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You’re digging the “VINYL IS KILLING THE MP3″ t-shirts and slipmats, but what’s next? We’re holding a contest to see what awesome new product you think should carry Chunklet’s “VINYL IS KILLING THE MP3″ trademark! Submit your ideas in the comment box on our Facebook page by January 31st. Our five favorites will receive an exclusive “VINYL IS KILLING THE MP3″ 12 x 12″ print, not available on our site! And who knows, maybe you’ll see your dream-design in print sooner than you think!
Happy New Year from all of us at Soundscreen Design! This year, treat your records to our “Vinyl is Killing the MP3 Industry” slip mat. Coined by our friends at Chunklet, these quirky slip mats are printed in the USA and made of dense felt that wont leave fuzz on your records.
New Year means new gear, and for 2012 we’ll be coming out with a new line of T-Shirts designed by Gordon Hull, founder of NY by way of Paris, super chic multimedia and fashion collective, Surface to Air. The new festival-style is entitled “Manifest Destiny” and features designs for seven artists – current and retired. Major Lazer, Washed Out, The Rapture, The Jesus and Mary Chain, T.Rex, Wooden Shjips, and Real Estate designs will all be printed on soft organic cotton 100% produced and printed in the USA. “Manifest Destiny” will be going into production this month and gracing our website by the end of January so check back to get your order in soon!
Don’t forget, we’ve still got a few limited edition Musician as Designer shirts by Twin Sister front woman, Andrea Estella.Andrea Estella. Stay tuned to SSD for more Musician as Designer releases from the likes of Devendra Banhart and members of !!!.
Celebrate the season in style! We’ve got brand new gear right around the corner, but we’re offering one last chance to save on the stuff you love: use the code “Holiday12” at checkout and save $25 off any order $100 or more before December 25th.
SSD X BITNB
Blood is the New Black is an LA based T-shirt line that displays the work of emerging artists, designers and photographers. We have curated a series for their holiday collection titled Genrefication. The Collection features four designers & six original designs, with each design representing an homage to a specific musical genre of the artists’ choice.
Nick Zinner
Witchhouse
Southside Chicago Soul
Nick Zinner is a founding member of Yeah Yeah Yeahs and Head Wound City, as well as an accomplished photographer with 3 books released to date. He resides in New York City.
Hisham Bharoocha
Pysch Rock
Death Metal
Hisham Akira Bharoocha is an artist currently based in Brooklyn, New York. He concentrates on creating music for his bands Soft Circle and the Boredoms, visual art, and photography.
EE Storey
Protest Folk
EE Storey (born in NY, 1981) is an independent Montreal-based art director, graphic designer and illustrator. Storey and her company, Storey Elementary, work with a variety of clients and collaborators, varying from bands and record labels to community organizations and social justice campaigns.
Rob Carmichael
Krautrock
Rob Carmichael is a graphic designer based in Brooklyn, where he founded SEEN, an independent art direction and graphic design studio. SEEN designs a wide variety of material for clients in the music, publishing, film, and cultural spheres. His work at SEEN is realized in various mediums: packaging, books, posters, clothing, identities, and websites.
On the horizon:
We will have a table at the Brooklyn Comics and Graphics Festival on Sunday Dec. 3rd! Come by for special Posters, Limited Edition Tees and Books. Check out the list of exhibitors here: http://www.comicsandgraphicsfest.com/
Also check out the Musician As Designer series Tees, all on sale for just $20! The next releases are in progress and we’ll be sure to keep you posted!
The SSD 2012 collection is almost finished! New Tees from bands like T. Rex, The Jesus and Mary Chain, Major Lazer, Washed Out, The Rapture and more. Stay tuned as more details are coming soon.
Here’s wishing you a healthy and happy Thanksgiving, wherever you may be!
