Is it pretentious to number your posters?

[Dan Apparatus]

We number our prints but we do it on the back so the front can stay nice and clean. We started out just stamping our shit on the back and did that for about the first 6 months of posters. After that we started signing and numbering underneath the stamp. Neither of us started doing it for collectable value because that just doesn't exist for us. But when you're actually printing your own posters you want some way to signify that, yes, this poster was hand printed. At least that's why we do it. So when we say "these are hand printed" and they say "oh yeah?" we can flip the poster over and show them that they're all stamped and signed and numbered. In a way it's kind of proof for people.

I agree with Art's assessment of not signing but I also know that Art isn't printing his own posters. I think if someone is not only designing the poster but spending hours sweating over an inky squeegee to get some posters done they have a right to sign that piece of shit. It's just as much art as any art print as far as the process goes, it just has a purpose.

[Platinum Rich]

i'll admit, it feels really weird signing and numbering a poster. but people who pay 20 bucks or more for my stuff want it, so i do it. case closed.

[RichieGoodtimes]

I think if you're gonna sign them then do it pre-schools style. Big and with a crayon. Don't forget to put your agre on their, either.

[Platinum Rich]

i sign em by poking holes for the number and signature with a pushpin.

[RichieGoodtimes]

If anyone has a poster of mine that doesn't stink of beer and have a huge beer stain on it, then it's not authentic Goodtimes.

[art chantry]

xxoo

[Bradley W. Zimmerman]

if you design it and pull the print, sign it.
if it's photocopied or laserprinted, sign it to be a dick.

[jcooper]

i'm going to start signing all of my posters with a mixture of ink, blood, and semen just to show how authentic (and utterly vile) my work really is.

[RichieGoodtimes]

be even more vile if it wasn't your blood and semen.

[Dan Apparatus]

Art- that's interesting. I guess now that you mention it I am familiar with a the "art presses" that do just that, print the artists' shit for them. And don't get me started on the uselessness of art today. At least "gallery fine art." That's a whole other subject and I'm guessing that we're probably in agreement.

Richie- don't forget to put your homeroom on all posters too.

Dan