The art wall over at Avalon Bowery Place along East First Street is now featuring the work of Swissted's Mike Joyce ... it's part of a project that the NYC-based graphic designer launched in January 2012...
The Village Voice explained the concept this way last year:
Joyce combs through flyers of old-school punk, hardcore, and indie rock shows, retains the vital info, and uses that text to create Swiss Modernist-style posters that often incorporate geometric patterns. His work favors minimalism, and his only font is Berthold Akzidenz-Grotesk Medium (lowercase, natch).
This collection features shows from CBGB...
15 comments:
uhh, so this guy has no ideas of his own, right?
You just can't beat those Swiss Germans when it comes to graphic design!
No
Simply pathetic.
Sorry, guy. Helvetica ≠ Ramones.
ugh. just awful. can you imagine if this is what it was back then??? id puke to hell, just as im puking now seeing this immortalized on paper. sacrilege.
sam_the_man, It's Akzidenz-Grotesk, not Helvetica. But you're right, the Ramones was Franklin Gothic.
I was just thinking about these the other night - specifically about how useless they are. I really don't understand these, nor why people like them. They suck all the fun, danger, sweat, brotherhood, and humanity out of the original logos, flyers, and t-shirts...
Kind of in the same category as Pat Boone singing the best of Slayer...
Just fuckin' dreadful...
Ugly and antiseptic - your deodorant smells nice
The posters are as antiseptic as the neighborhood these days.
I like antiseptic. It's so... non-septic.
This is exactly the kind of easy designing that was so common in the mid to late 90's- from anyone who was using Adobe Illustrator for the first time. Give me an Arturo Vega exhibit instead!
these posters are part of our larger neighborhood-wide public art program. Across from this site is the alleyway to the back door of what was CBGB. We have a new (and ongoing) mural in the alley, painted by artists of the Antagonist Movement and based upon a poem given to them by Arturo Vega. Sadly, Arturo passed away during the painting of the mural. The artists have dedicated the mural to Arturo Vega and will continue to work on it all summer.
Here's a link to an interview with Raul Ayala, who worked with James Rubio to create the mural: http://streetartnyc.org/blog/2013/06/27/speaking-with-ecuadorian-artist-raul-ayala/
and a link to the video about the overall program & collaboration: http://vimeo.com/66922970
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