Print Liberation is the name given to Philadelphia based studio founded and run by Jamie Dillon and Nick Paparone. They’re originally from Dayton, Ohio and met back in 1993, brought together by their shared love of print, design, and culture. They set up in 1999 and stayed after hours to print t-shirts and stickers, which were then sold to impatient people waiting in lines at shows and parties. They have recently released their own Print Liberation book and now have a full time business of making things for the world and it’s people. We’re also very proud to say that they have designed an exclusive T-shirt for the first ever It’s Nice That shop collection.
What have you got planned this week?
To start printing an order for 5000 of the I survived the bush administration shirts. (literally)
What do your parents think you do?
They think we make funny T-shirts.
Who do you look like?
A white Sean “Puff Daddy” Combs and a young Jon Voit
What’s your favourite sense?
Nonsense
Tell us something people don’t know about you…
One of us has an arm-band tattoo
Did your education count?
Yes. Highly recommend it
What word can’t you spell?
Definitely
Tell us a good fact
Wheatgrass has nursed dying hens back to health.
What’s Next?
Saturn
What’’s your ‘Plan B’?
This is plan B
Luren Jenison prints and paints crazy textiles for spaces big and small. Her designs are inspired by traditional textiles, out of proportion and skewed and blown up to newer weirder scales. Her work has been installed in retail and domestic spaces all over the world.
Ben Peterson makes amazing drawings of alternate-universe-utopic-destruction- reconstructive-horror in graphite and ink. The work is so intensely detailed and accurate that it is often mistaken for a digital print. Mr. Peterson has exhibited globally and is represented by Ratio 3 Gallery.
Warsaw Made is a new company founded by Elsa Shadley It’s basically a one-person operation that makes simple handcrafted fabric wares. She uses mostly cotton canvas, webbings, and linings, and strong metal hardware with the occasional leather works, Warsaw Made draws inspiration from well-made goods of the past. Nice logo too : )
Every once in a while you stumble upon a random site floating in cyberspace that makes you feel the internet is one of the greatest inventions of all time (after movable type of course). The Japanese Gallery of Psychiatric Art archives images from Japanese psychiatric medication advertisements from 1956-2003. On display are some amazingly strange concepts and Illustration that boggle the brain. Unfortunately I can’t read Japanese but it seems as though this site was complied by Haruki Kazano. The 70’s must have been an amazing tome to live in Japan.
Paul Coors is a splendid artist and graphic designer living and working in Cincinnati Ohio. Mr. Coors co-founded and ran the renown gallery Publico (R.I.P.) where he produced most of it’s graphic output. He designed and hand printed many brilliant posters and other ephemera for galleries, musicians, wierdos and more. We find Paul’s typography to be especially great.
