Rock Paper Show Event - Chicago Release Party

The latest in the Rock Paper Show release events across the country is this week at Chicago’s Renegade Handmade. Come join us to celebrate, get your own copy and have it signed by a multitude of the talented artists and designers in town for Flatstock 26 (at Pitchfork).

Event Details:
July 15th
Renegade Handmade
1924 W Division Street, Chicago, IL
7:00 PM – 9:00 PM

SSD at Pitchfork

While in Chiacgo we’ll be attending Pitchfork Music Festival, where we’ll be on site selling merchandise July 16th-18th . We’ll have our own booth there, stocked with deluxe editions of Rock Paper Show, ReFRAMEs for all the posters you buy at Flatstock, and a selection of our favorite SSD apparel, as well as a few surprises, all with special weekend discounts.

Pitchfork Music Festival Details:
July 16th-18th
Union Park 1501 W Randolph St, Chicago, IL

New Musician as Designer T-Shirt - Nick Zinner

If you haven’t yet, make sure to check out the latest installment in our Musician as Designer series. The new t-shirt, printed on organic Alternative Apparel garments, features Nick Zinner as designer. Zinner, who lives in New York City, is a founding member of Yeah Yeah Yeahs and Head Wound City, as well as an accomplished photographer. There are only 84 pieces in this (very) limited edition, so be sure to get one before they’re out.

Stay Tuned for these Upcoming Projects at SSD:

The 10th edition of our Artist Music Journals series is arriving shortly, featuring designer Brian Roettinger. Founder of the design studio/record label Hand Held Heart, Roettinger has received the highest praises for his album art and design for No Age and Liars. Speaking of No Age, Brian’s installment in the ongoing series is extra-special - the book comes with a one-sided 10″ record, featuring 3 exclusive tracks from No Age and Brian, who collaborated to present the musical accompaniment to Brian’s visual journal. Pre-orders will be available within the next 3 weeks.

We’re also really excited to start production this week on Touchable Sound: A Collection of 7-inch Records from the USA. The upcoming book features over 300 records from the past 25 years, essays from figures as talented and diverse as Justin Pearson (Three One G / Locust), Sam McPheeters (Vermiform / Born Against), Tom Hazelmyer (Amphetamine Reptile), Kristin Thompson (Simple Machines), and more, as well an introduction by Henry H. Owings (Chunklet Magazine). Each record was photographed, researched, and documented in this homage to labor intensive, artistically driven, exceptionally packaged 7’s, which continue to influence and define modern record packaging design.

Last but not least, stay on the look out for our 2010 Collection. It will feature five talented designers and ten amazing bands. The first release will feature Animal Collective and Atlas Sound, as designed by the talented Rob Carmichael/Seen Studio, as well as Yeah Yeah Yeahs and Pantha du Prince, as designed by the incredible Hisham Bharoocha. More info and pre-orders coming soon. In the meantime, stock up on the remaining designs from the 2009 Collection, all at 40% off.

Lot’s of Rock Paper Show activity to report as we approach the release date. This week will be the first of a series of events around the country promoting the books release. Rock Paper Show’s curator, Geoff Peveto, as well as a strong group of local artists featured in the book will be doing speaking / signing engagements in Portland and Seattle this weekend. Come on down, say hi, and get your copy of Rock Paper Show before anyone else in your neighborhood.

Portland Event Details:
May 21st
Reading Frenzy
921 Southwest Oak Street, Portland, OR
7:00-9:00 pm

Reading Frenzy is pleased to host a Portland release of Rock Paper Show and exhibit this on-going visual history with a show of original posters from the book. Local artists Mike King, Gary Houston, Dan Stiles, Andy Diesel and Casey Burns will be in attendance, along with Jeff Kleinsmith of Patent Pending, and Geoff Peveto, president of API and coordinator of the International Flatstock Poster Convention. Free beer from Ninkasi!

