Here you go! Post ‘em on your blogs, your Facebook pages, etc. GET THE WORD OUT!

WHAT: FLATSTOCK 30 at the Pitchfork Music Festival will be held in Chicago, July 15-17 2011. This years Chicago Flatstock will be located along the eastern end of Washington Ave., in Union Park, as in previous years and will be at this rockin’ festival all three days. Don’t wait! Get your Pitchfork ticket today by visiting Ticketweb.

WHEN: Friday, July 15, Saturday, July 16 & Sunday, July 17

WHERE: Pitchfork Music Festival, Union Park, Chicago, Illinois. Flatstock will be located in tents along the eastern end of Washington Ave., in Union Park, as before.

WHO: Current list of participating Flatstock artists:

Empire Press
Crosshair
Judgeworks
Daniel Danger
Drug Factory (Ryan Duggan)
Decoder Ring
Kollective Fusion
Burlesque of North America
Sonnenzimmer
Magnificent Beard
Pink Slip Press (Justin Santora)
The Bubble Process
James Flames Posters
Mile 44
Crash Design
Dan Grzeca
Doublenaut
Jason Munn
Madpixel Art & Design
Aesthetic Apparatus
Dead Meat Design / Rick Leech (sharing)
Will Ruocco Art & Design
Adam Hanson
Screwball Press / Kill Hatsumomo Prints (sharing)
Delicious Design League
Bureau of Print Research & Design (Francisco Ramirez)
Baker prints (Kyle Baker)
Mike Budai
Furturtle Show Prints
DKNG Studios
f2designs (Dirk Fowler)
Lil’ Tuffy
Potter Press
Lure Design Inc.
The Bird Machine
The Bungaloo!
Fugscreens
Kevin Tong Illustration
Rebeletter Studios
Workspace (Mat Daly) / Richie Bearden (sharing)
Nevada Hill
Landland
Silent Giants

Here you go! Brand spanking new set of web banners for everyone designed exclusively for the 29th Flatstock Poster Convention in Austin, Texas by Flatstock artist strawberryluna. Grackles! A cool Austin fixture or a scourge of the town? That’s your call Hoss.

Flatstock artists, virtual street team members & anyone wishing to help promote Flatstock 29 in Austin, Texas during the SXSW Festival, please feel free to use these banners to promote away. Just be sure to include the dates, times, location info below too in any blog posts, etc:

• Dates: March 16th -19th, 2011
• Hours: Wednesday 3/16 from 2:00pm – 6:00pm / Thursday 3/17 through Saturday 3/11 11:00am – 6:00pm
• Location: Austin Convention Center, Level 1, Ballrooms A,B,C

The banners are in the following sizes (in pixels):

• 488 x 700 (above)
• 348 x 500 (below)
• 250 x 312 (below)
• 728  x 90 (below)

Flatstock Season for 2011 is now officially open! The very first Flatstock Poster Convention of the year will once again be held in Austin, Texas during the SXSW Festival. This is our 29th Flatstock to date, and the Austin Flatstock is always FREE  to attend & definitely wide open to the public. We are in a new room this year, so check below for a convenient map to help you find over 75 poster artists from around the world displaying & selling their rock posters. Hope to see you there!

Dates:

• Wednesday March 16th – Saturday March 19, 2011

Hours:

• Wednesday 3/16 – 2pm – 6pm  (note this is the ONLY half day)
• Thursday 3/17 – 11am – 6pm
• Friday 3/18 – 11am – 6pm
  
• Saturday 3/19 – 11am – 6pm
  

Location:

• Austin Convention Center – Level 1, Ballrooms A, B, C at 500 E. Cesar Chavez St., Austin, TX 78701 (see map below)

You DO NOT need to have badges to be able to attend Flatstock 29. It’s FREE & open to the public! For more info on Flatstock 29 & the SXSW Festival click here.

The FLATSTOCK poster show series is presented by the American Poster Institute (API). It is an ongoing series of exhibitions featuring the work of many of the most popular concert poster artists working today.

The API is a nonprofit corporation dedicated to serving poster artists and promoting the art form. Both the API and its FLATSTOCK series were organized in 2002 as a result of conversations between interested artists and supporters frequenting the popular website GigPosters.com. The best concert posters have always captured both the essence of the music they promoted and the spirit of the time in which they were produced. This is as true today as it was in San Francisco during the Sixties.

The FLATSTOCK shows provide the general public with an ongoing series of opportunities to see fine poster art in person and to meet the artists who’ve created it — they provide the API with a way to present the poster artists collectively while showcasing the breadth of individual styles they represent.

