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.

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best, Luke

Hello inter-chums, hope all is well. The worlds happiest chair greets you!

Well week two of my time in Arnhem, Holland is well underway and I have been working hard at the wonderful Subwalk studios. This week has seen an artist talk, a workshop and a great opening party for the new Subwalk studios.

So on travelling back to Arnhem I spent some time working on a new anniversary print for Ekko in Utrecht which is part of a series of works by a range of great poster designers. Not sure if I’m able to post pics of it yet so for now I’ll hold off but images and more information soon.

Aside from that I have been working away in the rather amazing Subwalk studios and developing a series of lino and photo plate prints that should form a limited set of prints...providing I don't total balls up the printing process itself. There are a couple of sneaky peeks of the lino-cutting stage for two of them below to get those chops salivating.

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Finally a huge thanks to all the wonderful people that came along to Subwalk’s opening bonanza of food, booze, posters and art. I had an amazing time and was great to talk to some of you about the weird world of gig poster design. Pictures ahoy!:

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I have one week left here now before I hop the border into Germania and attempt to sell posters to the wonderful people of Germany at Flatstock Europe 6. It will be ace...

Speak soon the international-computer-web

Luke

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:

Luke

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So i am now back in UK following the US jaunt and finally returned to my normal mental state. There are a few new projects on the go, including a Moondog print for a show in Edinburgh, a show myself and Eva Rowson are putting togther with Five Years in London and a Queens of the Stone Age poster at the printers as we speak.

But more about all those things in the near future. For now i just wanted to let all the lovely folks in interweb-world know about the new prints that are now up in the big cartel 'o' fun at lukedrozd.com. There's not one, not two, not three...no wait, there is exactly three new prints up.

First up is the lovely risograph print i produced for Biteproof zine and printed by the good folks at Ditto Press. Totally spazzy goodness to seer those retinas, these little babies are 3 colours and A3 in size.

Second we have the promotion poster/art print designed for my good friends at British Undrground where i'm sort of artist in residence at the moment. 3 colour sheddy loveliness.

Finally we have the art print version of my recent Three Trapped Tigers poster printed live before the people of the Untitled Shifts of the America at Flatstock in Austin, TX by Andy MacDougall of Squeegeeville. Factually accurate as well as good to look at so you cant really complain about that.

If you fancy any of those fellas pop over to the shop here. If not that's fine, its your choice, i wont be affended...or will I? No,I  won't.

Speak to you soon internet!

Good day people

Been meaning to post up some images of the new Vessels album artwork for a while but time has been making a mockery of me. I'm half tempted to stop living by its foolish rules for good.

Anyway, I was very pleased to be able to work with the band Vessels again on the artwork for their new record 'Helioscope'. For those amongst you who don't know a Helioscope is an old instrument used in observing the sun and the artwork features a malevolent god-like figure tired of being stared at by such devices, channeling the suns awesome power to teach them a right fiery lesson. That's Gods for you.

For those who have not glanced upon it in the flesh yet here's a few images of it in all its panoramic glory:

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Well my bags are indeed packed and i am ready to go...to the United Places of Americas!

The lovely folk over at the UKTI have awarded a grant to 6 UK poster artists to offer them the opportunity of traveling over to Austin, Texas and representing the UK at Flatstock during SXSW under the guise of the UKPA (UK Poster Association). Here's the full line-up for the UKPA mega booth:
Luke Drozd, Scrawled, Telegramme, WeThreeClub, BRAG/Rhys Wootton and Army of Cats.

If that weren't enough we have also put together a mini newspaper style poster journal called 'FLOOD' which will be available for free at the UKPA stand. Left over ones will probably surface at Poster Roast at Camden Crawl but should you miss both of these there is a download-able PDF of it on http://ukposterart.com/

On a personal note i will also have some new prints available for the first time including a lovely shed themed print for British Underground and a Flatstock demo print, which will be printed before peoples disbelieving eyes at the convention by Andy MacDougall - http://www.squeegeeville.com/

Finally i will also have a few of British Underground's Mod Map which i provided the illustration/map for to accompany an interview with The Who's Pete Townshend. Images of all these are at the top of this post.

Here’s all the information you will need in order to find us at SXSW:

Last but not least I'd like to extend a huge thanks to Pip McEvoy all at British Underground for their ongoing support with this and other ventures, without which this would not have happened.

Where did January go? I remember it threatening to rear its ugly grey head but then it was gone, leaving its even more depressing and slovenly sibling February behind to keep us company. But I will not let February beat me for many riches lie ahead.

First I am very pleased to say I will be off to Austin, TX for SXSW again this year, thanks to the generous support of UKTI and help from the ever-wonderful folks at British Underground. I'll be taking over a bunch of other UK poster types but more about that next week, including information about the rather splendid magazine we will be giving away out there called Flood.

Second, I've just about been managing to find the time to make some new work. So here for your eyes are a few new pieces from the studio, some of which will hopefully make it into some shows in the near future. Enjoy...or don't...up to you really:

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Hi Black Dogs friends, family and colleagues,

It's been a while since we sent an email update around but I will be brief nonetheless. We have a few projects on the boil, some of which we are inviting contributions to and some of which you may or may not be interested to know we are up to. Others you may want to come along, or even buy!

1. Biggest news is that we have an exhibition coming up at Milton Keynes Gallery. It will be themed around the recent discovery of the inhabitable planet Gliese 581 g and plans to set up a Space Colony based on Milton Keynes on said planet. We want your stories, myths and information relating to MK as well as 'how to' cards for essential life-skills and survival tips for this new society that will then become part of the exhibition. Please see our website for more info.

2. We have just undertaken a short residency at Kurt Schwitters Merz Barn in Cumbria on kind invitation of Littoral. We breathed in some fresh country air, explored the landscape and make a fanzine publication about art's social responsibility and political potential, and many other things that Black Dogs attempts to discuss as a group.

3. On November 13th Black Dogs will have a stall at Footprint's Radical Zine fair at University of Leeds at which we hope to distribute the aforementioned Merz Barn publication 'The House that Black Dogs Built'. Footprint are fantastic and we're happy to be part of their 10th year celebrations. See http://www.footprinters.co.uk/ for more details.

4. We have contributed a double-page spread to French publication Nuke magazine. It will be published some time soon. If you live in France keep an eye out for it. If not you can look at the website here http://www.nuke.fr/NukeMagazine.html.

5. We have set up a shop section on the Black Dogs website so you can purchase our old publications and the recently released Audio Almanac. Please have a look as the sexy white 12" slabs of vinyl will make excellent stocking fillers. Again, see our website for details.

That's all for now, we look forward to receiving any contributions for the MK Gallery exhibition you may have and/or to see you at some of the forthcoming events.

best wishes

Luke on behalf of Black Dogs
www.black-dogs.org