Seattle Event Details:
May 22nd
Damaged Goods
2316 2nd Avenue, Seattle, WA
6:00 - 9:00

President of the American Poster Institute and curator of Rock Paper Show, Geoff Peveto will be on hand to discuss the project and sign copies with fellow Seattle contributors including artists from the design studios of Patent Pending, Ames Bros, Artillery Design, The New Year, Power Slide Design Co., Stubborn Sideburn and UglyBogus. Join us Saturday for a complimentary glass of Renegade Wine, then check out the book and the original twenty posters created exclusively for it’s release.

There will be events in NYC (at The Strand) and Austin (at Domy) in the coming weeks, followed by Chicago and San Francisco in July. Stay tuned for details.

Pre-orders will begin shipping at the end of next week. If you have not ordered yet, please go to our shop. The deluxe edition is still available, but going quickly.

Seripop presents Hoarding Skin, an installation piece, as their first solo exhibition in New York City. Debuting at Secret Project Robot Art Experiment in Brooklyn, Hoarding Skin will then travel to the Vienna Kunsthalle in June.

“We see the street poster as the “skin” of a city , growing and shedding organically, in constant flux, allowing citizens to make their temporary mark. With Hoarding Skin we seek to engage in playful discussion about both the individual and community’s role vis-a-vis freedom of expression within the urban landscape, via the colloquial and/or the monumental.”

Further, Seripop have contributed their installment in the ongoing Artist Music Journal series, edition 09.  The books are on press, and we will announce pre-orders shortly.  We are still selling subscriptions to the first year’s volume, all 12 installments.

Thank you to everyone who came out to Flatstock 24 / SXSW, we had a great time meeting all of you who stopped by our booth. The lucky people who purchased advance copies of Rock Paper Show three months ahead of its official release are hopefully enjoying their books and hanging their set of original prints. The deluxe editions (with all 20 original prints from 20 of our favorite studios specially commissioned for the book) went quick, and are continuing to sell in pre-orders. Please pre-order yours to ensure you get one (there are only 500)!

Rock Paper Show officially ships in early June, and to celebrate the release we’ll be doing events on both coasts, Chicago, and Austin throughout the summer. Stay tuned for more.

A long time in the making, we are pleased to share a few updates on Rock Paper Show: Flatstock Volume One. While the book is not officially out until May, Soundscreen Design will be down at SXSW to premiere the book at Flatstock 24. We’ll have a limited number of sell-able copies, both the standard and deluxe editions (we’ll be able to take cash and credit cards), as well as a display of all 20 original posters contained in the deluxe version.  We might have a few surprises up our sleeves as well, you never know.

Should you be hungry and also crave looking at the original posters, you can also find an instillation of all 20 original posters at Frank, the best hot dogs and cold beer in all of Texas.

For those of you not able to make it Flatstock 24, we are also taking pre-orders in our shop. If you fancy yourself a collector, we recommend getting orders for the deluxe edition in now, as there are only 500 copies available.  The deluxe edition features both the book and 20 11″x17″ screen-printed, letter pressed, or stenciled posters from 20 of the artists featured in the book. All the posters come in a protective portfolio denoting edition size (hand numbered of course), and all in a protective printed 12″x18″ box.

Enjoy the following previews of both the book, and the set of original posters.

To keep up with all Rock Paper Show happenings, check out the recently launched book site, designed by the book’s designers, Rumors. We will be uploading tons of content and updates over the next few months, as well as information on the book tour we are scheduling for this summer.

Tomorrow (Saturday December 5th) from 11am-7pm, we will be sharing a table with Joel Speasmaker/Forest at the first-annual Brooklyn Comics and Graphics Festival, taking place at Our Lady of Consolation Church (184 Metropolitan Ave, Williamsburg). We’ll have a selection of products including all the available Artist Music Journals, Rockin’ Alphabet Kids Books, and some apparal selections, all at discounted prices. Admission is free.

Presented by Desert Island and PictureBox, a mix of featured guests including Gary Panter and Kim Deitch will be in attendance, while booths will feature the work of Drawn and Quarterly, Nieves, Bodega and more. Panel discussions will be held at Secret Project Robot, and an event after-party will be held at Death By Audio.

