All Set For Success!

Ahoy denizens of the interwaves! I trust you are all alive and well.

I have returned from adventures and in tow I bring new treats for you to squander monies on. But where have you been, I hear you cry? I have been over there. Yes, there, in that America. More specifically I went to SXSW in Austin, Texas and attended the always wonderful Flatstock festival. 

Flatstock, for those unaware of it, is a gigantaloid gig poster convention where the great and the good from the world of poster design come along to display their articles. As ever I came flying the flag for the UK Poster Association (UKPA) alongside my booth friend Graham Pilling, and other UK poster peoples Telegramme Studio, WeThreeClub, Michael Cowell and Nick Rhodes, with the aim of promoting not just the artists in attendance, but those from the wider UK scene as well. Twas a heap of fun as always and a big thank you goes to all who came by and made it such. What did it all look like? Well, Graham made a video so you can see for yourself: 

Looks good right? Well it was. 

I also had some new wares on our booth which I can now make available to you via the power of my online store. First off I have new things to cover up your hideous bodies in the form of t-shirts. I made two new designs featuring the worlds favourite motifs, cats and skulls. The cat based one features a conjoined twin cat and the slogan 'All Set For Success' and comes in a light grey or a powder blue in mens cut/size, and in pink in womens cut (I wanted pink mens too but sadly Next Level don't make a mens pink shirt. Outraged!) and looks like this: 

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And can be obtained HERE

The second skull themed tee allows you to find out what your own skull will look like long after you die and is called 'You (Dead)'. It is available in metal grey and midnight blue in both mens and womens cuts and looks alot like this: 

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And can be purchased HERE

Finally, thanks to the screenprint masters Andy MacDougall of Squeegeeville and Jonathan Rebolloso of Serie Project, I have a new art print for sale called The Procession. Printed live for the public to gawk at during Flatstock 38, these are 3 colour screenprints and look like this:

And can be nabbed HERE

Thats it for now. Hope you like the new bits and bob. 

Bye! Luke

Dinosaur It Coming

Hello humans and non-humans

I hope all is well. I have been a bit remiss with lack of blogging. I assure you it is due to being busy and not that I am ignoring you. I would never do that. A couple of album artwork projects are completed and I’ll post about them soon, but for now I have a couple of new poster prints completed so hold on to your hats, or if you aren't wearing a hat pop one on and then hold onto it. 

First up there's a piece that was a genuine joy to work on. Dinosaur Jr's management contacted me asked if I would do a poster for one of the shows on their Euro tour. In the end I designed a poster advertising both the Swedish dates. It features wolves being repelled by an unseen explosion...and why not? Look at all of it with all of your eyes now and then go and buy one HERE:

I also recently did another poster for those good folk at The Local for the always excellent Shhh Festival. The festival was held for the first time at the rather stunning Heath St Baptist Church in Hampstead and the prints feature a broken Astral Space Module silently plummeting to the surface of an unknown planet. I'm sure the astroman will be fine. Probably. I have a very limited number to sell myself so if you like how it appears to your head vision balls you can buy one HERE:

That's it for now, lots coming up so I will return. Oh yes. Now be gone, all of you. 

Luke

 

 

Twas A New 'The Black Keys' Print Before Xmas...

...and all through the house, the printer was printing, as fast as a mouse...

I have no idea how fast a mouse can print. Not large-scale anyway...

 

Hello all. Welcome to my final blog nonsense of 2012. As promised I have one last print for the year, however due to a printing malfunction it will strictly speaking be a print for the beginning of 2013. Here's what happened.

I designed a poster for The Black Keys show on 13th December 2012 at O2 Arena in London that looks like this:

Due to various hiccups, my personal quota of the prints will not be turning up until the first week in Jan 2013. However as I have had quite a few emails from people about them, I have decided to offer the first 30 of my copies up for pre-order HERE. These will ship the moment they are in my sweaty hands, which as I mentioned will be the first week in Jan. As it stands I think I will have 40 copies from the 200 edition plus some A/Ps too.