THE LIST OF PARTICIPATING FLATSTOCK 29 ARTISTS (subject to change):

Adam Pobiak

Animal Rummy

Anville

BadMoon Studios

Billy Perkins

The Bird Machine Inc

Boss Construction

BRIANEWING.com

The Bungaloo

Burlesque of North America

Carlos Hernandez

Clintprints

Cricket Press

Crosshair

Dan Grzeca/Ground-Up

Dan Stiles

Daniel Danger

Decoder Ring Design Concern

Delicious Design League

DKNG

Douze Studio Dresden

Empire Press

f2design

Furturtle Show Prints

Ghost-Town Studios

GIGART

Gigposters.com

guyburwell

Hero Design Studio

Hosco Press

Idiot or Genius?

Industry Print Services

Insurgent Arts

James Flames

Jason Munn

John Howard / Monkeyink

Kevin Tong Illustration

Kollective Fusion

La-La Land Posters

Landland

Lil Tuffy

Lure Design

MadPixel

Magnificent Beard

Mercerrock

Methane Studios, Inc

Micah Smith

Mig Kokinda

Mike Budai

Mike King/Crash Design

Nakatomi

Nevada Hill

OchoLocoPress

Pedal Printing

Powerhouse Factories

Powerslide Design Co

Rural Rooster

Sandusky Bay Poster Works

Shawn Knight

The Silent Giants

South Austin Popular Culture Cen…

Squeegeeville.com

STANDARD DELUXE

strawberryluna

Subject Matter Studio

Tara McPherson – Cotton Candy Ma…

Todd Slater

Two Arms Inc

UKPA

Uncle Charlie

Under Pressure Screen Printing

Vahalla Studios

VGKids

Voodoo Catbox

Vrooooom Press

Young Monster

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Here ya go!! Here are a few web banners to promote Flatstock 28 at the Reeperbahn Festival in Hamburg, Germany.
Get these up on your blogs, post them on Facebook, whatever. If you want to have the banners link back somewhere, send folks here.

Thanks!!

Going to the Bumbershoot Music Festival?

Planning to come by and check out all of the great Flatstock 27 artists?

How would you like to win an amazing poster pack FULL of goodies from the Flatstock 27 artists?

Bumbershoot is celebrating 40 years this year!!

******All you need to do is post a comment on this blog and tell us your favorite Bumbershoot memory. THAT’S IT!!******

A winner will be chosen at random on Friday, Septemeber at 10am PDT!

The rules and stuff:

* You need to be attending the Bumbershoot Music Festival either on Sunday or Monday to be able to claim your prize IN PERSON at the API booth at Flatstock 27 in the Fisher Pavilion.

* When commenting YOU MUST include your email in your posting info and include your first name, last initial in the actual post. These will be asked when you are picking up your prize. For example your comment should read something like “My favorite memory for Bumbershoot is blah blah blah – Jennifer S.”

You will be contacted via that email on Friday morning to notify you of your win.

* If you do not pick up your prize by Monday night at 7pm, you will forfeit the goods and they will be donated. SORRY KIDS!

(a little side note – when we ran this contest for Flatstock 26, the prize pack contained over 70 posters, valued at over $1400. This will be HUGE. Get in on it!)

Here ya go!! Here are a few web banners to promote Flatstock 27 at Bumbershoot Music Festival in Seattle.
Get these up on your blogs, post them on Facebook, whatever. If you want to have the banners link back somewhere, send folks here.

Thanks!!

Heading to Seattle for Bumbershoot and Flatstock 27? Make sure to catch Drawing Rock & Roll: Jay Ryan and Brad Klausen

Poster artist Jay Ryan will discuss screenprinted posters with The Jesus Lizard’s David Yow, along with Brad Klausen. Known for his hand-drawn type, humorous animal subjects, and muted color selections, Jay Ryan has been making concert posters for the past 15 years, while Brad Klausen has previously worked as in-house designer for Pearl Jam. Both have recently published collections of their best work.

Drawing Rock & Roll: Jay Ryan and Brad Klausen

Venue: Leo K. Theatre, Words and Ideas Stage
Time: Monday, 9/6/2010 7:15 pm- 8:15 pm

See you there!

1. Seeing Elyse from MMM be a completely femme tough-ass show up to Flatstock, concussion & all.

2. The amazing poster artist community helping each other scurry & batton down the hatches as the one & only rain storm hit Sunday morning. It’s so fantastic to be a part of an artists’ community that checks on each other while trying take care of own artwork (paper, in the rain…not good!) at the same time. I love you guys!

3. While it was only a blur as I ran by them MFing & yelling my head off at some fence-hopping kids who’d crashed down My Associate Cornielius’ Michah’s ENTIRE booth, the looks on Kevin Tong & Daniel Danger’s faces were golden.

The loot.

Emily going through her winnings!

Congratulations again to Emily S. – the Flatstock 26 poster pack giveaway winner! Emily was chosen at random (using random.org) on Friday July 16 and she picked up her loot on Saturday at the Pitchfork Music Festival! Emily snagged over 70 posters and prints from Flatstock 26 poster artists, for a combined value of over $1400!!

Thank you to all that participated and thank you to the artists for their wonderful generosity. Stay tuned for more contests and giveaways!