Ian Baguskas is a Brooklyn based photographer who we have been fortunate enough to work with on one of our book projects, Touchable Sound. Ian travels extensively to photograph for many of his projects.  Previous projects such as Search for the American Landscape brought him to Washington, Oregon, California, Utah, Louisiana, and Mississippi over the course of 2004, while in 2005, Ian spent two months in South Korea working on his project, Below Line 38, where he photographed the landscape and the people. Ian is also an avid music fan, which helps explain his participation in Mixtape group show opening tonight at Jen Bekman Gallery in NYC.

Rincon Artificial Island and Pipeline, Ventura, California by Ian Baguskas, c-print

From Jen Bekman Gallery:

Please join us at the gallery on Friday, November 20th, from 6:00 to 8:00 p.m. for the opening of Mixtape, a group exhibition featuring forty-six original works and limited-edition prints from 20×200, by thirty-six artists. In the spirit of what Geoffrey O’Brien declared the “most widely practiced American art form,” Mixtape brings the studio soundtrack to the gallery walls.

Here at Soundscreen Design, we have a very strong fondness for Post Typography, the incredibly talented design studio based in Baltimore, Maryland. In addition to having the longest capabilities list known to man (see their site if you don’t believe us), Bruce and Nolen will be contributing to the Artist Music Journals series in the coming months.

If you live in New York City, we highly recommend you come to the NY release party for their newest book, Lettering & Type: Creating Letters and Designing Typefaces, at the Herb Lubalin Study Center of Design and Typography, at The Cooper Union, on Tuesday November 17th at 7:00. In typical Post Typography style, the concept of the release event itself is nothing short of brilliant. From Post Typography:

Fan Letter: 26 Artists and Designers Present Their Favorite Letter or Typographic Character

Twenty-six local, national, and internationally-based designers and artists give a two-minute ode to an alphabet letter or typographic character. These may range from multimedia presentations, performances, videos, stories, poems, animations, songs, stand-up comedy, rants, short plays, demonstrations, Gregorian chants, etc—however they choose to depict their letter.

Fan Letter is organized and emceed by Bruce Willen and Nolen Strals of Post Typography, authors of a new book from Princeton Architectural Press, Lettering & Type: Creating Letters and Designing Typefaces. This event is the launch party for the book, and also takes place in conjunction with Lubalin Now, the inaugural exhibition in the newly relocated Herb Lubalin Study Center of Design and Typography. The participants in Fan Letter include many designers whose work is featured in the exhibition as well as in Lettering & Type.

The Insound 10 Classic is a visual narrative of 20 years (1977-1997) of punk, new wave & indie rock, designed by Mike Perry.  Similar in scope to our 2009 Collection, the original designs created for 10 iconic bands were printed up on crew neck t’s, tote bags,  and gorgeous 18×24 posters (limited to 125 per design, and hand numbered and signed by Mr. Perry  himself).

Insound will be raffling off one of each poster design to ten lucky winners, each to be delivered with a ReFRAME. Just our way of saying we love the Insound 10 Classic.

About The Insound 10 Classic -

The Insound 10 Classic project follows last year’s award winning Insound 20, which featured 20 contemporary indie bands and designed by Jason Munn. The Insound 10 Classic was conceived as a fun, visual narrative of 20 years of post-punk, new wave and indie rock (1977-1997). The project features designs by renowned designer/illustrator/editor Mike Perry. The list of bands is a veritable who’s who of indie rock history and includes Richard Hell and the Voidoids, The Feelies, Galaxie 500, Beat Happening, The Magnetic Fields, Sunny Day Real Estate, Sleater Kinney, The Promise Ring, The Olivia Tremor Control, and The Apples in Stereo. The Insound 10 Classic designs will be printed on American Apparel t-shirts, limited edition silkscreen posters, and 100% cotton oversized tote bags.

