Because you demanded it! Here it is… The ShutUpsicle!

Originally created for The Design Bureau of Amerika’s successful “Superman vs Darth Vader” exhibit, it has remained our most requested print. The original print was printed on the Gocco system and was only a mere 4″x6″. Now it’s been redesigned and hand printed at the glorious size of 12.5″x19″! It features two new custom mixed colors: “Grey Matters” and “Boogaloo Blue”. This poster will look great in your home, studio or cubicle wall. It’s a signed and numbered limited run of 25, so make sure to order yours today!
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Some of the process shots:

You can see more of the behind the scenes images of this print here and don’t forget to check out The Ink Initiative.

Hello all,

Things have been busy for the Bureau with the launch of The Ink Initiative. This has been an exciting venture for us and a learning experience to say the least. I love screen printing and if I had my way, it is what I would be doing everyday all day. Having said that, I will have to admit that it can also be a very frustrating process. There are so many important steps that need to happen between the initial design phase and the final finished product. Each one of these steps provides a high chance of something going wrong that can either slow down the process or halt it altogether. This is just a fact that I have come to accept and try to deal with because I believe the beauty of the finished print will always trump the difficulties of producing it.

We have received numerous emails from people who enjoy the behind the scenes photos of our process. Many have asked for video tutorials and we have plans to do a some in the future, but right now we just don’t have the time and the necessary resources to put it together the way I would like.  So for the time being, I will continue to post some photos and information on the our  ever evolving process.

Shown below is a sneek peek of our latest print, “Go suck on a Shutupsicle” which was originally designed for the Bureau’s “Superman vs. Darth Vader” exhibit. For this print, we included some new techniques and equipment to help streamline the process and to produce more efficient runs. Well… in theory that was the plan. We hit more snags than I though we would but we also encountered some minor successes as well. So here is a day in the life of a test print. read more

Hey all,

I usually don’t post work until it’s finished, but some of you have contacted me about what’s coming up from Amerikan Made Prints for The Ink Initiative Project. So I thought I would post some images of the next two prints we will soon be rocking out.

The first poster is a reworking of the “Shutupsicle” print from the now classic “Superman vs Darth Vader” exhibit. The original print was done on the Print Gocco system and was only 4″x6″ in size. It is one of the most requested prints to be reprinted at a larger size. The film positives for this poster were shot last week and should arrive in the next few days. We are hoping to print this over the weekend and have it up on the site by early next week.  I will keep you posted to the progress.

The second print is entitled, “Kenny G. ain’t Jazz”. This was a concept that I have been kicking around for a long time now and I had even designed a variation of it awhile back using a photo collage. I decided to re-work it using all illustrations as a small tribute to one of my favorite illustrators, Burt Goldblatt. I still my tweak some of the illustration a little before I send the artwork out to have the positives made, so this one might be a couple of weeks away. Stay Tuned.

>K.

Here are the original brushes that started it all! During the many re-boots and re-designs of the Bureau’s site, I have often forgot to re-post these brushes. They are the first one that I ever created and to be honest, I tend to forget about them.

Apparently there are a number of people who still use them, because I always seems to get at least a few emails a week asking for the brush sets.  I am happy that people still use them and I always mean to create more, but over the last few years I have moved away from digital design and tend to only use Photoshop to layout an idea or finish a project. Maybe I will create some new brush sets in the near future but until then, here is a blast from the past.

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