The latest Jordan Buckley vs. Hero Collab ETID Tour Poster

Every Time I Die 2010 Australian Tour Poster

This is the latest Jordan Buckley vs Hero Design Studio collaborative ETID tour poster. This print is the fourth in a series where the illustration line work is done by Jordan and handed over to us where we handle all the color, typography, the layout and any additional illustration, and of course the screen printing.

This poster sold out while they are on tour in Australia and we have a very limited supply for sale now.

We also still have a few (only about 5) of the last poster for their European Tour available for sale, once both of these posters are sold out they will never be made again.

The Great Ten Dollar Poster Sale at Hero

Beginning this coming Monday, October 5 and every Monday until the end of 2009, we will announce a new poster that will be available for just $10, that week only!! Some quantities will be very limited at that price, so you will have to get 'em quick.

Each $10 poster will be available in store and online** in the Hero web store only!

Also available:

A 5-poster Mystery Tube for only $40. We will choose 5 of the $10 posters at random for your tube.

or

Get a subscription to all 13 posters for just $100. These will only be available from October 5 to October 19 at 12pm EST. These subscriptions will ship the first week in December.

*We are not announcing the posters ahead of time, so each Monday check out the blog and our website to find out what that week's $10 poster is. There will be a page on our website where the featured poster will be available for sale, along with all the details about the mystery tube and subscription.

**Online purchases are subject to regular shipping fees.

Hero at the Bumbershoot Music Festival and Flatstock 22

If you are in Seattle this Labor Day Weekend Hero will have a booth at Flatstock 22 at Bumbershoot Music Festival - stop by and say Hi and buy some stuffs :) There will be over 60 different poster artists from all over the world displaying and selling their work. Come grab posters and hear the stories behind them straight from the artist. Show up early and be ready to be overwhelmed with amazing posters (you might want to bring some dough too since you won't want to leave empty handed.) FLATSTOCK is an all-ages event.

Bumbershoot Music Festival
Seattle, WA
Sept 5, 6, and 7
11AM to 8PM

Flatstock 22, presented by Bumbershoot Arts And Music Festival and The American Poster Institute, will be held for three days, Saturday, September 5, Sunday September 6 and Monday September 7 at The Fisher Pavillion, Seattle Center in Seattle, WA. You must have a Bumbershoot Music Fest Pass to get access to the Flatstock show.

Find more information on the event and band line up at www.bumbershoot.org


Below is a map of the festival grounds so you can easily find your way to us. Click to view it larger.
(Thanks Strawberryluna)

A little bit more about what Flatstock is:

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 web site 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.

Pitchfork Music Festival Exclusive Posters for Grizzly Bear and Blitzen Trapper

We were lucky enough to work with two great bands, Grizzly Bear and Blitzen Trapper, to create posters for their Pitchfork Music Festival 2009 performances.

These posters will be available exclusively from us at our booth at Flatstock 21 during Pitchfork, Saturday July 18 and Sunday July 19. Read more about these events here.

Get yours before they sell out!! If any copies remain after the festival they will be available in the Hero web store after Monday July 20 (but we make no promises).

Grizzly Bear

Blitzen Trapper

Post Flatstock Wrap Up

So it may be a little overdue, but here it is none the less...

(the only photo we took of our own booth, nice right?)

Flatstock 20 at the SXSW Music Festival was yet another successful and rowdy time for Hero! We came home giddy, wiped out yet somehow refreshed, inspired, full of BBQ, tacos, and margaritas and for me, sicker than hell!

SXSW is the kick off to our travel (carnie) season and we look forward to it as soon as we get home from Flatstock at Bumbershoot in September. We saw a lot of old friends, met some great new people, ran into clients and even friends from Buffalo that we haven't seen since winter set in. Flatstock was 4 days instead of the usual 3 this year, and we found that part to be wonderful, a lot of the hardcore SXSWers that are too busy with day parties and all the goings on of SXSW and even some of the Austinites that refuse to leave the house during SXSW, got to come check out Flatstock on Sunday.

We got to shack up with the Strawberryluna crew again, which is always a side-splitting riot, and of course the party van with us, the 'Lunas and Doublenaut. This year we had tons of great laughs at Melrose Place (our rad pool in the center of our hotel courtyard) with all our talented friends from around the country, and even a few from Canada (check out all their links in our links section). That is where "inflatio" was born and it will never be forgotten, thank you Terry.