Fall is just around the corner and we can kick it off with Justin Pearson’s book + flexi “How to Lose Friends and Irritate People.” Only 1000 of these will be made and they’ll be shipping the end of September. The book comes in the form of two novellas and two flexi discs with tracks from Justin’s band All Leather. Head over to shop where you can sample one of the tracks and place a pre-order.
The cold weather will be here soon so stay warm with one of our hoodies or pullovers. We’re running low on some of our favorites so be sure to grab one before they’re gone. We have just a few Vinyl is Forever 05 pullovers in Medium left and our HEALTH crew neck pullover in Small is almost sold out. There are less than 5 Battles and No Age hoodies in medium left, which are both 70% off.
The Road to Rock coloring book is now available in all its 12×12 inch glory. These black and white pages are just begging to be colored! Your kids (or you- let’s be honest) will be busy for hours coloring your way through the rise of Jet Vegas to fame and stardom. Break out the crayons and order your copy here. If crayons aren’t totally your thing, we have a beautiful iPad app in the works. The app will have the entire story as well as multiple options for coloring. We’ll keep you posted on the app once we have a release date.
We’ve broken ground on the new collection, which will be designed by Gordon Hull, creative director and founder of the brand Surface to Air. Surface to Air just opened their NYC flagship store last week so be sure to check it out.
We took a bit of a summer hiatus on the Musician as Designer series but stay tuned for the next installments.
Is it really July already? Summer has been flying by for us at the Pencil Factory in Greenpoint, and we hope you’ve all been enjoying the warmth. We’ve been hard at work finishing several new projects and putting lots of older items on sale, just for you.
Stop by our shop to check out some new sales on popular items; including 50% off both Vinyl is Forever Edition 05 and the 2010 Collection. Also pick up a ReFRAME or two, our glassless poster hanging solution, now 25% off in all colors and sizes.
While you’re there, check out the awesome new layout in our shop. Now more streamlined and easier to use and navigate, it features bigger product images and a simplified shopping experience. We hope you enjoy it.
Our newest book is for the kids, literally. Road to Rock is a hilarious coloring book, which follows a fictional 80’s hair metal band named Jet Vegas as they rise to the top of rock stardom. Measuring 12”x12” and filled with the exceptional illustrations of Hero Design Studio, Road to Rock also features a double cover, so each kid can color their own cover. We’re taking pre-orders now, and will be shipping in mid-August.
We are in the process of printing the latest installment in our Musician as Designer series, featuring the work of Jonsi and Alex. Jonsi of Sigur Ros has teamed up with his longtime musical partner Alex to bring you a limited edition design printed on organic, hand numbered garments. Keep a look out for the release of this newest design, as they won’t be reprinted and are sure to go fast.
Lastly, Justin Pearson of Three One G records, The Locust and All Leather (to name a few) will be releasing a book set of two short stories, each packaged with a flexi record. Yes, a flexi. Limited to 300, these sets are sure to go fast. We’ll keep you updated as we finish printing them and make them available. In the meantime, be sure to also check out his design for Musician as Designer series, Edition 11.
If you came out to our last warehouse sale, we thank you. If not, maybe we’ll see you next time. As always thank you for your support, and happy shopping!
As we gear up for summer here in Greenpoint, the longer days of sunlight are already bearing dividends, with tons of new items in the shop and a slew of great events to share with you.
The latest installment of the Musician as Designer series comes from the legendary Sonny Kay. In his already illustrious career, Sonny founded and ran the record label Gold Standard Laboratories (GSL) for over 14 years, all the while performing in iconic bands such as Angel Hair, The VSS and Year Future. The t-shirts feature an original digital collage, screen printed with 3 colors using water-based inks on organic black garments from Alternative Apparel. Only 60 shirts in edition, move fast risk missing out.
Speaking of selling out- the previous Musician as Designer T, by non other than LCD Soundsystem’s Nancy Whang have been selling quite fast. We are completely out of sizes medium and large, so if you are a XS, S, or XL, we recommend picking up your shirt now.
We’ve got great new items from our friends over at Chunklet Magazine.
