The poster below is the most recent we’ve created for Mike Birbiglia and his show in Indianapolis, IN. We were super honored when they asked us to create another print based off the first one we did. It’s a three color print and was a blast to work on, as usual.
MeWithoutYou was kind enough to let us create a poster for their show in Columbia this weekend. It will land in the shop on Saturday after the show. For anybody making room on their wall, this guy is 3 colors at 24” x 18”. Get em while their hot because this was a limited run of 50.
-R-
We’ve been sitting on this for a while so it feels good to finally spill the beans about our latest poster for Silver Screen Society. If you’ve ever seen the film, you know there is tons of visual information to digest. We had a blast picking through it, pausing, sketching, pausing, sketching, pausing, talking, pausing and wondering. When the film was concluded, like most folks, we were confused. After a bit of research and digging we realized what baby eternity was trying to say.
We interpreted the monolith as a learning tool given to us by somebody else out there in the great black wonder. This tool, however, was misused by the folks it was given to. The monkey folk used it for hunting, then their jealousy turned it to a weapon. The intellectuals were given the knowledge to discover new places, but used it for financial gain and one-up-man-ship. And alas, our faithful cosmonauts were given Hal9000 and used it as a tool of speculation and fear. When Dave passes through the monolith he accepts his rebirth and comes to terms with his surroundings and his purpose.
Our execution is a vague reference to all the shiny objects we’ve used and built to get ahead in life but caused us to miss our divine purpose of understanding our world and gaining self-actualization. In short, all the stuff societies had built or discovered in the film was essentially lost in space.
If Kubrick and the author of the book couldn’t agree on what the movie meant, then maybe we didn’t get it either. Hope you guys dig it and hit us up on twitter to tell us what you think.
-R-
Whoaa… Check out this poster from the ladies from Chuck Town, Stitch. They’ve got chops. Go check out their work, drool over some letterpress goodies and covet their awesome shop if you’ve got a minute.
-R-
