Hello chums

All is going full-pelt up our way and we have a load of poster shows and a couple of new prints available to prove it. I don't know why i said 'we', it's just me here, and i'm cold and scared. But never mind that...

First up i can finally reveal my new poster for The Black Keys. Designed for the Edinburgh show on 4th March 2012, this is now available along with my recent comic influenced poster for The Local's 'SHHH' Festival, an all-day celebration of quiet music, art and film. Both can be bought at the online shop HERE.

Now for the upcoming shows. Over the next few months, as well as staring at my posters on mass on the compurenator on your desk, you will be able to go and look at them on mass in physically physical spaces where you can talk to other humans about why someone would bother. Where? I will tell you where:

1. Prints & Tunes, Aarau, Switzerland. The first of this years overseas jaunts will take me to the unfamiliar terrains of Switzerland. Looks like a great show, put together by the folks at Laborartix, alongside some wonderful poster fellows including friends Furturtle and Damien Tran. Come meet us all at the opening on 2nd March 2012. More information available HERE.

2. Flyposting, Leeds, UK. A poster show in the city where I began designing posters and taking place at The Gallery at Flannels, 68-78 Vicar Lane  Leeds, LS1 7JH from March 6th - May 6th 2012. Sadly I won't be there for the opening but there's a great selection of poster talent in the show including Mara Piccione, Jacknife and Nick Rhodes aka Switchopen.

3. Flatstock 33, SXSW, Austin TX, USA. Last but by no means least the UKPA will return to Flatstock at SXSW with some of the best in UK poster artists including Graham Pilling, Telegramme Studio, Cameron Steward aka Twoducksdisco and Scrawled Design. If you find yourself there, just follow the babbling British nonsense at it should lead you right to the UKPA booth. More info on the show exists HERE and on the UKPA HERE.

Finally in case you wondered what was rattling around in my head, the Crewkoos lot have put together a wee interview with me about my posters. If you have time to waste it lives in this bit of the internet HITHER.

That's it for now, better be off

best, 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:

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!:

Bye! Luke

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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.