ties into vintage comics and advertisements, posters, and screenprinting. I really want to get the above poster (anyone want to send me one? I'll get you the address...) and his work is one I will be keeping any eye on. 

This is the next book I am going to buy (or pre-order...)

The Gigantic Robot is a new book by Tom Gauld. It is a 32 page board book about a gigantic robot. It has a silver cover and features 2 color printing throughout the book. You can find some more photos of it on Tom's Flickr page.

A lot of people have sad that robots were a passing fad, but I really could care less. I loved robots before they were a "fad" and still love them to this day. It probably stems from almost any boy's childhood dream to either own a robot, be a robot, or just dance like a robot. All of this is just further reinforced with Futurama from a few years ago, which is still one of my favorite animated comedies (OK, i'll say it, cartoons, I am a man, and I love cartoons, but everyone around me already knows that). Nothing like having a best friend that is a robot. The drawings in this sort of remind me a bit from the one episode with the "What If" Machine, and Bender asked "What if I was 500 feet tall?" and the beginning sequence was a little like this with a huge structure holding him up. 

I am also feeling a bit of The Incredibles here with the different robots Syndrome created to destroy the Supers. All great things to be reminded of when this book arrives.

Overseas customers can by it from the first link, and those of us in the US can buy it from Buenaventura Press for $17 plus shipping. I'll be adding it to my collection soon.