The Los Angeles Times had an interesting article on the new rock poster which discussed how some designers are moving away from classic flames and skulls and gravitating towards a minimal clean look that reflects more of the band’s personality.
What I found most interesting though was the author’s acknowledgment that designers are blending a printmaking technique by hand with iconography of the past using technology to help design the image, also drawing parallels between neo-silkscreeners and neo-crafters:
“… a small, innovative handful of artists-designers is reimagining the possibilities of silk screen and a relatively small rectangular field. These artists show a fascination with the iconography of the past, including book jackets, vinyl records, nature icons and modernist design, in a field that has been radically remade by technology: Like today’s vinyl obsessives and neo-craft types, they are post-traditionalists, reveling in, almost fetishizing, print culture after what we’re told is the end of print.”
Small Stakes by Jason Munn
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