We ate too much BBQ (thank you again Salt Lick for accommodating over 40 insane poster artists), ate probably the best migas and breakfast tacos at Juan in A Million, which came complete with the firmest handshake in all of Texas and I even bought myself some kick ass cowboy boots from Boot City!!

Thank you to all of our friends that make Flatstock the best part of what we do, everyone that came by, chatted with us, bought some of our stuffs and made us feel welcome in Austin for the 4th year in a row!

We can't wait till next year! Yee-haw!

Check out all of our pictures here

What is Flatstock??

So I am sure you have heard us mention "Flatstock" a million times so I thought I would take some time to tell you just what exactly Flatstock is:

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 web site 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.

FLATSTOCK 20 is being held in Austin, Texas in conjunction with the world's premier Music Festival South By Southwest. Poster artists from around the world will hit The Austin Convention Center for the bi-annual convention sponsored by the American Poster Institute, dedicated to the promotion of music poster art and design worldwide. You've heard the sordid tales of deluxe poster prints sold to you the fans by the artists themselves, now come see for yourself. FLATSTOCK 20 is FREE for everyone so come one come all. Show up early and be ready to be overwhelmed with amazing posters (you might want to bring some dough too since you won't want to leave empty handed.) FLATSTOCK 20 is an all-ages event.

Flatstock 20 is now a FOUR DAY EVENT and Hero has a double booth again this year, so be sure to come by and say "Hi!", we're gonna have loads of new stuff. Including brand new posters, artprints and exclusive t-shirt designs, etc.

FLATSTOCK 20 SCHEDULE:

• Thurs. March 19 from 1:00 pm - 6:00 pm.
• Fri. March 20 from 11:00 am to 6:00 pm.
• Sat. March 21 from 11:00 am to 6:00 pm.
• Sun. March 22 from 11:00 am to 6:00 pm.

Check out this year's exhibitors here.

ALSO CHECK OUT:

To get the true music collector’s experience at SXSW, don't forget to also set time aside for the Record Convention and Guitar Show.

Flatstock Print Demos

Thursday - Sunday
All Day Screenprinting Demos

As part of Flatstock 20, the public is invited to drop by the on-site screenprinting demonstration set up by the API and its members. Andy MacDougal, author of “Screen Printing Today, The Basics,” will be leading multiple workshops during show hours. He will produce a number of original multicolor poster prints on-site Friday and Saturday. These unique workshops will allow you to see the process in action. You will learn how ideas and artwork are transformed into the thousands of amazing gigposters on display at Flatstock through the screen printing process. Participating Flatstock arists will be contributing work that Andy will be printing all four days. These works will be available for purchase when they are completed. Special guest artists will also contribute small prints which will be entirely created and produced at Flatstock.

“My Posters Stink” With Mig Kokinda
Saturday at 2:00 p.m.

Local Austin whiz kid Mig Kokinda will demonstrate the laborious mysteries of making the most kick ass rock posters you’ve seen with nothing but an exacto blade and Krylon. Come witness how to cut stencil after stencil and the process of turning those into multi layered works of art with the bonus of fumes! Mig has been making poster art and tattooing folks for well over thirteen years and few, if any, share his unique style.

For all the true poster junkies, be sure to watch the screening of Died Young, Stayed Pretty a documentary by Eileen Yaghoobian featuring many of this year's exhibitors.

Sneak peek at the Matisyahu Tour Poster Series

We're in the home stretch now - well past the halfway point on the 38 posters for Matisyahu's entire tour. So meanwhile - here is a sneak peek of the posters so far. The tour ends December 18 so we will have the posters for sale after that - until then, check out Matisyahu on tour on one of his remaining dates.

Photos from Flatstock 18 - Seattle

See the full collection of photos here.

We had an awesome time as usual, the weather was amazingly Autumn-like, we got to see old friends, meet new ones, and sell lots of stuffs. Can't wait till next year, Seattle is my favorite Flatstock!!

Hero at Bumbershoot Music Festival & Flatstock Poster Show

If you are in Seattle this Labor Day Weekend Hero will have a booth at Flatstock 18 at Bumbershoot Music Festival - stop by and say Hi and buy some stuffs :)

Bumbershoot Music Festival
Seattle, WA
Aug. 30, 31 and Sep. 1
11AM to 8PM

Flatstock 18, presented by Bumbershoot Arts And Music Festival and The American Poster Institute, will be held for three days, August 30th and 31st and September 1st, 2008 at The Fisher Pavillion, Seattle Center in Seattle, WA. You must have a Bumbershoot Music Fest Pass to get access to the Flatstock show.

