I think this might be my third or fourth post about Brent’s work, but I can’t help it – he’s one of the best in the game. Go check it out for yourself, and buy yourself a print while your at it – Brent lives in SF and it’s really expensive there.

http://brentcouchman.com/

Brian Gunderson is a great designer but I don’t need to tell you that, His work speaks for itself. I’ve followed his projects for quite a long time and I’m really excited that he finally put together a site. Check it out here.

Charles (the Artcrank mastermind)(right) and Mike Caguin (the new CCO of Colle McVoy)(left).

The boys who run Royal Antler shooting a behind the scenes video.

Nick Zdon

Nick Smasal

Aaron Purmort

Juliana Nagan

Bridget & Joe Anderson + Rachel Arford & Graham Hall.

Maria, Laura and Vance

Jordan Smith

Adam Hoganson and Kristen Swank

New mommy Kelly Munson

My son and my dad

My beautiful wife and baby to be

My folks, Maria’s folks, Maria and Matt

Artcrank Minneapolis is coming up on the 14th of April. You can find out all of the details here.

My buddy Charles runs this shindig and it’s always a really good time. This year they’re having it back downtown at Traffic Zone Center for Visual Art right over by the Bev’s Wine Bar. I was lucky enough to be selected to participate for a third year. Out of all my projects all year long, I really look forward to this one. It’s a chance to make art about bikes with no real rules or clients.

Now I don’t know if you guys know this about me, but I kind have a thing for badges, crests and vintage type lock-ups. When I was down in Alabama at that vintage air museum about a month ago, I was just juiced with inspiration. After a few nights of sketching and coming up with names with my dad, I had a perfect blueprint for my 2012 art crank poster: MPLS Bike Gangs.

After we got back, I got to designing, knocked out the poster in a few nights and hooked up with my good buddy Kevin Hayes aka LovelyMPLS for the printing. Kevin was awesome helping me print this thing. He even did a complex ink test to make sure the overprinting turned out perfect, his screens were on point, and I had a hell of a good time hanging out with him and printing it this Wednesday.

The final result are 56 two color posters printed on 100 lb light blue French Speckletone. Each one is signed and numbered and will be available at the opening. I hope I see you guys there. If you see me, say hi!

Process Shots:

This should make up for the lack of recent blog posts. Here are about 50 shots of vintage type. There’s everything from vintage packaging to military type to actual badges. Everything was shot down in Alabama at an aviation museum I visited with my family. If you’re ever down there on vacation, you should totally check it out.

I’ve got some posters I designed for the Zelda Triforce Tribute show available online. Please buy one for the wall in your house that needs some 8-bit love. Word.

Really digging the simple bold work of Michael Braley.

The list of credits are at the end of the video. I’ll post more images soon. One of these years I’ll have to talk them into letting me work on this project. Beautiful work you guys.

I know this stuff isn’t that new, but I just came across the print today and really loved how fun it was to look at. Pure eye candy. I’m not exactly sure about the whole list of credits, but I do know that the the product and signage is instore now. If you know the makers, please post names and links in the comments section. Thanks!