Mike Perry works in Brooklyn, making books, magazines, newspapers, clothing, drawings, paintings, illustrations and teaching whenever possible. He has written several immensely popular design books, including Hand Job, about hand drawn typography, and Over and Over, about hand drawn patterns in design.

And so the Fall touring season has begun, despite it technically still being summer.  Six of the nine bands featured in our Summer Collection are hitting the road this Fall, traveling all over the globe to play for you.  Please see the dates below for Battles, Deerhoof, Fucked Up, Handsome Furs, No Age and Pelican.  Crew neck t’s, V-neck t’s, zip front hoodies and tote bags from the Summer Collection are available in our shop.

Tour dates:

Battles
November 21 – Tokyo, Japan @ Warp20 Festival
December 12 – Minehead, UK @ ATP

Deerhoof
September 12 – New London, CT @ I Am Festival
September 13 – Monticello, NY @ ATP
September 14 – Cambridge, MA @ Middle East
September 15 – NY, NY @ Le Poisson Rouge
September 17 – Toronto, ON @ Yonge Dundas Square

Fucked Up
September 19 – Portland, OR @ Wonder Ballroom

Handsome Furs
September 11 – Hanoi, Vietnam @ Gio Song Hong
September 12 – Bangkok, Thailand @ Club Culture
September 18 – Singapore @ Home Club
October 22 - Utrecht, Netherlands @ Tivoli
October 23 - Amsterdam, Netherlands @ Paradiso
October 24 - Brussels Belgium @ Botanique
October 26 – Belfast, UK @ Spring & Airbrake
October 27 - Dublin, Ireland @ Academy
October 28 - Cork, Ireland @ Cyprus Avenue
October 30 - Bristol UK @ The Cooler
October 31 – Leeds, UK @ Brudenell Social
November 1 – Manchester, UK @ Ruby Lounge
November 2 – London, UK @ Relentless Garage

No Age
September 13 - Monticello, NY – ATP @ Kutchers Country Club
September 19 - Las Vegas NV @ Pearl, Palms Casino
October 14 – NY,  NY @ Le Poisson Rouge
October 16 - NY, NY @ New Museum
October 19 – London, UK @ Scala
October 21 – Manchester, UK @ Deaf Institute
October 22 – Berlin, Germany @ West Germany
October 23 – Oslo, Norway @ Betong
October 24 -  Dublin, Ireland @ Crawdaddy
October 30 -San Francisco, CA @ Great American Music Hall

Pelican
September 22 - Brooklyn, NY @ Masonic Temple
October 18 - Minneapolis, MN @ Triple Rock Social Club
October 19 - Kansas City, MO @ Riot Room
October 20 - The Marquis Theatre - Denver, CO @ The Marquis Theatre
October 21 - Salt Lake City, UT @ Club Vegas
October 22 - Boise, ID @ Neurolux
October 24 - Seattle, WA @ El Corazon
October 25 - Portland, OR @ Hawthorne Theatre
October 27 - San Francisco, CA @ Independent
October 28 - West Hollywood, CA @ The Troubadour
October 29 - San Diego, CA @ The Casbah
October 30 - Tempe, AZ @ Clubhouse
November 1 - Austin, Texas @ Emo’s
November 2 - Dallas, TX @ Granada Theater
November 4 - Springfield, MO @ Outland Ballroom
November 5 - Iowa City, IA @ The Picador
November 28 - Detroit, MI @ The Shelter
November 29 - Buffalo, NY @ The Soundlab
December 1 - Philadelphia, PA @ First Unitarian Church
December 2 - NY, NY @ Highline Ballroom
December 3 - Allston, MA @ Harper’s Ferry
December 4 - Washington, DC @ Rock And Roll Hotel
December 5 - Asheville, NC @ The Orange Peel
December 7 - Atlanta, GA @ The Earl
December 8 - Birmingham, AL @ Bottletree Cafe
December 9 - Knoxville, TN @ Cider House
December 10 - Columbus, OH @ Ravari Room
December 11 - Chicago, IL @ Empty Bottle