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Everyone in Minneapolis right now is bummed the Vikings lost to the Saints last night and is probably bummed about New Orleans in general, so I want to share this poster to celebrate one of my favorite cities in the world. My dad grew up in the Crescent City, so I got to spend a lot of time there as a child, even living there for a year when I was 4 years old. It's impossible to visit New Orleans and not get mesmerized by the music, food, and people. I found this poster at my grandparents' house about two years ago. Fortunately their house was unharmed by the hurricane and I was able to pull all sorts of old magazines and books from there, several of which I've already shared on the blog.This poster, illustrated by the ungoogleable artist Gayle Grout in 1983, really captures alot of what I...

One of our favorite local radio stations, 89.3 The Current, just hit their five year anniversary. Part of Minnesota Public Radio, The Current has been supporting great local music and artists since the beginning. We've had a chance to design a handful of posters, t-shirts, and CD packages for the station and were thrilled to design the poster commemorating five years of music being broadcast through the air of Minnesota. Wes and I collaborated on the design, passing bits of Illustrator and Photoshop files back and forth until it was just right: The posters debuted yesterday at the Rock The Cradle event and, if there are any copies left, will be available at The Current's SOLD OUT anniversary concert in the First Avenue mainroom featuring P.O.S, Solid Gold, Lookbook, and more. If you didn't get tickets to that show but want a poster, The Current will have them available on...

Check out this pair of stamps commemorating the 1970 edition of the Universiade, a series of competitive sporting events for Italian University students.

""The Ultimate Man"" t-shirt available in our online store.

I want to share this set of stamps from Netherlands created to promote the Red Cross. I thought it was only appropriate after this week when the notion of first aid seemed to be heavy on a lot of peoples' minds. I really love the illustration style and monochromatic color schemes in these.

This Thursday, we will be releasing a new print set from John Baizley, based on the album artwork from his group Baroness' Blue Record. They will be sold as a diptych and not as individual prints. In today's newsletter, we wrote the print was 3 colors, but it is, in fact, 4 colors. We apologize for the error. Until Thursday, BRLSQ crew

Thank you thank you thank you to EVERYONE who came to check out A Visit from BRLSQ at Lower Haters gallery in San Francisco this past Friday night. There sure were a bunch of you there. If you missed it, our prints will be hanging up in the shop for the next month. Lower Haters is located at 597 Haight St. at Steiner in the Lower Haight, just around the corner from our buddies at Upper Playground.

...comin' through with beats books for which I been searchin'.Extra special shout out to the one Cool Chris who hooked me up with this great children's book while I was in his store over the weekend. Written and illustrated by John J. Reiss in 1974, the book introduces basic shapes and shows some larger forms to be made from them, all hosted by a band of friendly forest critters.Click image for larger viewClick image for larger viewClick image for larger viewClick image for larger view

Kinda wishing I was on an exotic spice bath island right now instead of in the middle of this snow and shitstorm, but what can you do? This poster was designed around 1970 by American-born graphic artist Les Mason, who spent a good deal of his career and life in Australia.Click image for larger viewLes Mason passed away in October 2009. You can read more about his life and work right here.