Detroit Punk Flyers from 1985-1988

A collection of zeroxed-style punk rock flyers from the eighties, found in this Flickr set by DetroitDerek.

Limited Edition screenprints and posters by The Silent Giants

The Silent Giants recently released this cool 3-color print on standard "Thick Ass Black Paper."  It's available for 30 bucks at their online shop here.  Kinda like it, it brings up casino vibes mixed with sunflower-esque imagery mixed with some 60's horror film poster.  Whatever they were on when they made this, I want some.

Spoon gig poster available at The Silent Giants store

One of the most elegant gig posters I've seen in a while, for Animal Collective.

Gig poster designed for The National, sold out here.

Dirty Projectors gig poster designed for this year's 2010 Satsquatch Music Festival.

Who doesn't love Twilight Zone and Saul-Bass inspired posters?

Sadly, this Modest Mouse poster is also sold out.

St. Vincent screenprint available here.

The Silent Giants designed some of the coolest posters for the Fleet Foxes.  Too bad they're all sold out.

Really cool screenprint for the Flight of the Conchords.

Bright Eyes gig poster available for $25 here.

LINKS:
The Silent Giants homepage.
The Silent Giants blog.
Flyer Goodness' previous post on The Silent Giants here:

The Silent Giants

The Silent Giants

This is one of those posters that look deceptively simple but in reality are loaded with tons of minute details that you have to see up close, or in person, to appreciate.  Scroll down for some of the detail in the process pictures or at their blog.

Now this is a beauty.  Purchase it at Absofacto's website and also get all of their songs they've made to date.  Pretty sweet deal.

Theres a lot of red here, but it isn't overwhelming.  I hate how in my visual memory bank, red hunting caps are owned by Holden Caulfield in JD Salinger's Catcher in the Rye.  Print available here.

 

Edit: It's hard to appreciate this poster's golden ink and texture from the previous photo, but you can see it better in this one here:

I dont know why The Deadweather didn't like these posters, but I think they're pretty interesting in a dark way.  I really likethe juxtoposition of the dark and rough imagery with the crisp and tight typography at the bottom.

The Tallest Earth poster available here.

From their blog, I can only tell a few things about The Silent Giants: they're a design group located in or near Michigan, and they love silk-screening.  You can tell right away from the big names on their gig posters that they've been recognized as having some real talent, and I don't think many people can argue with that.  If you're loving these, consider checking out more of their prints over at their bigcartel shop. 

And I know that everyone loves checking out the creative process behind designing posters and flyers, so here are some of the process pictures I found on The Silent Giants' blog.   Bask in their gigantic, silent silkscreen goodness:

Gary Grimshaw

 

 

 

 

 

One of the legendary gig poster artists, Gary Grimshaw helped to shape the poster scene in his native Detroit, contributing his psychadelic and zany style since the 1960's.  Check out his website to see more of his work.

Happy Daze

Happy Daze can bend your mind like a plastic spoon near a stove with a deviant, trippy style that is unavoidable.  It's great to see really detailed flyers that still have a human element to them, in the sense of lines and typography at the very least.