Accept the good

Posted on August 6, 2012 by markweiss86

I chatted with a nice lady from Colby Posters in LA and would love to design and order some posters just for the heck of it. But it’s weird I am blogging about a hypothetical letterpress poster project.

“Accept the Good” is from Third Drawer of Australia, available at LACMA or on line. Printed by Colby.

I have in my Earthwise Productions storage space seasoning a stack of Asylum Street Spankers overruns from Colby, circa 1998.

The Spankers didn’t write this but as a title its succintness practically begs for a Colby letter press treatment, “Shave ’em dry”:

 

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About markweiss86

Mark Weiss, founder of Plastic Alto blog, is a concert promoter and artist manager in Palo Alto, as Earthwise Productions, with background as journalist, advertising copywriter, book store returns desk, college radio producer, city council and commissions candidate, high school basketball player, and blogger; he also sang in local choir, fronts an Allen Ginsberg tribute Beat Hotel Rm 32 Reads 'Howl' and owns a couple musical instruments he cannot play
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