The Indie Cred Test is “everything you need to know about knowing everything you need to know.” Yes, it is actually a test. And yes, it will educate you and prove to your friends how smart you really are.
Also from Chunklet, another genius piece of cultural insight (in t-shirt form). We’re strongly in support of this statement here at SSD HQ, quite simply: Vinyl is Killing the MP3 Industry.
Former collection bands Gang Gang Dance, Battles and Fucked Up are all releasing new albums this month. Gang Gang Dance dropped their new album Eye Contact on 5/10 on 4AD, Battles will release their newest album Gloss Drop on Warp Records in June, and Fucked Up’s album David Comes to Life (Matator Records) will also be released in June as well. The entire 2009 Collection on final closeout sale, with 70% off all remaining items.
For those of you in NYC, be sure to buy tickets to Joshua Light Show: Fulldome June 3rd-June 5th. In conjunction with Brain: The Inside Story, Josh White, one of the contributors to our Artist Music Journal series, will be putting on one of his amazing light shows in the Hayden Planetarium at the American Museum of Natural History. Tickets are $40 and can be bought here. Don’t miss out on this unique opportunity.
Cheers to a great summer!
It seems that spring has finally sprung here in Brooklyn, and along with its arrival we’ve got some great new items and exclusive deals that we don’t want you to miss out on.
Right on the coattails of LCD Soundsystem’s final show (of which we are still reveling in the epicness of the show while simultaneously sincerely sad to see them go), we released the latest Musician as Designer shirt (Edition 13) by the lovely Nancy Whang. Nancy not only plays in LCD Soundsystem, but also the long time SSD faves Juan MacLean. There are only 60 in this series, featuring her original watercolor illustration digitally (yes, digitally) printed on organic Alternative Apparel garments. Get them now or forever regret missing out.
We’ve also got some great sales going on in our shop. Musician as Designer shirts by Sadie Laska and Lucky Dragons have been added to the sale this week, at 30% off. Our 2010 Collection oversized totes are still only $10/each, and all 12 installments in Volume One of the Artist Music Journals series are only $8 each. We would be bad friends if we didn’t warn you that the low stock that remains for the Daniel Higgs, Brian Roettinger (+ No Age), and EYE installments.
After an awesome pop up shop at Giant Robot LA in March we were able to get back some previously sold out items, including VIF ED 04 Crew T in Medium, the Beach House Hoodie in Medium from our 2010 Collection, and the Health Crew T in both Small and Medium. Make sure to check out our store to see what’s popped up!
For all of you in NYC, this Friday (April 22nd), Pantha du Prince is performing at Good Units / Hudson Hotel. We will have all of his 2010 Collection designs on sale, designed by the infamous Hisham Bharoocha, so be sure to stop by and say hi. Doors are at 10 pm.
Also for those in NYC, the talented Musician as Designer alum Tim Cohen will be performing with his band The Fresh and Onlys on Saturday (April 23rd) at the Music Hall of Williamsburg. Tickets are still available, and we hope to see you there.
Last but not least, be sure to sign up for the brand new RCRD Deals. Soundscreen Design will have an exclusive discounted package available next week. Head over to RCRD Deals for more info.
Our messenger bag with a fortified vinyl pocket is fully available online in our shop and in several local bike shops we love. If you’d like to see it in person, you can head over to any of the following:
King Kog
453 Graham Ave., Brooklyn, NY 11222
Ride Brooklyn
468 Bergen Street, Brooklyn, NY 11217
We’ll also be donating a bag for a winner at the Monstertrack race, taking place this Saturday March 12th. The race is specifically designed for bike messengers. In its 11th year now, we’re excited to participate in one of the largest messenger races in the world.
Friday 3/11
Pre Registration at Second Chance Saloon, 659 Grand Street, Brooklyn, NY
Saturday 3/12
MonsterTrack and Alleycat Race Registration 12:30-2:30
At the Grime, 191 Henry St., New York City
Thanks to Victor for asking us to participate, and good luck to all the racers!
