The Small Stakes

Sorry for the long absence. Finals, vacation, and the first three weeks of school have kept me busy. Now I’m back and prepared to keep posting work and featuring people along with things that inspire me like today.

I have a screen printing class this quarter so we have already completed our first assignment which was a “wood cut” illustration for a wine label. I did Black Swan, which I will post a little later after I revise it. Our next assignment is to Screen print a poster and shirt for a local SF event.

The Small Stakes is a website full of great screen print posters by a bay area artist named Jason Munn.

Go check it out for band poster inspiration!

http://www.thesmallstakes.com/

Design It Yourself

The first design book I ever bought was just by chance when walking through a borders in Los Angeles. I generally visit the book store atleast once every few weeks. For a while I would go every week on my way to work. D.I.Y – Design It Yourself is a great resource for creative ideas for artists. I love it so much because it gives you different options on how to design things, be it a website, a book, a t-shirt, or even bathroom towels. They spoke about the pros and cons of using different methods and broke it down by time and price as well. Overall this book will make you want to get crafty even if you are like me, wretched with scissors, glue, or fabric. 

Cost wise, it’s relatively cheap for a design book so I suggest going out and buying it, or at the very least flipping through.

Go do something creative today.