Gig Posters, Vol. 2: Rock Show Art of the 21st Century - Softcover

Clay Hayes

4.6

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9781594745430: Gig Posters, Vol. 2: Rock Show Art of the 21st Century

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1594745439 ISBN 13: 9781594745430

Publisher: Quirk Books, 2011

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Since 2001, Gigposters.com has been the Internet's premier resource for rock-show poster art; the site's massive online database showcases more than 100,000 posters from 10,000 different designers, including all of today's top poster studios. "Gig Posters Volume 2" highlights 700-plus masterpieces from the archives, including 101 perforated and ready-to-frame posters for acts like Cee Lo Green, Crystal Castles, Vampire Weekend, Wilco, Arcade Fire, and more. Among the many designers contributing to this collection are James Quigly, Pete Cardoso, Alan Hynes, the Ames Brothers, and many more. Packaged in an oversized 11-by-14-inch paperback, "Gig Posters Volume 2" is a spectacular compilation of rock show art (and one hell of a cheap way to decorate a dorm room or apartment).

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If you have ever wondered how to build a Lego band, or, more than all if you have ever wondered how would look like the fornication result of Motorhead s monster logo and Hello Kitty, then, this book is definitly for you, you ll have all the answers you ever dreamt!...The book is sized 36.5 x29 cm.On the front of each you will find a poster picture, on the back six small illustration and comments regarding the designer. Each page can be removed thanx to the soft cover format, so that you can easily have 101 posters ready to frame. --Crewchro, October, 2011..... a living document on the modern rock poster movement and the go to resource for music poster art featuring over 130,000 examples by 10,000 artists and designers from around the world. The first volume of Gig Posters (released in 2009) from Quirk Books was an outstanding collection of exciting and electric work, presented in large format and including 101 pull-out posters! Released this month is the long awaited second volume presenting a new collection of work that s just as good as the first. Sticking to the original format, you have another 101 posters to grace your walls (among the 700 posters in total) with interviews and short biographies on each of the artists. Particular favorites from this edition include Craig Horky, Hyp Inc, R.Black and Joe Whyte. Highly recommended, if not only for an incredibly cheap way to decorate your house with posters for bands such as The Flaming Lips, QOTSA and The New York Dolls, but also as a book that celebrates a collection of equally cool poster artists in an increasingly digital and sanitized age. --Wings Illustrations, Nov, 2011.... Gig Posters is one of our favourite books of 2010, collecting some cracking examples of rock show flyers featuring artwork from both music specialists and non-genre illustrators such as Tara McPherson. The best part was that the 101 posters are detachable ready for framing and hanging on your wall. Gig Posters II has the same concept, bringing together 101 more posters featuring the artwork for David V D Andrea, Peter Cardoso, Graham Pilling, Hatch Show Print for acts including Black Keys, Flight of the Conchords, Ice-T, Sufjan Stevens, Built to Spill, Decemberists, The Hold Steady, and Slayer and Mastodon. The posters are drawn largely from the genres of indie, rock, metal and out-and-out weirdness. Each poster has an interview with the artist concerned, discussing their work, inspirations, techniques for the poster shown, with one full page of artwork, and up to eight smaller examples of their work shown. --Digital Arts magazine, November, 2011.... 'Exquisite gig artwork designed by independent artists.In this compendium you can read interviews with some of the designers, and pull out 101 perforated and ready to frame posters. -- --NME magazine

Gig Posters is one of our favourite books of 2010, collecting some cracking examples of rock show flyers featuring artwork from both music specialists and non-genre illustrators such as Tara McPherson. The best part was that the 101 posters are detachable ready for framing and hanging on your wall. Gig Posters II has the same concept, bringing together 101 more posters featuring the artwork for David V D Andrea, Peter Cardoso, Graham Pilling, Hatch Show Print for acts including Black Keys, Flight of the Conchords, Ice-T, Sufjan Stevens, Built to Spill, Decemberists, The Hold Steady, and Slayer and Mastodon. The posters are drawn largely from the genres of indie, rock, metal and out-and-out weirdness. Each poster has an interview with the artist concerned, discussing their work, inspirations, techniques for the poster shown, with one full page of artwork, and up to eight smaller examples of their work shown. --Digital Arts magazine, November, 2011 Gig Posters Volume 2 is a fabulous collection of 101 ready-to-frame poster --A --Alternative magazine online, December, 2011 This meticulously compiled book lets you instantly upgrade any room without the need for an afternoon sifting past One Direction posters on an HMV rack, or a traipse around an art boutique. The collection contains 101 music-themed pop-art posters that can be easily torn out, all printed on lovely-to-touch quality paper. The themes vary from obscure Japanese psychedelic act Acid Mothers Temple to latter-day rockers Kings Of Leon, while the attention to detail is astonishing. Every page features interviews, a brief collection of their work and full stockist details. --Loaded, December 2011 This a bedazzling array of more than 700 posters from groups around the world. Mr Hayes is to be congratulated on bringing the contemporary music scene to exciting visual life. Some of today s boldest and most talented poster designers are included. Each poster has an interview with the artist concerned, discussing their work, inspirations and techniques. More than 100 posters are perforated for easy removal to be used as ready to frame displays. They include Black Keys, Flight of the Conchords, Ice-T, Norah Jones and the Avett Brothers. Gig Posters II contains a wealth of images to interest and enthuse--Scunthorpe Telegraph, Dec, 2011--Gig Posters Volume 2 is a fabulous collection of 101 ready-to-frame posters featuring the likes of Pavement, Slayer and Phish. So you can either enjoy it as a beautiful coffee table tome or, thanks to the clever perforated pages, detach a few and make fabulous framed prints to decorate your man cave/study. Relive your (sonic) youth -- --Birmingham Post, December, 2011

Those in search of future classics may prefer the outsized volume two of Gig Posters which includes 101 ready-to-frame posters as well as interviews with their designers --Illustration Magazine, December, 2011

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