Hello internet friends

So, i've had a busy few weeks with poster jaunts to Aarau in Switzerland and then Chicago and Austin in the US. All were amazing and a big thanks to all the lovely people I met on my travels. You made this foolish man very happy.

The good news is that whilst on that trip I had three new posters released and made two new art prints. I might be lazy, but I still get things done.

First up for the new prints we have a collaboration with Jay Ryan called Sloth Comes To Visit, which is an 8 colour slice of joy born from our collective love of animals, sea slugs, small houses and oddness. I met Jay years ago at the opening of his first show in Manchester at the Richard Goodall Gallery along with many other of the current UK poster nerds including Graham Pilling and Drew Millward. If one man is to blame for us persuing this gig poster thing, it is most certainly Jay Ryan. To say it was an honour when Jay agreed to work with me on this is an understatement and the couple of days spent making this in Skokie were truly inspiring. The print can be bought from The Bird Machine site HERE for a mere $40 and there are a few process pics at the Bird Machine Facebook page HERE. Enough gushing, here's the print:

Second up we have my Andrew Bird poster. This was the poster for the mini Euro tour in support of the release of the new record (which is excellent, as you would expect from Mr. Bird) called 'Break It Yourself'...hence the smashed Faberge Egg. Plus he's called Bird you see...Bird's lay eggs...It's clever you see....no?....sorry. It's available from my online purchase hut HERE. Look at it with your vision orbs now:

Third up (bored yet?) we have the print I made based on an illustration for Mat Pringles zine project 'The Book One'. Titled The Escapist it's inspired by one of my favourite books, The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay, and shows a 1940's NYC skyline with the insignia of the comic creation from the book (called The Escapist hence the title) being beamed into the sky. Printed live at Flatstock 33 at SXSW by Andy MacDougall from Squeegeeville it's a rather splendid wee thing indeed and is available HERE: Right then, finally we have the last two prints. FIM (International Federation of Musicians) commissioned me to make a set of prints based on the tag line 'Dangerous Bands In Safe Hands' with a sort of Propaganda type vibe about them. These are what I came up with. They are available as single prints HERE or a set HERE:

That's it for now. Frankly i'm exhausted so I'm off to read comics and eat biscuits. I'd ask you to join me but I only have a few biscuits left and I'm greedy. Goodbye all

Luke

 

Well, turns out that there is time for one last blog of 2011 afterall, this time with a more illustrative bent.

Couple of illustration things for you then. First off I have a new one colour tee for the excellent Vessels.

You should be able to grab it via their shop or when they are out and about on the road in January. On top of that Paste Magazine have decided my scribblings for the Helioscope album artwork are in the top 50 album covers of 2011. Slow year huh? Have a look at it and the others here.

I have also just completed the artwork for a great Harsh Noise record called 'Gift From God' by Pirtek and Impetuous Urge. It features a track called 'Thirst For Piss' so you know it must be good. It should be out as a digital download before Christmas so when I hear more i'll post a link up on the blog. Edit: Download the album here: http://pfp.decx.org/ 

Here it is:

Well that's it i think. Had thought about doing best of 2011 thin but I can't be bothered so you will have to just imagine it. Merry Christmas all, speak to you in 2012.

bye!

Luke

Word to you, the internetters. You're all well i see,

Ok, been holding off on posting a couple of things but they are all finally done, ready and out there in the real world so i can share them with you too.

First up is a new poster for Death Cab For Cutie. Always liked myself a bit of DCFC so it was a great job to work on and was commissioned via the Richard Goodall Gallery in Manchester. They are inspired by vintage travel posters and available now from my webstore HERE and from the RG Gallery in person soon. Here it is:

Next up, if you were in Orlando for Orlando Calling last weekend you may have seen my poster for Gypsy Punk loons Gogol Bordello, commissioned by the ever wondrous Screenadelica. For those who weren't in Orlando, they look a lot like this: 

If they didn't sell out (which they probably didn't) they should be available from myself and Screenadelica soon.

And finally, I was asked as part of an ongoing relationship with the fine folk at British Underground, if could design the poster/advert/branding thingy for their stand at this years Womex convention. Brace yourselves...here it is!:

Well I for one am now full to the brim with doodles and scribbles so i will bid you all good day and happy nights,

Bye! Luke

Hello Interworld! You are looking well, have you been away?

Anyways, this is a post that has been a long time coming but, finally, I am able to proudly announce the launch of my brand new t-shirt 'TATS' in all its stupid glory. BEHOLD:

We all love tattoos, right? Yes, of course we do. Well believe it or not I often get asked if I can design them for people, or folks send me images of one of my scrawls forever injected in ink-form under their pallid skin. Good for them! However it also got me thinking, wouldn't it benefit us all if there were a simple flash sheet for people to choose from with some of the best pictures that live inside my head? And wouldn't it be even better if this flash sheet where in t-shirt form? Well that's exactly what's gone and happened.

'TATS' is available in S, M, L and XL and in a limited run of 50 shirts, and as if that weren't enough each t-shirt comes with one of four sets of temporary tattoos based on the tee design to trick your friends and wow the ladies/gents of your dreams. Tattoo-licious!

