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A. Micah Smith (My Associate Cornelius)

Kansas City

A. Micah Smith is a graphic designer / illustrator living in the great state of Kansas.  Emerging from a love of music and art alike, he started My Associate Cornelius in the summer of 2004 as an after hours creative outlet.  Over the years it has blossomed into a nationally recognized graphic design studio producing a wide-range of print materials and has become a staple in the independent rock poster scene.  Smith has produced work for many great clients such as Wilco, Myspace, Spoon, Newsweek, and the Hold Steady to name a few.  His work has also appeared in many magazines (Print, Paste, Nylon) and books, including, 'Gigposters, Vol. 1: Rock Show Art of the 21st Century'. 

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Adam is a freelance illustrator based in Bend, OR.  Born and raised in the foothills of the Central Oregon Cascades, he gained an early appreciation for the rural lifestyle and the outdoors.  Although primarily a commercial illustrator, Adam manages to put together a few art shows every year.  His work is heavily influenced by his locale, and his acrylic paintings are inspired by the colorful landscapes and eclectic possessions of the local population.  Adam stays busy with various freelance illustration projects including the recent Nike 6.0 campaign, artwork for Gnu Snowboards, and labels for local brewer Deschutes Brewery.  

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Alan Hynes
San Francisco

Alan Hynes is a Graphic Designer, originally from Ireland he now lives in San Francisco, California. He has worked for many years in the skateboarding industry designing skateboards and t-shirts for the Spitfire, Real and Antihero brands. Much of his time is spent designing and hand printing limited edition posters for all manner of music and events, his designs have also appeared on numerous record covers.

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Alberto Cerriteño 
Portland
Alberto is a Mexican illustrator & designer who has lived in America; Portland for nearly four years now.  Strongly inspired by urban vinyl toys, alternative cartoons, and the pop surrealism movement, Alberto Cerriteño has developed his own very personal technique and style.  His art maintains delicate hints of traditional Mexican artistic influences in his management of rich textures and decorative patterns.  These aspects contrast strikingly with the blending of desaturated colors and ink, sometimes featuring a vintage coffee finish.  Alberto Cerriteño illustrations have been recognized by progressive art institutions such as Juxtapoz, Create, Drawn!, The Little Chimp Society, Computer Arts, Communication Arts and IDN among others.

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Amy lives in beautiful green Portland, Oregon, where she works in her studio as a full-time artist, illustrator and surface designer.  She was born and raised in rural Wisconsin, where she was left mostly to her own imagination, always dragging a stack of paper and a slew of pencils and crayons to her fort in the woods.  Color and shape have always intrigued her, and to this day, is still searching for that perfect oval, that perfect orange-yellow and grassy green.  Amy has worked with the good folks at Uniqlo, Blik!, Aladdin, Ace Hotel-Portland, Nike, Adidas, Converse, Burton Snowboards, Gnu Snowboards, Target, Kid Robot, Tamara Henriques, The Mercy Corps, design*sponge, Klutz, Vigo Cards, Modern-Twist and many others.  Amy Ruppel was the 2007 US Artist for the Oilily Artisan Series ( Netherlands).  She was also the artist/illustrator for the 2007 Holiday Season at Target.

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Andrew Holder

Pasadena, California

Originally from St Augustine, Florida, Andrew Holder grew up in San Diego.  He now works as a freelance artist and designer in Pasadena, California.  Andrew recently graduated from the Art Center College of Design in Pasadena.  He has quickly established himself as a talented artist with a fast pace of gallery shows in San Diego, San Francisco, New York, Tokyo, and Australia.  His work has been the subject of many online articles and bloggers.  Andrew’s fine art has elements of ocean living mixed with old world folk art design.  His art is fresh and engaging.  Andrew has provided his art to a wide range of clientele, including National Geographic, Roxy, Urban Outfitters, and Dwell among others.  We’re excited to offer a few examples of Andrew’s great art here on Poster Cabaret.      

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Andrew Vastagh, aka BOSS CONSTRUCTION, is a one man show, based in Nashville, Tennessee.  Andrew designs and screen prints all his posters by hand, personally. He began making Xerox flyers while still in high school, and later moved on to screen printing gig posters in 2002. As a graduate of the design program at The University of Memphis, Andrew wanted to avoid a corporate cubicle and focused instead on the freedom gig posters offered. Andy draws his poster influence from old Russian and Polish WWII propaganda posters, "That’s the true essence of a poster, it's inherently propaganda. It's a call to action. It communicates to people.” He has worked on everything from  T-shirt designs for Death Cab For Cutie to the recent packaging and branding design of Old Crow Medicine Show's, "Tennessee Pusher.” In fact, an LP cover Andy designed for Old Crow Medicine Show was presented by Conan O'Brien on his late night show in 2008. Andrew lives in Nashville with his wife Christa, eleven year old daughter Madalyn, and two mean chihuahuas Bonita & Echo.

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Blanca Gomez

Madrid, Spain

Blanca Gómez lives and works in Madrid, Spain .  She is an illustrator and graphic designer.  Blanca likes making small things with care; her website is called "cosas mínimas,” which means "tiny things" in Spanish.  Simple things inspire her and her work, which has been described as "colourful,” "playful" and "whimsical.”  Her artwork has been the recent topic of many top design and art blogs.  Blanca has recently worked with Uppercase Magazine, Chronicle Books, El País, Bright Magazine...

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Charley Harper
(August 4, 1922-June 10, 2007)
Charley Harper  was a Cincinnati-based American Modernist artist.  He was best known for his highly stylized wildlife prints, posters and book illustrations.  Born in Frenchtown, West Virginia in 1922, Harper’s upbringing on his family farm influenced his work to his last days.  He left his farm home to study art at the Art Academy of Cincinnati, and won the academy’s first Stephen H. Wilder Traveling Scholarship.  While at the academy, and supposedly on the first day, Charley met fellow artist Edie McKee, whom he would marry shortly after graduation in 1947.  Charley Harper returned to the Art Academy of Cincinnati as a teacher and also worked for a commercial firm before working on his own.  He and his wife worked out of their Roselawn and Finneytown homes, and later, with their only child Brett Harper, formed Harper Studios.

During his career, Charles Harper illustrated numerous books, notably The Golden Book of Biology, magazines such as Ford Times, as well as many prints, posters, and other works.  In a style he called “minimal realism”, Charley Harper captures the essence of his subjects with the fewest possible visual elements.  He contrasted his nature-oriented artwork with the realism of John James Audubon, drawing influence from Cubism, Minimalism, Einsteinian physics and countless other developments in Modern art and science.  His style distilled and simplified complex organisms and natural subjects, yet they are often arranged in a complex fashion.

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Clint initially began designing gig posters for his own band. He later studied design formally at Stephen F. Austin University with a focus on advertising and digital media. His interest in music and design inspired continued gig poster making after college. Clint relocated to Austin in 2006 and began working as a professional printer. While printing in Austin, Clint continued making concert posters and began freelance design work. He has recently designed posters for numerous shows in Texas- including MIA, Alkaline Trio, Smashing Pumpkins, and others. 

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The Cricket Press is the tag-team duo of artists Brian & Sara Turner. The Turners have made the Cricket Press into one of the best “tiny little operations geared towards designing and hand printing silk-screened posters” of the modern concert poster scene. The Cricket Press makes posters for music events, art shows, propaganda, and basically anything you'd want to make a poster for. They love making concert posters for punk, indie-rock, jazz and improvised music events. The two have backgrounds in illustration, photography, graphic design & woodworking.  

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