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Sunday, September 17, 2006
Swiss Rock'N'Roll
Here is a gallery showing the gig posters done by an astonishing swiss designer, Mart Infanger. His rock’n’roll graphic work is an audacious mix between Hatch Show Print style and German old Fraktur typefaces. He works for venues and also for a swiss record label: Voodoo Rythm Records owned by Reverend Beatman, a singer who, back in the 90s, under the name of Lightning Beat-Man, was dressed like a mexican wrestler…
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luvyatoo
Thursday, August 31, 2006
Woah, these are pretty badass. More sensational than the Hatch Show Print stuff, though. H.S.P. is still pretty killer though; I highly reccomend dudes visit there if ever in Nashville. A lot of the Ad Agencies in the Nashville area do work in a kind of digitized more over-the top version of the Hatch Show Print style, but I think the Infanger stuff is a more successfull appropriation & advancement of Letterpress & Rock&Roll kickass styles.
Jerry Frissen
Thursday, August 31, 2006
Wow, this guy is beyond everything!
Allan L.
Thursday, August 31, 2006
I remember when he started posting his stuff at gigposters.com, everyone instantly fell in love with all of it. Myself included.
jimmy pantera
Thursday, August 31, 2006
Mart Infanger tries, and succeeds, to link american letterpress and woodtype with old german typefaces and symbols. That's difficult because in this context Fraktur typefaces were often used by heavy metal bands for ugly posters and record sleeves design. Fraktur also refers to hip hop, this style descending from mexican gangs. In Europe Fraktur typefaces were widely used in Germany from the middle ages till 1941. They are difficult to work with because they are very heavy.