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.

Big day for Soundscreen Design as we got two new, limited-edition products up for pre-order in our shop.

The third and latest installment in the Musician as Designer T shirt line, curated byHisham Bharoocha and Soundscreen Design, features the intricate design of the legendary Eye, of Boredoms fame. Printed in a very limited quantity on Alternative Apparel organic garments, Eye’s installment features an original 2 color design (white base with black overprint) screen printed on “earth green” color organic crew neck t’s. There are 72 shirts in this installment, available in unisex XS-XL.
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The latest installment in the Artist Music Journals series showcases the amazing illustration and poster work from our favorite Montreal-based design team, Seripop. Known for their original illustration and design work, as well as their longstanding tenure as founders and members of the musical outfit Aids Wolf, Seripop have a broad following around the globe. For their installment in the ongoing series, Seripop compiled years of original gig poster work, the first collection of its kind for the studio, which has made thousands of prints over the years.

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.

To celebrate the release of both Bjorn’s Musician as Designer t-shirt and Artist Music Journal, we are offering a package deal of the two at a discounted price, 20% off. Available for a limited time and while quantities last exclusively in our shop.

Thank you to Time Out NY for including Hisham Bharoocha’s Musician as Designer T in their story on the best band t’s (Image 8 in the story). Out of the edition of 78, limited quantities remain in our shop.

Printed in a very limited quantity on Alternative Apparel organic garments, Hisham’s installment features an original 2 color design (charcoal & metallic silver) printed on “earth natural” color organic crew neck t’s.

If you want more from Hisham, we recommend his Artist Music Journal, which is also limited and available in our shop.

Available in our shop for pre-order, the item will start shipping February 25th.

Edition 07 in the ongoing Artist Music Journals series features the work of the legendary Baltimore based design team Post Typography, who also happen to moonlight as two thirds of the wonderful rock band Double Dagger. For their AMJ, Bruce and Nolen chose to archive a large collection of their flyer and poster work for Double Dagger, while adding notes, stories and drawings about each work pictured.

About Post Typography -
Originally conceived as an avant-garde anti-design movement by Nolen Strals and Bruce Willen, Post Typography has come to encompass the pair’s creative collaborations including graphic design, illustration, conceptual typography, and custom lettering, with additional forays into art, apparel, curatorial work, design theory, and vandalism. Their work has received numerous fancy design awards and has been featured in such books as Ellen Lupton’s textbook Graphic Design: The New Basics, Phaidon’s Area 2, and Taschen’s Contemporary Graphic Design, as well as a new monograph of the studio’s work by European publisher Pyramyd Editions.

As longtime Baltimore residents, Strals and Willen maintain a strong presence in the local arts and music communities, contributing to numerous art and design exhibitions in Baltimore and beyond. In 2005 Post Typography curated Alphabet: An Exhibition of Hand-Drawn Lettering and Experimental Typography, a highly regarded art show that has traveled nationally to dozens of galleries and universities over the past five years. The studio recently wrote and designed Lettering & Type, a book on lettering and typeface design published by Princeton Architectural Press in Fall 2009.

As we mentioned last week, EE Storey’s Artist Music Journal, Edition 06 in the ongoing series, is out and shipping as of today.  All pre-orders and subscriptions will be mailed standard mail, and if you have not had a chance to get your order in, now is a great time.

We are thrilled to kick off 2010 with the sixth edition in our ongoing Artist Music Journals series, featuring the work of Montreal based art director, graphic designer and illustrator EE Storey. For her contribution to the series, EE created a book of original works meant to reflect her relationship to the Adirondack Mountains through the lens of John Coltrane’s A Love Supreme.

Head over to the shop and pre-order EE’s AMJ today, we will begin shipping out pre-orders the week of 1.25.

If you’ve seen albums, posters or merchandise for bands such as Death Cab for Cutie, or Tegan and Sara, you’ve probably seen EE’s work. Learn more here.

The back half of the first 12 in year 1’s series features some heavy hitters, including installments from Post Typography, Dan Nadel (Picturebox), Bjorn Copeland (Black Dice), Brian Roettinger (Hand Held Heart) and Seripop. Each installment is limited to 1000 copies; subscriptions and stand-alone edition sales are available in our shop.

Just in time for turkey day here in the States, the newest installment in the ongoing Artist Music Journals series is now available in our shop.

Edition 05 features the work of the indefinable German team of Christian “Meeloo” Gfeller and Anna Hellsgård, known as Bongout. They describe their contribution to the series as “an experimental collage book. We actually scanned some covers from our record collection and cut and paste them into this new project.”

Featuring source material from albums as diverse as Black Dice’s “Broken Ear Record” to The Meteors’ “In Heaven”, the 24 pages of this AMJ are a kind of visual remix of selections from Bongout’s record collection.

We are thrilled to share a few new confirmations to the series, including: EE Storey, Post Typography, Dan Nadel (Picturebox), Bjorn Copeland (Black Dice), Brian Roettinger (Hand Held Heart) and Seripop. Each installment is limited to 1000 copies. Subscriptions and stand alone edition sales are available in our shop.

Good things come from collaborations.  Head over to Facebook, friend us if you haven’t already, and tell us who you think we should consider for future Artist Music Journal releases.  Next week, we will pick one recommender to receive the first 3 editions in this years series: Jason Yates, Shaun Flynn, and Daniel Higgs.

The next installment in the series will be Edition 04 - Hisham Bharoocha, coming this October. Example work from Hisham:

Artist Music Journal subscriptions and stand alone sales are availible in our shop.