Dylan Poster
DESCRIPTION
Happy Birthday Dylan Poster
CLIENT
Dylan Massin, the Birthday Boy
DATE
Saturday May 16th, 2009
DESIGN CREDITS
Art Director: Justin Leibow
Designer/Scissors: Lindsay Leibow (age: 6) Designer/Scissors: Tommy Leibow (age: 4) PRINT CREDITS
Ink: Justin Leibow
Squeegee 01: Lindsay Leibow Squeegee 02: Tommy Leibow TYPE CREDITS
Hand-drawn letterforms on newspaper by Justin Leibow, cut out by Lindsay Leibow and Tommy Leibow
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QUANTITY PRODUCED
10
PRODUCTION COST
$10 – $15 for ink and paper, blank screen was already in the garage.
PRODUCTION TIME
2 hours
(assembly/printing: 1.5 hours, drying in the sun: .5 hours) DIMENSIONS: WIDTH × HEIGHT × DEPTH
Roughly hand-cut with scissors to 18 in. × 24 in.
PRINT METHOD
Silkscreen
PAPER STOCK
Uncoated Kraft
NUMBER OF COLORS
1 spot color (Speedball Acrylic Ink, Peacock Blue)
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IMAGES HAVE BEEN PROVIDED BY THE DESIGNER
For the longest time, a single last name has been associated with the notion of "The Dylan Poster": Glaser. Well, Glaser, meet your future competition: The Leibows. 4-year-old Tommy and 6-year-old Lindsay with art direction by their dad Justin Leibow — who, by day, art directs type and imagery for motion at the rad Superfad — have created a spectacularly typographic and dingbat-ey poster for their friend Dylan Massin. But not all was fun, games and killer hand-lettering, specially during clean-up time… the proud art director and father explains:
Due to the impatience of the crew and pressure on the squeegee, each poster had differing amounts of ink coverage. As an introduction to screen printing and poster design, this project was perfect for my two kids. They were pretty much engaged throughout the process. Of course, they had nothing to do with the clean up. Based on this experience, they each designed and made another poster the very next weekend. Now, they are giving out these posters to friends and figuring out what their next compositions will be. Mission accomplished.
Comments
Eep! I love it!
This is brilliant!
That looks like a cool lo-fi way to make a screen too. I'm assuming the first pull of ink adhered the paper cutouts to the screen. I think my son and I have a new art project to do this weekend!
I just noticed that in the second picture from top, there was a potential typo! "Birthday" was missing its "h," good proofreading too.
I want my childhood back. This is awesome.
THAT is refreshing!
How much cooler could you be, Justin Leibow!? Ummm... my birthday was Sunday - where's my poster?
As a newly-minted father, I *especially* love this.
love this so much!
FPO: For Parents Only
Very cool... Wax paper (instead of newspaper) may hold up better for those wanting to do a longer run.
Hi Justin!!! You and the kids rock. How fun it was to see this as the first item in my Google Reader this morning. Much love from Seattle.
Gina!!! - Glad you saw it. Super fun stuff.
Jenn - I'll make you a poster in Italy in a month, ok?
Your kids are going to steal our jobs:P
I really enjoyed this, and the fact that you're creating mini designers.
Congrats!
Wow, this is better than any design I can do. Though I am the boss so I guess its ok...
these kids sure know how to justify their type.
You make it look so easy. I think I'll get my kids into the process. Great job, young typographers in the making.
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