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:

See the full gallery on Posterous

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:

See the full gallery on Posterous

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:

See the full gallery on Posterous

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

Wife Drawing Two: Still Wife

As Winter draws in and the cold nights threaten to consume us, I bring you exciting news about what we at 38b are up to. Good going us!

For those of you who don't know, 38b is an onging series of exhibitions, projects and publications curated and facilitated by myself and Eva Rowson. It started as a series of shows in our living room and has since begun to take us onto other places and ventures. The living room shows still take place, it's just sometimes nice to get out of the house. 

The first bit of news is we finally have a website, 38bprojects.com, that documents all we have done so far including images and text about each show. It also contains information on our latest project, Wife Drawing Two: Still Wife. 

Following on from the exhibition Wife Drawing in 2010 at 38b Peckham Rye, which showcased 28 artists who address the idea of an expanded drawing practice in their work, this sequel will take the form of a 12 page, newsprint publication (edition of 120), that will be part of  the second anniversary shindig for arts listings and magazine Art Licks at the ICA, London, on 20 October 2012. Here's a sneaky peek at Sonnenzimmer's (Nick Butcher and Nadine Nakanishi)  contribution, Handplant:

The night will also play host to a mix of performances, work, readings, interventions, films and artist DJs as well as being the official launch for the most recent editon of Art Licks magazine which, coincidentally, also features an interview with me in it. So there you go.

More info on the Art Licks event can be foound on Facebook HERE or on the ICA website HERE. 

For those of you that can't be at the event and therefore miss out on getting a publication, we should have a comprehensive set of images from the magazine on our site  following the ICA show.

In the meantime, if you have any shows, exhibitions or events that you would like 38b to contribute to, please get in touch.

That's it for now. All the best! Luke