We’ve been hard at work here in frosty, snow covered Greenpoint on an abundance of new products, collaborations and projects that we’re excited to share with you. Make sure to sign up for our monthly newsletter to stay updated on all our new endeavors, as well as the occasional exclusive sales just for our subscribers.
We’re super psyched to introduce our Record Messenger Bag. Practical and spacious, the bag not only stands up to the demands of the most intense rider, but also safely protects up to 10 LPs in a fortified interior. No more ruining the corners and jackets of your records when attempting to bike home from your local shop. But why stop there? To boot, each bag has a unique recycled vinyl lining sourced from highway billboard advertisements and reflective outer printing to keep you safe at night.
With only 150 produced in our first run, get yours today from our shop.
Artist Music Journal 12: Yamantaka Eye (of Boredoms)
Yamantaka Eye’s Artist Music Journal is available now and is not to be missed. Eye’s is the twelfth and final edition of Volume 1, and we could not think of a more fitting artist to close out the series. Eye used his journal as an opportunity to design for dozens of imaginary bands, including original album art and vinyl details. One of our very favorite releases in the series, AMJ 12 is available now, and as always, limited to 1000 copies.
Vinyl is Forever Edition 05 Still in Stock
We’ve just discovered a few “lost boxes” in our warehouse, which contained desperately needed stock on all styles and sizes for the Vinyl is Forever Edition 05. In case you haven’t heard, VIF ED 05 was designed by Chicago-based design collective The Post Family. This will be the final collection for the Vinyl is Forever line, so make sure to grab one before they’re gone. This collection will not be reprinted.
Musician as Designer
Justin Pearson’s (Three One G Records, The Locust, All Leather, Swing Kids, Retox, and about 1,000 other amazing bands) Musician as Designer t-shirts are still available online.
They will be followed up shortly by an installment from San Francisco’s Tim Cohen (Fresh and Onlys), who’s newest solo record can be purchased here, and whose online portfolio can be viewed here.
We’ll have other upcoming Musician as Designer t-shirts in the works from artists such as Richard McGuire of Liquid Liquid, Sonny Kay, and many more exciting artists. Installments range in size from 60 – 84 shirts, we recommend not dilly dallying.
Winter Sales
A few big sales happening on our site for a limited time:
- 2009 Collection Clearance - 70% off the entire 2009 Collection. Yes, 70%.
- Musician as Designer Clearance - 30% off select Musician as Designer tees by Jeremy Earl, Eddie Argos, John Wiese and Shawn Reed
- Tote Bag Sale - 50% off all 2010 Tote Bags (Animal Collective, Atlas Sound, Band of Horses, Chairlift, HEALTH, Pantha du Prince, TV on the Radio and Yeah Yeah Yeahs)
Upcoming Events
Soundscreen Design Presents: Seriously Ecstatic: Joshua White at the Fillmore East, 1968–70.
Issue Project Room
February 17th @ 8:00 pm
Please join us to help celebrate the release of our eleventh Artist Music Journal with Dan Nadel (Picturebox) and Joshua White (Joshua Light Show). Dan Nadel will conduct a Q&A with Joshua White preceding the live performance, featuring a musical collaboration with Gary Panter, Ross Goldstein and Devin Flynn.
Soundscreen Design @ Giant Robot
March 1-31
GR2
This pop-up will feature a wide range of products, including pop-up exclusives, our messenger bag with fortified vinyl LP pocket and the last installment of the Vinyl is Forever apparel line. Come and check us out!
In The Future
While we’re are hard at work with new artists and musicians for our 2011 Collection, we’ll also be curating the Fall ’11 Collection for LA-based fashion brand Blood is the New Black, whose t’s we wear almost everyday. We’ll have more information soon, but in the meantime you can check out their amazing collection of artists and apparel here.
Stay warm friends and thanks for your continued support!
