How to Create Your Own Gig Posters, Band T-Shirts, Album Covers, & Stickers: Screenprinting, Photocopy Art, Mixed-Media Collage, and Other Guerilla Poster Styles

by Ruthann Godollei

Overview

Whether your band is just starting out or touring the nation, here’s how you can build its identity by making your own unique gig posters, custom T-shirts, album covers, record sleeves, and stickers. Fans want cool and creative band merchandise, and this book gives you the tools and information you need to create your own. Author Ruthann Godellei is an artist and printmaking professor at Macalester College in St. Paul, Minnesota, with vast experience making gig posters as well as teaching band members how to make their own. She explains, with step-by-step instructions and photos, techniques like screenprinting, photocopy art, mixed-media collage, stencil, stamping, and other guerilla art styles. Included as well is a gallery of art and artists to inspire you in creating your band’s look with your merch.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781610588010
Publisher:	Voyageur Press
Publication date:	03/15/2013
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	160
File size:	103 MB
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About the Author

Ruthann Godellei (St.Paul, MN) is an artist and printmaking professor at Macalester College in St. Paul, Minnesota. Her work is in collections such as the Frederick R. Weisman Museum at the University of Minnesota, Rutgers University, Syracuse University, and the Centre for Fine Print Research, Bristol, UK.

Table of Contents

Introduction
1 Stencils
2 Linocuts and Woodcuts
3 Digital Printing and Photocopies
4 Screenprinting
5 Stamping
6 Now That You Have the Printing Bug . . .
Resources
Index