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Originally Posted by seriplop
too add another 2 cents ( i just can't shup up about this , can i?) but , we've spent a fair bit of time networking , collabing with , visiting studios of print artists in europe and one thing i've notticed is that the underground printmaking culture there is WAY more focused on bookss , comics and art prints rather than gig posters.
these things all seem to do very well in terms of sales , media attention , distribution and gallery exhibitions.
it seems very popular to publish collective screened books , i can think of many studios , expecially in france who do this.
many of the artists we are palz with in europe tend to spend most of their energy on these things and see posters as a small percentage of what they do.
thus , (and this is my speculating here) they may not identify with being "poster artists" the way many of us do.
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Yes, I see this a lot too. Actually, I just read about this design team in this months creative review that went to SXSW and saw all the awesomeness that Flatstock is and got inspired.....not to start making gigposters mind you, but to make a bunch or screen printed art prints.
The studio space that 3d and I printed at was filled with art prints, we might have been the only two poster artists there. And that seems to be the same for all the print studios I see.