September has been a fantastic very well spent month in the USA, and very much all about gigposters (and meeting nice people and having good food). Hosted by Portland posterstar Guy Burwell, Mirjam Dijkema and Kunny van der Ploeg (Studio Frontaal) travelled to the US West Coast for a good 3 weeks. We curated a postershow at The Vera Project in Seattle, exhibiting over a 100 posters from the Vera Groningen archives, and also did a talk about big sister Vera to small sister Vera Project, and included also our personal work and influences. Oh and we gave a workshop, as well! In the same week we also attended Flatstock 31 at the Fisher Pavillion, Seattle Bumbershoot festival, a 3 day poster event full of posters, posters and posters, and meeting very nice colleagues. Last but not least we had a great day in Portland at the MusicfestNW Poster Mart . It was great to be a part of the very lively posterscene in the US, selling work, sharing work, showing work and we are very much inspired to bring that same liveliness back to the European scene.

25-10-2011

Flatstock details: what is flatstock? The FLATSTOCK poster show series is presented by the American Poster Institute(API). It is an ongoing series of exhibitions featuring the work of many of the most popular concert poster artists working today. The API is a nonprofit corporation dedicated to serving poster artists and promoting the art form. Both the API and its FLATSTOCK series were organized in 2002 as a result of conversations between interested artists and supporters frequenting the popular web site gigposters.com. The best concert posters have always captured both the essence of the music they promoted and the spirit of the time in which they were produced. This is as true today as it was in San Francisco during the Sixties. The FLATSTOCK shows provide the general public with an ongoing series of opportunities to see fine poster art in person and to meet the artists who've created it -- they provide the API with a way to present the poster artists collectively while showcasing the breadth of individual styles they represent.