Jim Sherraden: Preservation Through Production
Letterpress rock star Jim Sherraden of Nashville’s Hatch Show Print will speak at 6 p.m. Tuesday, March 22, at the Brown Center at MICA, 1301 W. Mt. Royal Ave. The event is free and open to all, and the lecture also marks the official announcement that MICA will be acquiring a substantial part of the [...]
That’s right…Time to give away some posters!
If you’re a fan of our 7th anniversary, limited-edition poster that we recently screen printed at Globe Poster but you missed the chance to get your hands on one at the Paper Show last Thursday, now is your time to win one! In an effort to explore some of our other social media channels there [...]
Fine Art, Handmade Gifts & Unusual Objects
MICA’s Art Market is here! The MICA (Maryland Institute College of Art) Art Market is a venue for the sale of original artwork and handcrafted pieces created by more then 250 students, faculty, staff and alumni. The event, which lasts for four days, is a perfect opportunity for holiday shoppers and helps to provide funding [...]
1 of 1500
“1 0f 1500″ is a 10-Year retrospective book highlighting the collaboration between JDK (Jager Di Paola Kemp) Design, Higher Ground, and the Iskra Print Collective. It showcases over 120 silk-screened music posters and features comments by the designers and the bands themselves. The cover is silkscreened and hand-numbered out of 1500 copies (hence the title [...]
Trip to Globe Printing
Remember those sweet screenprinted pinball posters we gave away last year for the five year party? Ever since having them printed we have promised ourselves a trip to see where the magic takes place at Globe printing and last week we finally got the chance to go behind the scenes and experience the hands on [...]
Maryland Film Fest Week
The filmmakers are coming! In just a few days, May 7-10 to be exact, Orange Element will be attending the 11th Annual Maryland Film Festival. In celebration, we will be giving away 2 limited-edition silkscreen posters designed by OE and printed by VGKids. The first national or international reader to respond will be mailed a [...]
Freebie Friday!
In keeping with the theme of our HOW Magazine posts this week, here’s an orange element pinball based wallpaper to bring some retro-fun to your desktop. 1024×768 (best for standard) 1680×1050 (best for widescreen) Enjoy! —EJ www.orange-element.com
Orange Element HOW Giveaway Part 2!
UPDATE: We’ve now contacted the 5 winners of our poster contest–thanks for your support! It’s time for Part 2 of our 2009 HOW International Design Awards giveaway! This time, we’re doing things a little differently. To give more people a chance at winning a poster (shown below), all you have to do is post a comment [...]
Gig Posters Volume 1
If music and poster art is your thing, this is the perfect book for you! Some of you might be familiar with the poster website and community GigPosters, which is a great resource for artists and fans alike, and is home to almost 8,000 designers and almost 100,000 posters! According to the website, this book “includes [...]
Rock Poster Movie
This one has Andy Bonner’s name written all over it. Ok, not really, but I know for a fact he’s going to secure the DVD the moment it becomes available. It’s a documentary titled Died Young, Stayed Pretty and here’s one of the promotional posters that were created for the film: Awesome stuff – hopefully [...]
Poster Giveaway Part Deux
UPDATE: Thanks, all, for the great comments and emails you have been sending me about the poster. I’m glad everyone enjoys them as much as we do. Unfortunately, we only have a limited number to give away, and I’m in the process of emailing everyone back to let you know if you will receive one. [...]
Win A Limited Edition Orange Element Poster
Those of you lucky enough to go to our 5th Anniversary party probably already have one of these, but the rest of you are going to want one. To commemorate our firm’s big achievement we created a collaborative screenprinted poster that was worked on by each and every staff member. We were really excited about [...]
Fort #2
Isn’t this a killer…SCREENPRINT? Yes, folks-the above image is not a photo, but a limited edition Art Print by none other than Dan MacAdam of Crosshair Studios in Chicago. Dan’s work is absolutely outstanding, and if you haven’t seen it in person, you don’t know what you’re missing! His attention to detail and color is [...]
A Good Day…or a Great Day?
I thought everyone here at the Orange Element office would be able to relate to these prints…mainly because of my poster obsession! They are a set by artist Ian Millard and the title is “Good Day/Great Day”. In case you haven’t figured out the message, it’s always a good day when the mail carrier brings [...]
Maryland Film Festival Poster
Hi all, Here’s some more poster love, this time from me instead of Andy. You might remember my post about winning work with The Maryland Film Festival to promote their Friends of the Festival program. If not, click HERE. With the Festival itself set to begin tomorrow, we’ve just finished our first project with them. [...]
I Love Posters
I like to design them, collect them, look at them, talk about them, think about them. I even dream about posters sometimes. Over the years, as a result of my pursuit of the perfect poster collection, I’ve amassed a great library of knowledge about posters that I thought I’d share with you. Enjoy: Communities: http://www.gigposters.com [...]
SWEET :: Rock Poster Show
Everyone should make time to check out one of the best events of its kind to ever hit the East Coast. Sweet: The Graphic Beauty of the Contemporary Rock Poster is a 2-month long Rock Poster exhibition at the Art Gallery at the University of Maryland. The show features twenty-nine of the leading artists/groups of [...]
