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

So as is always the case, following on from Flatstock in the MegAmericas and Poster Roast in Landan Tarn, I will be off with some of my poster pals to the wonderful  city of Liverpool for Screenadelica as part of the Sound City music festival. It's on from 3pm on Thursday 19th, Friday 20th and Saturday 21st and if its anything like last year it should be a massive barrel of laugh apples for everyone to munch on. When the apples have been eaten we can then save the pips and use these to grow more apples for next years barrel.

And to top it all off, it's FREE which means if you hate music you don't need to buy a Sound City wristband to come and see the show and buy posters. And if you really hate music, why not pretend the bands names littering the beautiful posters being exhibited are actually the names of obscure literary marvels, pretentious critcal theorists or a friend of yours who changed their name for a bet.

On to the real world actual fact-mation from the Horse's mouth (that is only amusing if you know that the person running it works under the moniker Horse. which you do now so go back and re-read it and titter at how drole i am):

Screenadelica

34 Slater Street (former International/Art Organisation Gallery), Liverpool, UK

Screenadelica is a gig poster exhibition, celebrating the art of the screen printed gig poster, held during Liverpool Sound City festival. Playing host to both UK and international artists, Liverpool shall see a wide variety of styles promoting the bands the artists love, inspired by the music they hear. With digital download taking over the music scene, the desire to still own something physical makes the screen printed poster ...all the more important, driving artists to create pieces of art for each show which encapsulates the music in their eyes. This then means that rather than one artist representing the bands sound, they get a whole range of interpretations of their music thru the screen printed gig poster.

The actual exhibition is open from 3pm daily.

Confirmed exhibiting artists include:

Luke Drozd, WeThreeClub, Army of Cats, Nick Rhodes, Tiny Little Horse, Michael Cowell, Horse, Paul Rafferty, Craig Robson & John Biddle

We will have live t-shirt screenprinting during the show where you can have a go at printing your own shirt featuring one of 4 specially designed images which will be available at this show only!

THIS EVENT IS FREE TO ENTER

The gallery space shall also play host to a bar and will have a specially curated line up of bands and visuals featuring:

THURSDAY FROM 8PM

NLF3(france), NASSER(france), MORE THAN CONQUERORS(irl), A TIME FOR BURNING, THIS IS TWO

FRIDAY FROM 8PM

SOCIAL SUICIDE, DZ DEATHRAYS(nz), VASCO DA GAMA, I AM AUSTIN

SATURDAY FROM 8PM

APPLE CANNON, JAZZ HANDS, DEEP SEA ARCADE(aus)

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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.