The Poster Art of Mike Joyce

This is some really cool stuff right here. Swissted is an ongoing project by graphic designer Mike Joyce, owner of stereotype design in new york city. Drawing from his love of punk rock and swiss modernism, two movements that have absolutely nothing to do with one another, mike has redesigned vintage punk, hardcore, and indie rock show flyers into international typographic style posters. Each poster is sized to the standard swiss kiosk dimensions of 35.5 inches wide by 50 inches high and set in berthold akzidenz grotesk medium, all lowercase. There are over a hundred in the collection currently covering all your favorite bands from high school including, Bad Religion, The Descendents, ALL, Nirvana, Sound Garden, Gorilla Biscuits, Helmet, PIL, The Dead Kennedys, Sick of It All, Naked Raygun, 88 Fingers Louie, Bikini Kill, Pennywise, Rich Kids On LSD, Slapshot, Pegboy and many many more.  Every single one of these shows actually happened.

Mike Joyce Posters - picture slideshow

Scratch Acid playing Webster Hall in NYC

One of my favorite bands of all time has recently reformed for some reunion shows, Scratch Acid. Scratch Acid was an Austin, Texas noise rock group formed in 1982... The band was named by music journalist Will Lerner as "the American equivalent of the Birthday Party." For those not familiar the bands members have been involved in s slew of acts. Brett Bradford went on to form Colorado punk band Great Caesar's Ghost. They disbanded in 1993. He also formed Sangre De Toro and played with Areola 51. Washam went on to perform with many other bands, including the Big Boys, Ministry, Helios Creed, the Didjits, Lard, and Tad. In 1987, Sims and Washam joined Steve Albini in the band Rapeman, which disbanded just before Sims reunited with Yow in 1989 to form my all time favorite band The Jesus Lizard. I saw Scratch Acid about 5 years ago when they reformed to play Touch & Go’s 25 year anniversary and it was well worth the trip to Chicago to do so, make sure you catch these guys while you can.

Scratch Acid -- 2011 Tour Dates
Tue 11/1 Variety Playhouse, Atlanta GA
Wed 11/2 Cat's Cradle, Carrboro NC
Fri 11/4 9:30 Club, Washington DC
Mon 11/7 Webster Hall, NYC, NY
Fri 11/11 Lee's Palace, Toronto, ON
Sat 11/12 Metro, Chicago, IL
Tue 12/13 El Rey Theatre, Los Angeles, CA
Wed 12/14 The Fillmore, San Francisco, CA
Sat 12/17 Neumos, Seattle, WA

BONUS:
A little taste for the unfamiliar...

David Yow art exhibition opening @ Fuse Gallery

Jesus Lizard frontman David Yow will showcase his new collection of work "GLASS GAS MASK at Fuse Gallery in NYC TONIGHT (8/24) with an opening reception at 7PM. The exhibition runs through September 21st. 

Working both digitally and by hand, artist and musician David Yow produces a body of work that has a a dark sense of humor. He utilizes design elements of line, texture, and shape in conjunction with found images and objects to enhance, alter and create graphically bold imagery with an edge. In his digital works, Yow delineates images to exaggerate an emotion to absurdity; and in the paintings, he integrates acrylic, collage, charcoal, pencil, spit, hair, crayon, wood, etc. to craft a deviant somewhat biomorphic creation, that is, or was, living .

While having an illustrious music career in the bands Scratch Acid and the Jesus Lizard, David Yow also has a long time passion for visual art. In his pre-punk college years, David completely submerged himself in painting and drawing

Despite being previously featured in other exhibitions in the NYC area, tonight is Yow's first solo venture in our fair city. Preview some more of his work at his website.

Captain Consequence, Digital Drawing and Photography, 11 x 14