Celebrating Robert Pollard’s unsinkable still-at-it-ness (new GBV record w/ original line-up coming January 2012) with this poster from the archives (2005). The foundation is the flopped-open gatefold from the LP, From a Compound Eye. I have a bizarre memory for the origins of collage elements in my inventory. The faded red background came from a handmade practice book of basic art and design techniques (basketwoven construction paper patterns, rubbings of maple leaves, goache color studies) that I bought in a thrift store in Sanford, NC shortly before I began this poster. The paper texture was scanned from 1930s sheet music I picked up at an estate sale in Seattle in the late nineties. The lyrics themselves were tapped out on my father’s old manual Olympia, the typewriter he brought to college with him in 1956. The stenciled letters are Gil Sans, designed in 1926. The Merge logo was likely designed in 1989 (shame on me for not knowing), the year of Merge’s inception. So basically, it took about 80 years (and at least 5 or 6 designers) to design this poster.  If you order the record and ask Jay for a poster, he might give you one.

Celebrating Robert Pollard’s unsinkable still-at-it-ness (new GBV record w/ original line-up coming January 2012) with this poster from the archives (2005).

The foundation is the flopped-open gatefold from the LP, From a Compound Eye. I have a bizarre memory for the origins of collage elements in my inventory. The faded red background came from a handmade practice book of basic art and design techniques (basketwoven construction paper patterns, rubbings of maple leaves, goache color studies) that I bought in a thrift store in Sanford, NC shortly before I began this poster. The paper texture was scanned from 1930s sheet music I picked up at an estate sale in Seattle in the late nineties. The lyrics themselves were tapped out on my father’s old manual Olympia, the typewriter he brought to college with him in 1956.

The stenciled letters are Gil Sans, designed in 1926. The Merge logo was likely designed in 1989 (shame on me for not knowing), the year of Merge’s inception. So basically, it took about 80 years (and at least 5 or 6 designers) to design this poster. 

If you order the record and ask Jay for a poster, he might give you one.

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