The Wall: Inside the Poster Studio
We are very honored to be included in the brand new book The Wall: Inside The Poster Studio. An inside look into the design studios of the gig poster community. The Wall returns for a second volume focused on the studio and workspaces of the modern masters of gig poster design. Thirty One of the world’s [...]
Hero Posters in New CBS Comedy “2 Broke Girls”
A handful of our posters have popped up in various episodes of CBS’ new Monday-night comedy, “2 Broke Girls”. We nabbed a few screen shots of the four we’ve seen already, so we could show them off. They aren’t the best images, but you get the idea. When we spoke with their set decorator in [...]
Hero Posters in ABC’s New Comedy “Better With You”
Our 8″ x 10″ Owl Always Love You art print Our Elvis Costello poster Our 2008 Buffalo Small Press Book Fair Poster Last summer, a set decorator working on the new ABC comedy, “Better With You” purchased a bunch of our posters and contacted us about them being used on the set of a new [...]
1000 Indie Posters
We are very proud and excited to be featured in this new book from John Foster and Rockport Publishers, 1000 Indie Posters. We have a bunch of posters in there and we are in great company, so many great artists are featured. Grab one now and check it out! About the book: The renewed prominence of the [...]
Poetic. Aesthetic. : An Exploration of Creativity in Poetry and Visual Art
We are very excited to share with you three new prints we created recently for Poetic Aesthetic: An Exploration of Creativity in Poetry and Visual Art an exhibition presented by The Art Gallery at the University of Maryland. The opening reception is tomorrow evening, now Friday, January 28 due to the weather, and though we will not be [...]
Hero featured in the 2010 How Magazine Business Annual
We are so so insanely excited and proud to share with you this feature on Hero Design Studio in the How Magazine November/December 2010 issue. We were interviewed back in July and we’ve had to keep a tight lip about this article in their Business Annual Issue (which has been a bit hard, since we [...]
Impressive: Printmaking, Letterpress and Graphic Design
**EDIT** We received our copy of Impressive today and we are totally impressed (pun intended) with the quality of the book, all the amazing studios and their work featured and how many Hero pieces were represented. Impressive features over 25 different Hero gigposters, art prints and one-of-a-kind test prints. Needless to say, this made our [...]
Rock for Kids Poster Artist Interview Series – Rescheduled
***Due to some technical difficulties we had in our hotel in NYC , we were unable to connect and make this happen on the originally scheduled time, so it has been rescheduled for Thursday, June 17th at 2pm CST!! Hope you will tune in. We are so excited to be included in this wonderful Poster [...]
Rock Paper Show: Flatstock Volume I – Book Signing at Strand in NYC
(photo found on Google Earth taken by ac1475 on Panoramio) Next weekend is proving to be a very busy and exciting one for us. We will be in NYC for the Brooklyn Renegade Craft Fair and we have quite a lot going on otherwise. Besides our Rock for Kids Poster Artist Interview on Friday June [...]
Rock Paper Show Flatstock Volume One
Check it out: Rock Paper Show: Flatstock Volume One is a brand new book that we are very proud to be a part of. Rock Paper Show is a deluxe art book compiling the posters created for Flatstock, the American Poster Institute’s ongoing rock-poster exhibition. Not only are the posters we’ve made for Flatstocks over [...]
Hero was at the Grammys with Ringo Starr
Last night Ringo Starr sported a tee designed by Hero, to the Grammys. It was a shirt we designed for Electric Fetus, an amazing independently owned record store in Minneapolis. We might be geeking out just a tad bit today!! Here’s a close up of the graphic! Photo credits from top: 1) Michael Caulfield / [...]
Naïve – Modernism and Folklore in Contemporary Graphic Design
This is a busy book year for us at Hero!! We have been published and featured in quite a few books that release in 2009 and we couldn’t be any more humbled by it. Here is another great book we were published in, among some of THE most talented artists working today. This phenomenal book [...]
Hero in Spin Magazine
Check out the June issue of Spin Magazine, on newstands now. There is a great review of the new Gig Posters book, featuring a handful of our good friends and one of our posters!!! Eeeee OMG total geek out!!! Check out the feature:
1,000 Garment Graphics: A Comprehensive Collection of Wearable Designs
We are so proud to be published in this phenomenal book, 1,000 Garment Graphics: A Comprehensive Collection of Wearable Designs, which is a collection of the best wearable art and designs, with some of the most inspiring and innovative graphic works from around the world. The main emphasis is on fashion from t-shirt graphics, to [...]
Buffalo featured in Venus Zine’s City Guide
Look for our Flatstock roundup, photos, new prints, etc, next week, as I have been stricken by the Flatstock Flu aka SXSW SARS! All the hand shaking, late nights, alcohol and flights actually got me this year!! (Somehow, I have managed to avoid it every other year, BLAH!) For now enjoy this feature on Buffalo [...]
Gigposters.com Book
We are so proud to announce and even prouder to be published in the first ever Gigposters.com book by Clay Hayes, the founder of Gigposters.com Includes 101 perforated and ready-to-hang posters along with hundreds of other poster images and designer biographies. Packaged in an oversized 11-by-14-inch paperback, Gig Posters Volume I is a spectacular compilation [...]
Dirty Dozen from Hero on Poster Rocket
Our dirty dozen as selected by Rocket! with a few questions too. Check it out here now!
Hero in Print’s Regional Design Annual 2008
Find us in the “East – Mid Atlantic” Region (starts on pg 209), we won 4 awards and we are quoted in the intro for our region. We are soo proud, and totally geeking out over it, still. {sorry about the not so great scans its hard to scan from a magazine without cutting it [...]
This B.U.D.’s for You on Buffalo Rising
Check out the article online about “This B.U.D.’s for You” our upcoming custom show, that was featured in this month’s print edition of Buffalo Rising.
Hero Featured in Buffalo Rising’s March Issue
Check out the latest issue of Buffalo Rising, out now! Hero designed the cover of this music issue, featuring a small collection of our posters and there is a wonderfully written, 3 page article and interview with Hero inside. We are very excited about this issue and to be featured on the cover!! Check out [...]
Hero Featured in How Magazine’s 2008 International Design Annual
Hero won a Merit Award in Packaging in the April issue of How Magazine, the 2008 International Design Annual. See the featured design here. The issue is on stands now.
Hero Featured on Behance
Hero’s very own, Beth Manos Brickey, is the featured article on Behance today, check it out here. The Behance team develops products and services for creative professionals. Their goal is to better organize the creative community to make ideas happen. They have a wonderful website that is truly inspiring.
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 [...]
