Im featured in the Green Patriot Posters Book !
Check it out! I’m published!
A few months ago, Jonathan Reimers pointed out a contest to me, suggesting that I enter my “Shit be Meltin’” piece. I did. It was selected to be published, among 50 other artists. The book is called the Green Patriot Posters
Here’s a summary of the book, from Amazon:
This book brings together the strongest contemporary graphic design currently promoting sustainability and the fight against climate change. Collectively, essays by Michael Beirut, Steven Heller, Edward Morris and Dmitri Siegel look back in time to posters and ideas that set the stage for the current movement (World War Two posters, images of international cooperation, posters from the environmental movement in the 1960s and 1970s) and address the state of the poster: what is the efficacy and mode of distribution for purposeful, message-oriented graphic images today? Thomas L. Friedman advocates for “a redefined, broader and more muscular green ideology that can be the basis of a new unifying political movement for the twenty-first century.” The bulk of the book is given over to a compilation of the best posters on the theme of sustainability by a variety of contemporary artists (both emerging and established), among them Shepard Fairey, Michael Beirut, DJ Spooky, James Victore and Geoff McFetridge. These posters, which have a strong graphic presence and which never rest on the tired slogans of the past (“Save the Earth,” etc.), show that graphic design does not passively respond to the zeitgeist–it helps shape it. The book, which is sustainably printed in the U.S., reproduces 50 of these posters as tear-outs. Also included is a section on action, with documentation of designs at work in the world: on buses, billboards, protesters’ placards, graffiti, t-shirts and so on. This movement is about a new form of patriotism, one that exhibits pride of place, but not fear of others.
After being chosen to be featured, I sent Ed a million variations of my original, but he and Dmitri really preferred the original one I designed. I was never quite satisfied with it, and repeatedly revised it, sending Ed version after version of updated work. I have yet to see which variation they ultimately went with, although I have a feeling it’s the original. I’m posting a few here so you can see my process. The last image is the original, the one that I designed in Charmaine’s class, as a second year. At the time, the class loved it, but she didn’t.
I really can’t thank Ed enough for being so patient with me, as I sent him a billion re-designs. THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU! It’s an honor to be featured alongside some of my contemporary design heroes.. Shepard Fairey, Michael Beirut, Geoff McFetridge, Mike Perry.. incredible!
Which one is your favorite?
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