Buffalo BookFest at the Western New York Book Arts Collaborative
It’s been a quiet summer of travel and events for us and we gear up for some big changes over here at Hero, but we are packing up our goods and wares and we’ll be selling them this Saturday, July 28 from 10am – 5pm at the first ever Buffalo BookFest at the Western New [...]
“Pool Session” Art Print
Our brand new art print “Pool Session” is now available for purchase in the Hero web store. This 6-color 20″ x 16″ silkscreen art print is a signed and numbered edition of just 150 prints. Check out the album we posted on Facebook that shows the entire printing process, color by color, explaining all of [...]
Adventures In Design Podcast Episode No.11 “Standing On The Shoulders Of Giants”
Adventures In Design Episode 11 “Standing On The Shoulders Of Giants” featuring the international editorial illustrator Raymond E. Biesinger We did it, we F-ing did it! On July 1st, or as we like to call it, Canada Day, the show was downloaded for the 20,000th time. A number that I had no idea we [...]
Adventures In Design Podcast Episode No.10 “This Currency Doesn’t Add Up”
Adventures In Design Podcast Episode No.10 “This Currency Doesn’t Add Up” 10 episodes of Adventures In Design and counting. Who would have thought we’d make it this far? Probably not Billy and myself. Like most things in this world, practice makes perfect, even though the podcast is still far from perfection, we have been [...]
Adventures In Design Podcast Episode No.9 “What’s Inside You”
Adventures In Design Podcast Episode No.9 “What’s Inside You” I hope you’re enjoying the show. We just crossed 15,000 total downloads! This a number is somewhat mind-blowing to me, since we’re so early into our podcasting career. So thank you to all that have contributed! I hope you’re enjoying the conversation just as much as [...]
Crazy Mystery Tube Sale
That’s right, we have obviously lost our minds!! We are practically giving away posters!! In each tube you will receive 5 randomly selected prints from the Hero collection. It will be a combination of gig posters and art prints. We would love for you to mention, in the notes of your Paypal order, any prints [...]
Travel Themed – Inspirational Journal
We were commissioned by Seattle-based company, Compendium, earlier this year to create a series of hand drawn illustrations for an inspirational journal. This 128-page notebook is fully designed and illustrated by us and it features periodic pages with inspirational quotations and illustrations – while the rest of the pages are lined allowing you to [...]
“War Is Hell, Mr. Thornhill, Even When It’s A Cold One.” – Alfred Hitchcock Inspired Print
We were very excited to have been asked to participate in yet another amazing show at Los Angeles based Gallery1988. This show entitled “Suspense & Gallows Humor”, was a tribute to Alfred Hitchcock. The show was on display at Gallery1988′s Venice space from April 13 – 29, 2012. We created this limited edition poster titled [...]
New Gigposter for Beirut
Our new gig poster for Beirut’s May 28th show at the Sasquatch! Music Festival at the Gorge in Seattle, WA, is now on sale in the Hero web store and etsy store. This is a 16″ x 20″ 3-color silkscreen poster, hand printed with non-toxic water based inks and printed on Springhill Index in Ivory 140# [...]
Adventures In Design Podcast Episode No.8 “One Frame At A Time”
This blog post is way overdue. About 7 episodes overdue to be exact. Aside from being co-owner of Hero Design Studio, I now have a new title of being the co-host of the Adventures In Design Podcast. The A.I.D. Podcast is a project that I started with my great friend Billy Baumann of Chicago’s [...]
New Gigposter for Andrew Bird
Our new gig poster for Andrew Bird’s May 9th show in Baltimore, Maryland at Ramshead Live, is now on sale in the Hero web store. This is a 16″ x 20″ 3-color silkscreen poster, hand printed with non-toxic water based inks and printed on Accent Opaque Smooth White 100# cover stock. This is a signed and numbered [...]
New Gigposter for Andrew Bird
Our new gig poster for Andrew Bird’s May 8th show in Washington, DC at the 9:30 Club, is now on sale in the Hero web store. This is a 16″ x 20″ 3-color silkscreen poster, hand printed with non-toxic water based inks and printed on Accent Opaque Smooth White 100# cover stock. This is a signed [...]
