Horne is Getting Published!

This month I was invited to submit the poster "My Beard" (for Sweet Hair) to be published in a book! The book's working title is "HAIRY," and it's being published by Gestalten. I've always loved their books, so this is a huge honor! Here is the project description:

HAIRY, an upcoming title by international art and design book publisher Gestalten, will document and celebrate the beauty and strangeness of hair in a crosssection of contemporary projects in fashion, photography, art and illustration.

Psych Out! A new print series.

I want to do a serious printmaking project while I still have a studio (btw, if you know anyone with a printmaking space to share in NYC, email me!)... "Psych Out!" is the idea... psychedelic compositions made with tons of transparent layers overprinted on each other. They look kind of subtle on screen. The ink colors will be more saturated when I do this fo' real. It will be a small, varied edition of 10 prints or less. 18" x 18" with borders for framing. I'm going to get this done in the next 3 weeks... process photos will be posted here, twitter, and flickr.

EPIC WEEKEND

Good times were had by all this weekend at Los Vesparados and Sweet Hair art shows. I haven't stayed out that late in a loooooong time, which is kinda sad. So fun! Check out the pics I snapped during the riotous merriment.

Sweet Hair poster: PRINTED

Busted this mother out yesterday. And now, with sore muscles, I say to you: Come to the Sweet Hair Poster Show!

W H E N : Saturday, June 13th 7-10 pm
W H E R E : Art Minion (1828 NE Marshall St, Mpls, MN 55418

It's sponsored by Surly Brewing Co. (mmm...beer...) so there will be brewskies! And it's for a good cause: proceeds go to Locks of Love. Come one, come all, get shitty, buy some art, get all your hair cut off and request that it be made into a wicked pompadour wig or something. This is gonna be great.

Sweet Hair Continues...

I just finished my first draft. Gotta add a missing letter to this one, then make sure to exhaust all creative possibilities before I pick the final.

This one would look cool with metallic gold & chocolate brown on off-white stock, yeah?

Los Vesparados Poster: DESIGNED!

...This is IT, people! I nailed it! Literally finished this 5 minutes ago!

While the rest of the world slumbers, I am clickity-clicking my mouse and designing with bulging eyes and my tongue hanging out like a Chuck Jones character. Kidding (sort of).

This piece is scheduled to be produced and ready by this Sunday. It will be 2 colors, 18" x 18". 15" x 15"

Jeremy Messersmith Poster: DONE

This just in: Messersmith poster DONE. See photos of the printing process on my Flickr page. Yessssssss....

Los Vesparados...

I don't know about you, but I just love second-guessing myself. You have got to try it sometime! I mean, what a rush!

Okay, that was some heavy sarcasm. Seriously now, I've decided to go a different direction with my L.V. poster. This time I'm thinking all-over pattern, fuzzy monsters, and total cuteness. Soon, my darlings...You'll see.

No. 1 — Process & Final Design

↑ This is the final design.


↑ These are elements of the process.

First, I tried sketching out fancy letters (fig. a). That proved to be much harder than I thought. All my letters were looking really cartoony, and the composition was not unified. So I dug through my pile of photocopied typefaces and found one (fig. b) that seemed to possess the archaic qualities of the language. After making a typographic composition that worked, I thought: why not combine it with some images (fig. c & d)? Both were ambiguous enough to be this blowsy doxy character. One seemed to relate more to the type, and so i was done. (Thunderous applause…)