Anyways, that is all for the year. I hope you like the new Black Keys print and all the other arty nonsense I have pumped out over the year. As for 2013, expect more comic strips and books, a counting aid for kids, more posters and prints and a load of new sculpture stuff. It will all be adequate.

Merry Christmas you massive world!

Luke

 

Poverty, colouring-in and good times - An interview with Luke Drozd

Hello again everyone.

Well, everyone that reads these things. Lots of people are very busy and don't have time. I can't blame them. There's tons of things I don't read. Sometimes I even lie and say I do...but I don't.

But that's off topic, what I really wanted to tell you about was some more words elsewhere.

Sometimes people ask me questions about how and why I waste my time. My responsiveness to the questions varies depending on a series of random factors. Well for whatever reason I got one recently from Portalsmusic.com that I decided I would not answer like a goon. That doesn't mean I don't sound like a goon, but that wasn't the intention for once. Read it with your vision orbs here:

THIS IS WHERE THE ANSWERS LIVE!

That is all for now. There may well be a couple of last bits before xmas to post about but I will keep you, well....posted.

Bestest, Luke

 

Xmas Sale - DON'T LET SANTA DIE!

Hello all

Christmas is nearly upon us and Santa needs presents to fill his sack. If there are not enough presents in his sack, he will float away into space...where he will DIE! Or so legend says...

"But Luke, what is the best way to ensure this catastrophe doesn't happy?", I hear you shout! Well, it's to buy things from my online store and then send them to Santa to deliver, that's how. And to help out at my end, I have decided to have a limited xmas shop sale! Here's the deal:

15% off when you buy £30 worth of handcrafted joy from http://lukedrozd.bigcartel.com/ and then enter BULGINGSACK in discount code section at checkout. Simple as that.

Offer will be on until Sunday 9th December at Midnight. If by then Santa's sack is still not bulging, all we can do is pray. 

Merry Christmas Mortals! 

Luke

Buy these posters or the fox gets it...

Hello friendly folks! Slightly threatening title. When I say 'the fox gets it', I mean the poster. I will not kill it. 

Christmas is fast approaching and I am fighting the urge to do nothing but eat and drink and stay inside the house under a blanket. Alas, the nonsense I make will not make itself so I continue to fill the world with stuff. With that in mind, look! New posters!

First off the bat is my new SHHH poster. A day of quiet music, SHHH has been going for a few years now, the first one being in Leeds and organised by myself and Drew Millward. Now run by the good folk at The Local, it is taking a jaunt to Glasgow. I made a lovely poster of a sneaky fox for it. I quite like it and I hope you do too. It is available HERE: http://lukedrozd.bigcartel.com/product/shhh-quiet-music-festival-poster 

Second up we have my poster for Ben Folds Five as part of the reunion tour series set up by the Richard Goodall Gallery in Manchester. My poster features an entire town getting together to celebrate inside a massive dragon outfit. It is available now HERE: http://lukedrozd.bigcartel.com/product/ben-folds-five-poster

That is all for now. One last poster for 2012 and the follow up to Dark Days is well underway.

Ta-ra, Luke.

Art of the Matter

Hello all,

So we are in November already and it's that time of year when I start to battle the urge to wind down for the holiday season. But never fear, due to a crippling work load and niggling sense of guilt I cannot be stopped. 

First off, here's a few images of recent finished works from the stduio. The first couple, Mono e Mono and Process of Choice, where featured in the Everything is Present Tense show at York College Gallery. The other two, A Frame and The Other Half are new works, fresh from my brain:

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Second, I now have photos of all the spreads from the recent 38b Projects publication Wife Drawing Two: Still Wife, which I helped put together and that also featured a recent work Untitled-1 1 6/10/12 14:21:19. These were made for the Art Licks birthday bash at the ICA, London but we do have a very small amount of copies available. These can be purchased HERE. Here's what it looks like in all it's glory:

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And finally, the gallery at York College has sent over some more comprehensive photos of Everything is Present Tense, so for those who have asked me to see more images of the show, here they are:

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That's all for now. More on new illustrative bits soon, Luke