events

Hero Fab.com Sale

Hero Fab.com Sale

We are super excited to announce our first-ever Fab.com sale and it starts tomorrow, Tuesday, October 25. What is Fab.com, you ask? Fab.com is an amazing member-only website thats features daily design inspirations and sales at up to 70% off retail. Our sale starts Tuesday, October 25 at 11am EST, it will last for just [...]

Renegade Craft Fair Chicago - September 10 & 11

Renegade Craft Fair Chicago – September 10 & 11

We are heading back to Chicago this weekend for the 9th Annual Chicago Renegade Craft Fair in Wicker Park. We are super excited about being back for this wonderful event. Summer is winding it’s way down and this marks the end of a crazy and hectic season of travel for us. Even though it’s work, [...]

Renegade Craft Fair - Los Angeles

Renegade Craft Fair – Los Angeles

As you might have already read in our post about Renegade San Francisco, we are headed to the left coast again! We’ll be on your side of the country for two weekends in a row! This is our first time selling our wares at the Los Angeles Renegade Craft Fair, however if it is anything [...]


Renegade Craft Fair - San Francisco

Renegade Craft Fair – San Francisco

Hello Left Coasters – we are headed your way, once again and we cannot wait to be there! We’ll be on your lovely side of the country for two weekends in a row. First up is Renegade Craft Fair in San Francisco and the following weekend we’ll be in Los Angeles for the Renegade Craft [...]

Renegade Craft Fair - Brooklyn

Renegade Craft Fair – Brooklyn

We are once again headed back to Brooklyn for the 7th annual Renegade Craft Fair in McCarren Park on June 11 +12, 2011, from 11am – 7pm. We will be selling our wares along with hundreds of today’s best makers of handmade goods, plus there will be free workshops, entertainment + lots of other summer surprises! There is sure to be something [...]

2011 Events

2011 Events

Details are still be worked out on some of the future events, so this list is subject to change. We’re adding new events to our schedule all the time so be sure to check back often. Hope to see you on the road somewhere along our travels. 2011 Hero Design Studio Appearances and Events: March [...]


"Tiny Trifecta" - Tara McPherson's Cotton Candy Machine Grand Opening

“Tiny Trifecta” – Tara McPherson’s Cotton Candy Machine Grand Opening

We are beyond humbled to be included in this incredible grand opening event / gallery show celebrating Tara McPherson’s newest venture, Cotton Candy Machine. Cotton Candy Machine is Tara’s Williamsburg, NYC art studio turned storefront/boutique that will specialize in art prints, rock posters, tshirts, books, and a variety of merch including stickers, toys, buttons and fun [...]

Handmade Arcade - Pittsburgh, PA!

Handmade Arcade – Pittsburgh, PA!

We are very excited to be vendors at this year’s Handmade Arcade that is held in Pittsburgh, PA now in its seventh year, it is Pittsburgh’s largest indie craft fair. This year’s fair is one-day event taking place on Saturday, April 16 from 11am-7pm.  Handmade Arcade is excited to announce a new central location in [...]

Flatstock 29 Rock Poster Convention at SXSW - Austin, Texas

Flatstock 29 Rock Poster Convention at SXSW – Austin, Texas

The 2011 travel season is upon us and the first major road trip for Hero is 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 29th Flatstock to date! The Austin Flatstock is always FREE to attend and wide [...]


Last Minute Panic Holiday Marketplace

Last Minute Panic Holiday Marketplace

We’ll be set up and selling our wares this Friday and Saturday at the Western New York Book Arts Center for their 3rd annual Last Minute Panic Holiday Marketplace. It’s Friday, December 17 from 4-8pm and Saturday, December 18 from 12-6pm. At the main gallery, 1st floor of the Western New York Book Arts Center [...]

Bazaar Bizarre - Cleveland Holiday Show

Bazaar Bizarre – Cleveland Holiday Show

We are very excited to be vendors for the very first time at Bazaar Bizarre, this weekend in Cleveland. The indie craft show features over 80 vendors and “it’s not your Granny’s craft fair!” It takes place at 78th Street Studios, 1301 West 78th Street on Saturday, December 11 noon-9:00 p.m. and Sunday, December 12 [...]

Renegade Craft Fair Holiday Sale Chicago

Renegade Craft Fair Holiday Sale Chicago

We’re hitting the road again, back to Chicago for one final time this year. This Saturday and Sunday, December 4 + 5, 2010, from 11am – 7pm, we’ll be set up at the 5th Annual Renegade Craft Fair Holiday Sale in Chicago at the Pulaski Park Fieldhouse (1419 W. Blackhawk)! With over 150 of today’s [...]