You can get your 'TATS' t-shirt and temporary tattoo set from my online shop hither: http://lukedrozd.bigcartel.com/product/tats-t-shirt-and-tattoo-set

Enjoy!

And who knows, if you send me proof that you have actually got one of these things made all permanent on your body i may just send you something special in the post.

All the best

Luke

Just realised that although this lauched a bit ago i haven't actually posted a blog thing about it so here goes...

Hail internet companions! I trust you are all of sound digital health?

The super chaps at Poster Roast have teamed up with the awesome folks at Awesome Merchandise to put togther a super awesome collaborative print and tee project. Six designers were selected and each will have there work included in print form with every order that Awesome Merch send out for a month long period. Each designer was asked to come up with something they think is awesome. I came up with a town called Awesome, population...YOU! Here it is: 

And as if that weren't enough you can also buy the design in t-shirt format to wear over your bodies here. Awesome!

The other awesome designers in the series are Drew Millward, WeThreeClub, Graham Pilling, Telegramme Studio & Twoducksdisco. Awesome. Right i have typed the word awesome enough now

Bye all

Awesome

Luke

Hello all,

Hope this finds you well. This is a quick, wee blog update about a recent project that has now launched.

As part of Ekko's, a live music venue in Utrecht, 25th anniversary celebrations, they teamed up with Push & Pull Posters aka Mara Piccione, to put together a series of commemorative posters for seminal and/or great gigs at the venue. Due to me having quite a bit of dirt on Mara she agreed to let me design a print for Franz Ferdinand. Here it is:

Inspired by the bands use of Constructivist imagery on previous releases i decided to try and filter Constructivist poster design through the streets of a moonlit Glasgow night. I guess to put it another way, what if Rodchenko had come from Scotland? If you like it, it can be purchased from my webstore at lukedrozd.com HERE.

The rest of the series features some amazing work (including a lovely one for I Am Kloot from my poster friend extraordinaire Mr.Graham Pilling) so go and have a squizz at them too HERE.

Bye for now, Luke

 

 Hello all, I trust you are well in digital land

First off I have returned to my own shores. This means I have to get on with normal life and pay a load of outstanding bills (as in 'need to be paid' not 'really good') BUT it also means normal shipping times will resume for print purchases. Which neatly brings me on to the fact that new prints are available in the online shop at www.lukedrozd.com.

First up is the print I produced for tUnE-yArDs at Into The Great Wide Open festival. I hope it captures the manic, joyous energy of a band who were the highlight of a great weekend. It is available here.

Second up are the mini prints from the residency with Subwalk in Arnhem. These are available either as single prints or in sets of 3 or 5 and are available here.

that's it for now. There will be a some pictures and info on my time at Flatstock Europe 6 later in the week and a new print for Franz Ferdinand available next week though so keep the peeper peeping

best, Luke

 

 

Why so sad indeed. After much waiting and deliberating the posters I designed for the Circa Survive show in Denver last year are finally in my sweaty hands and ready to be pushed into yours...hopefully free from sweat stains of course.

These 3 colour, screen-printed, A2 posters feature a monkey king on a throne of building blocks, lost deep in his own Quixotic senility. Silly monkey. Anyway, you can grab a copy at my online tat emporium here.

And while we're here, here's a pic of a recent print set I designed for a clients twins christening featuring imagery inspired by their names, Liberty and Gabriel. I'm rather happy with so lets hope the wee ones are too.

More info soon about upcoming exploits and exploitations. Ta ra!

Hello online comrades

First off, a huge thanks to all who came down to Screenadelica in Liverpool. It was a great weekend filled with much fun, booze and hi-jinks. We hope to see you all same time next year.

Second off, I have a couple of new prints available for the rather wonderful Hurray For The Riff Raff, a folk/americana/rootsy bunch from New Orleans. If you've not heard them I recommend checking them out inside one of their virtual lairs here or here. The prints are currently available on their UK tour but if you can't/won't get to a show then they can also be obtained via my online purchasing palace here.

They come as individual prints, each with either a voodoo/mardi gras priest or priestess, or if you can't/won't choose, as a set. Enjoy!

Finally, a quick reminder that the opening for Posters Fo' Sho' is on Friday at Five Years in East London so hopefully see some of you virtual people in the actual flesh there. More info here

Bye!

Hello all,

Just a quick blog post to mainly say that my Queens of the Stone Age poster is now available in my Online Capitalism Booth aka Dr. Drozd's Emporium of Paper Picture Sheets aka The Shop. There are precious few of these available from me so if you want one don't dilly-dally or dawdle before these doodles dwindle:

They are 3 colour screenprints, 63 x 45cm on good heavy stock and hand-printed by the wonderful Mark Pavey whom saved these at the eleventh hour from not being printed at all. Internet high-fives for Mark everyone. Ok, that's enough...

While you're here i'll also allow your peepers to gaze across a sample tee print i did a while back for the wholesome and wonderful folk at Monster Press. They now exist in the real world and not just inside my brain. If only that were true of the rest of the stuff in here. Here it is:

Keep your eyes on the prize!

Luke