“Love Bouquet” Art Print
Let your love grow!! Our brand new art print “Love Bouquet” is now available from the Hero web store. This is a 16″ x 20″ 4-color silkscreen poster, hand printed with non-toxic water based inks on Springhill Index in Ivory 140# index stock. This is a signed open edition.
New Gigposter for Death Cab For Cutie
Our new gig poster for Death Cab For Cutie is now on sale in the Hero web store. This is a 16″ x 20″ 4-color silkscreen poster, hand printed with non-toxic water based inks and printed on Springhill Index in Ivory 140# index stock. This is a signed and numbered edition of 100 prints. We [...]
Buffalo, New York One-of-a-Kind Test Prints
We just listed the remaining of these one-of-a-kind, Buffalo, New York test prints, at this 16″ x 20 size, that we made back in February for our pop-up shop. The edition was very small, no more than 30 total were ever created. Each print from the series is unique and one-of-a-kind, as the under layers [...]
“Make Every Day A Happy Day” Art Print
If you aren’t happy and smiling every day, what else is there? Our brand new art print, “Make Every Day A Happy Day”, is now available in the Hero web store and etsy store. This is a 16″ x 20″ 5-color silkscreen poster, hand printed with non-toxic water based inks on Accent Opaque Smooth White 100# cover [...]
“Hey Now” Art Print
“Hey Now” is now available in the Hero web store and the Hero Etsy store. This is a 16″ x 20″ 3-color silkscreen poster, hand printed with non-toxic water based inks on French Speckletone 100# Cover Recycled Kraft Paper. It is a limited edition of just 150 prints. Each print is signed and numbered. This [...]
Illustrations for New York Magazine’s Wedding Issue
New York Magazine commissioned us to create a series of monochromatic vintage-inspired illustrations in our collage-style of illustration for their Summer 2012 “Weddings” issue. The series of 6 illustrations is for the cover of the listings section and for the themed sections within – attire, accessories, beauty, reception and registry. This special issue is on [...]
“1963” Mad Men Print No. 05 from Hero / Print Mafia
The next Mad Men inspired art print in the series is also now available. This is the fifth print in the ongoing collaboration from Hero Design Studio and Print Mafia. “1963″ is a tribute to Mad Men Season 2 Episode 04 – “Three Sundays” Featuring the Don Draper quote: “Let’s Pretend We Know What [...]
“Going Places” Mad Men Print No. 04 from Hero / Print Mafia
The newest Mad Men inspired print is finally available. This is the fourth print in the ongoing collaboration from Hero Design Studio and Print Mafia. “Going Places” is a tribute to Mad Men Season 3 Episode 01 – “Out of Town” Featuring the Don Draper / Dick Whitman quote: ”I Keep Going Places and Ending Up [...]
New Native-Inspired Women’s Tops Available Now
As you may have seen a few weeks back in our photos from our Pop Up Shop at Modern Nostalgia in February, we designed and hand silkscreen printed a a brand new limited edition line of native-inspired women’s tops and tees, exclusively for the event. The response was so great and we nearly sold out, [...]
Gallery1988 and Funny Or Die Presents: Is This Thing On? 2: The Weird Year
We are very excited to have been invited to create a piece for Gallery1988 and Funny Or Die‘s upcoming exhibit “Is This Thing On? 2: The Weird Year”, a show that features artwork of nearly 100 artists “inspired by their favorite funny people”. It opens this Friday, March 9 at Gallery1988 Los Angeles on Melrose [...]
Flastock 33 Rock Poster Convention at SXSW in Austin, TX
Flatstock 33 Poster by Sonnenzimmer The first major road trip of 2012 is already upon us! Hero will heading down to the first Flatstock Poster Convention of the year, which will once again be held in Austin, Texas during the SXSW Festival. This is the 33rd Flatstock to date! The Austin Flatstock is always [...]
Poster Celebrating the Birmingham Brewery Movement
Birmingham, Alabama-based, Magic City Post and ShopBirmingham.com commissioned us to create a series of prints to commemorate and celebrate Birmingham. Each poster focuses on an event or place that helps cast Birmingham in the positive light that it deserves on the national stage. The second print that we released in this [...]