RendezBlue: Source at the Burchfield Penney

RendezBlue: Source at the Burchfield Penney

RendezBlue: Source, is a free art and music festival from November 11-14, 2010 at the Burchfield Penney Art Center. RendezBlue is FOUR FREE DAYS of diverse events and exhibitions featuring musicians, artists, performers, poets, and designers – all sharing a common geography as Western New Yorkers – reveal unique sources of inspiration, creativity, perspective, and [...]

Renegade Craft Fair Chicago!

Renegade Craft Fair Chicago!

We are once again headed back to Chicago! YAY! This time we will be setting up shop at the Renegade Craft Fair. Renegade is a FREE TO ATTEND craft, art, design and DIY spectacular! We absolutely LOVE this festival. 8 blocks of crafty goodness in the lovely Wicker Park that will blow your mind. On [...]

Flatstock 27 at Bumbershoot Music Festival

Flatstock 27 at Bumbershoot Music Festival

Poster design by Furturtle Show Prints It’s that time again, we’re heading to one of our favorite cities – SEATTLE!! If you are in Seattle this Labor Day Weekend – Hero will have a booth at Flatstock 27 at Bumbershoot Music Festival – stop by and say Hi and buy some stuffs. There will be over [...]


Flatstock 26 at the Pitchfork Music Festival

Flatstock 26 at the Pitchfork Music Festival

Flatstock 26 poster by Landland. Hero is heading back to Chicago for Flatstock 26 at the Pitchfork Music Festival !! And this year we’ll be set up for all three days!! THE DETAILS: Friday, July 16 – Sunday, July 18, 2010 Friday: 3pm- 10pm Saturday + Sunday: 12pm – 10pm Union Park – Chicago IL [...]

Rock for Kids Poster Artist Interview Series - Rescheduled

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 [...]

Upcoming Events

Upcoming Events

Friday, June 4 – Rock for Kids Poster Artist Interview Series with Strawberryluna Friday, June 4 – Rock Paper Show: Flatstock Volume I – Book Signing at Strand in NYC Saturday, June 5 & Sunday, June 6 – Renegade Craft Fair Brooklyn Saturday, June 12 & Sunday, June 13 – Allentown Art Festival Saturday, July [...]


Renegade Craft Fair - Brooklyn

Renegade Craft Fair – Brooklyn

Hero will be participating in 6th Annual Renegade Craft Fair in Brooklyn THIS WEEKEND!! This year’s event is taking place Saturday and Sunday June 5 + 6 from 11am – 7pm, at McCarren Park. There will be over 300 of today’s finest indie-craft talents from all over the nation, free workshops, entertainment + other features! There [...]

Rock Paper Show: Flatstock Volume I - Book Signing at Strand in NYC

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 [...]

Live Printing at Artists & Models: Stimulus

Live Printing at Artists & Models: Stimulus

HERO will be printing posters LIVE at Hallwalls Presents Artists & Models: Stimulus this Saturday night, May 1 from 9-2am. We designed the look for this year’s event and we will be printing a silkscreen event poster (a simplified version of the above promo poster) that will be available for purchase that night at the [...]


Spring Cleaning Hero Poster Sale

Spring Cleaning Hero Poster Sale

The Spring Cleaning Hero Poster Sale Friday April 23 and Saturday April 24 at the Hero Boutique in Buffalo, New York* $5 and $10 posters!!!!! From 12pm to 6pm both Friday and Saturday we are pulling out the scratch & dent posters, as well as posters that we are just plain sick of looking at, [...]

At SXSW? Check out "It's So Big" & don't forget Flatstock!

At SXSW? Check out “It’s So Big” & don’t forget Flatstock!

Hero was asked to be a presenter on a panel at SXSW entitled, It’s So Big! Packaging Design from CDs to Vinyl to Merchandise. Hero’s Mark Brickey, along with Susan Tanner, Brian Grunert, Jon Langford, and Alicia J. Rose will examine the role of design of album artwork in illustrating the music through visual examples. [...]

Flatstock 24 and Flatstock Print Demos

Flatstock 24 and Flatstock Print Demos

FLATSTOCK 24 is being held in Austin, Texas in conjunction with the world’s premier Music Festival South By Southwest. Poster artists from around the world will hit The Austin Convention Center for the bi-annual convention sponsored by the American Poster Institute, dedicated to the promotion of music poster art and design worldwide. You’ve heard the sordid [...]