Find more information on the event and band line up at www.bumbershoot.com
For the full lineup of Flatstock go here

New posters available NOW!!!

Just updated the Hero webstore with a few new posters!!

Black Rebel Motorcycle Club - Moscow, Russia

Spoon - Brooklyn, NY

Stefan Sagmeister - TypeCon 2008 Buffalo NY

Spoon - Pitchfork Music Festival - Chicago IL

Click the posters or the name to purchase or visit us in store. Or start shopping through all our posters here

Flatstock 17 at Pitchfork Music Festival Chicago - Photos

A rainy start

The Hero Booth

The Hero booth at night

Mike Klay and Beth

The "kid" being forced (paid) to eat a huge piece of Mexican spicy pickled cauliflower

Us

Strawberryluna

Doublnaut

Mike Budai

So it was a rough start to the weekend on Saturday when we were setting up at Union Park in horrid down pouring rain for hours on end, with a HUGE pool of water in the back of our tent. But eventually it cleared up on Saturday stayed beautiful and we had a great weekend. Really humid and hot, but dry none the less.

It was our best Flatstock ye, we met a lot of great people, had a great road trip and hung with some of our favorite friends from all over the country.

Here are a few photos that we took and a few taken by Josh Rickun. Here is a link to the entire album that he took. http://www.flickr.com/photos/28853723@N03/

Black Rebel Motorcycle Club US Tour Poster Series

Keep an eye out for posters for the entire BRMC US tour this April and May, Hero is doing a series of posters, one for each night of the tour.

There will be 15 posters total and they will be available for the sale the night of the show at the band's merch table and at the beginning of June on our website. Here is a sneak peek of 3 of the designs:

Stay tuned for more...

Even More New Stuff Added to the Hero Web Store

Elephant Artprint 23" x 11" - $20

Queens of the Stone Age - 18" x 24" - $20


The Stills - 18" x 24" - $20

New Stuff Added to the Hero Web Store

Robot Greeting Cards - 5" x 7" - $4 each

Buffalo Small Press Book Fair 2008 - 12" x 18" Poster - $15

Owly Artprint - 16" x 20" - $20

Love Birds Greeting Cards - 5" x 5" - $4 each

Check out our entire online store here, and look for more soon.

Flatstock 16 - SXSW - Austin, TX

FLATSTOCK 16 is being held in Austin, Texas in conjunction with the world's premier Music Festival South By Southwest. Poster artists from around the world will hit The Austin Convention Center for the bi-annual convention sponsored by the American Poster Institute, dedicated to the promotion of music poster art and design worldwide. You've heard the sordid tales of deluxe poster prints sold to you the fans by the artists themselves, now come see for yourself. FLATSTOCK 16 is FREE for everyone so come one come all. Show up early and be ready to be overwhelmed with amazing posters (you might want to bring some dough too since you won't want to leave empty handed.) FLATSTOCK 16 is an all-ages event.

Hero has a double booth this year, so be sure to come by and say "Hi!", we're gonna have loads of new stuff. Including exclusive t-shirt designs, etc.

Sweet: The Graphic Beauty of the Contemporary Rock Poster

Hero is a part of a fantastic exhibit called Sweet: The Graphic Beauty of the Contemporary Rock Poster, at the University of Maryland running from February 6th - March 29th. The opening day reception on Wednesday February 6th, is extra special, as a group of us participating poster artists will be there for Sweet Booth, a mini-Flatstock meet'n'greet event from 11am - 7:30pm. Come say "HI" to us if you are in the Baltimore area, this is going to be an amazing event! And as another bonus, John Foster (author of the superb New Masters of Poster Design) will be lecturing on March 5, at 3pm. For more information, look at the UMD Art Gallery site here. Hope to see some of you there.

Article on Hero on Buffalo Rising

Check out this article about Hero on today's Buffalo Rising, click here.

On Parade - Screenprinted Rock Poster Extravaganza

Check this rad exhibit that Hero is a part of at Clothes Optional 2918 N. Clark St Chicago. Opening November 9, 9pm to Midnight, running through January 9.

Featuring the work of:
Hero Design Studio
Spike Press
Dan Grzeca
Sonnenzimmer
The New Year
Burlesque of North America
Aesthetic Apparatus
The Small Stakes
Little Friends of Printmaking
Delicious Design League

New Posters Added to the Store

A bunch of new posters have been added to the Hero online webstore and more are coming soon.... check out posters for Minus the Bear, The National, Of Montreal and Spoon. Check out our entire collection of posters for sale here