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Gov’t Mule Warfield Posters by Sperry and Hunter

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Dave Hunter and I created and printed a two-up poster for Gov’t Mule when they played Friday and Saturday, September 25 and 26, 2009 at the Warfield, Firehouse Goldenvoice Poster Series numbers 66 and 67.

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These were printed together on one parent sheet and cut apart, so the challenge was to bring out the best in each artist while sharing the same color palette. We chose to print a heavy silver metallic and tint the silver with three custom mixed primary colors and black.

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Both posters are available here in a limited offering.

A very limited release of uncut sheets containing both posters will be made at TRPS Festival of Poster at the Hall of Flowers in San Francisco’s Golden Gate Park on Saturday, October 10, from 10 am to 6pm.

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Gov’t Mule

Firehouse Goldenvoice Series Numbers 66 and 67

Editon of 225

5 colors on heavy cover stock

22″ x 16″

Signed and Numbered

Gov’t Mule SF 09 Sperry –

single poster – FHGV #67

Sold Out – Thank You!

Gov’t Mule SF 09 Hunter Sperry –

set of two posters – FHGV #66 & #67

Sold Out – Thank You!

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Ogilvy Extends Firehouse Show through October

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Chuck Sperry and Ron Donovan of The Firehouse Kustom Rockart Company have been presenting an overview of their most recent hand printed silkscreen poster work at Ogilvy in San Francisco.

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Original run: June 4 to August 4, 2009

Show has been extended through October 2009

Enjoy the rare opportunity to visit ad agency Ogilvy’s art gallery, usually only seen by employees and clients. Rather than adorn it’s walls with traditional corporate-approved artwork, the creative forces at the agency have commissioned a who’s who of pop-artists to adorn their hallways with challenging new art.

Ogilvy
111 Sutter Street
10th Floor
SF, CA 94104

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Phoenix Poster Wins Award

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I was working late last night finishing two posters for the Friday and Saturday concerts at the Warfield featuring Gov’t Mule; Dave Hunter and I each designed a poster and printed them together as a two-up (more news on that poster soon!). That’s when I got the news that my Phoenix Poster had won Expresso Beans Poster of the Week.

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Dave was taking photos of the Gov’t Mule two-up poster with his iphone to send a progress report to Ron Donovan who is out in Hawaii on a family visit. Dave suddenly got a text message from George Gamboa and said, “Dude! Phoenix just got Poster of the Week.”

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Thanks everyone! That’s awesome news – your continued support keeps the presses happily running over at Hangar 18.

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Here’s a link to my original post for my Phoenix poster with ordering information

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Printing Zoltron’s Psychedelic Furs • Happy Mondays at the Regency

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This photo sums it up nicely: “Wiley, the kid on the poster; Zoltron, the man behind the kid on the poster; Sperry, the man behind the man behind the kid on the poster.”

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Printed Zoltron’s Psychedelic Furs / Happy Mondays poster on Wednesday. What a blast!

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Zoltron went off on the typography. He told me it took a few days just to place all the characters, highlights and blends on the fonts.

This thing is a symphony of yellow, really an eye grabber.

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We had really the best day of printing, and had a lot of cool visitors. George Gamboa, Dave Hunter and Dennis Loren made the scene – here’s the TMZ photo of the crew – George is behind the camera. Oh, yeah, while printing the doorbell rang and a mysterious crate from Italy arrived – the Malleus art got locked into the vault.

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Well, the funny part is we got finished at 8:30 pm Wednesday – so Zoltron and George dropped me off at my crib – and I started working on Phoenix. That drawing session went on to dawn. Caught about an hour of fitful sleep (too much coffee), woke up at 7:00 am and put the poster together for films. The whole idea just kind of dropped whole-piece out of the brain and onto the paper, definitely energized by the fun day before. Mr. Z picked me up at about 10:30 and off to get films on the way to the studio. I’m telling myself, things just happen in the way they should.

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Number 62 in the Firehouse Goldenvoice poster series is designed by Zoltron for The Psychedelic Furs and Happy Mondays concert with special guests Amusement Parks on Fire on September 17, 2009 at the Regency Ballroom in San Francisco, CA. This silkscreen gig poster measures 20″ x 27″ comes signed and numbered by the artist from an edition of 200. Love my way? There is a special red and white colorway, with an edition of 10. Both for sale now at Zoltron.com

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