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Our inquiring minds weren't content just to look at Arik Roper's new print, ""The Sighting"" we're set to release tomorrow. So we asked him what was behind it. Here's what he had to say- ""The Sighting illustrates a metaphor of gaining insight and perspective from a new position. The Ice Age era hunter and his Wolf companion represent the Mind in its unadvanced stages, wandering and laboriously ascending the mountain in search of nourishment. The floating Apparition represents the Revelation flash of the advanced Mind, gained from the new point of view and progress on the mountain. The encounter initially appears as a meeting of two separate entities but is ultimately a meeting with the self."" The Sighting will be available in our webstore starting Thursday, Jan 29th 2pm central time.    Photos- Bjorn Christianson

The crew over at Manifest Clothing just asked me 11 questions and I did my best to answer them truthfully and interestingly. You be the judge.

Preliminary sketch for The Blinding Light's forthcoming full length album, Junebug, to be released via INIT Records spring 2009. Expect an art print...

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do you read Vice? how about Skateboarder? if you answered yes to AT least one of those questions then there is a SLIGHT chance you saw this Volcom ad of Mark Appleyard that is in both of those magazines this month, if you actually saw it im sure you didnt notice the photo credit on it did you? no? thats what i thought, well today is your lucky day! cus not only have i posted the ad below, but im also going to tell you who shot the photo... thats right folks, i (Todd Bratrud) shot it!! its actually not that big of a deal, but i kinda like the photo so i figured i would share.

Followers of the indie rap universe are hopefully familiar with Minneapolis' own P.O.S. Our homie since day one, we've had the chance to work with Mr. Pissed-Off Stef on a number of occassions. In 2006, we designed and printed his ""P.O.S is Ruining My Life"" tour poster. Here's P.O.S autographing one of the last available copies of said poster at our 2008 SXSW Flatstock booth. He was one of the musical acts at the very very first art show at First Amendment Arts back in September 2006 and he brought the rest of his Doomtree crew with him: Soooo yeah, our folks over at Rhymesayers Entertainment are just a few days away from releasing ""Never Better,"" the new album from the rapper we've been blabbing about this whole time. Not only is the music super damn good (bonus factoid - Burlesque's DJ Mike 2600 did some scratches on one of...

A lot of people have been inquiring about the special Melvins stuff we recently produced and when it was going to be made available on the site. Well, the time is nigh! If this came as a surprise to you, then it means you aren't on our awesome mailing list that hips peeps to such nuggets of info. Or maybe your email changed and you didn't update with us. Well, all you have to do to fix the situation is send an email to: orders@burlesquedesign.com requesting to be added to our mailing list. We'll get you added on and we can put all this ugliness behind us. BONUS: The people have spoken! We are now selling the items from the combo packages individually! Only want the shirt? Boom. Only want the 3CD set and not the shirt? Boom.

As Bjorn mentioned earlier in our blog, we just wrapped production on a new poster for Chicago's great music archaeology record label, The Numero Group. Over the past several years, Numero has hunted and gathered some of the world's most overlooked soul, folk, psychedelic, and disco music from days of yore, repackaging and re-releasing CDs and LPs complete with thoroughly informative liner notes. Numero knows the importance of having great art to go along with great music and we have had the fortune to work with them for several projects, namely the Wayfaring Strangers compilation and the Brotherman soundtrack. One of Numero's best-known series of releases is ""Eccentric Soul,"" collections of songs from specific record labels or producers. Here's Ken Shipley from Numero Group with more information on the series and how it led them to put on a concert: ""Eccentric Soul is a series of compilations that take a...

Since the new year, we've printed some pretty sweet stuff and have a couple of great new projects on deck. Yesterday we got ""The Sighting"" prints back from Arik Roper and they'll be for sale next week here at burlesquedesign.com; we're co-publishing with Mitch at OMGposters.com. We finished up the poster for the new TSOL release on Hurley's label. Art by Jason Maloney. I don't have the scoop on the availability of these. Check out Mike's fine design for Numero Group's Eccentric Soul Review, printed in just two colors! And the next monster we'll be printing is Jacob Bannon's Winterhearts. It's gonna be awesome.

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