The Black Keys Poster
June 27th, 2011 // Posted by Dan in Blog, DKNG Work, Poster, Process, Video
During this year’s Flatstock at Austin’s SXSW a guy walked into our booth and asked if we would be interested in doing a poster for his band. It’s a pretty common question, but what came out of it was a pretty amazing opportunity for us. When I asked more, he explained that he manages The Black Keys. At that moment I was doing my best to stay as professional possible, but on the inside I felt like a little kid. We’re HUGE fans of The Black Keys to say the least and were thrilled with the prospect of creating a poster for them.
The poster we created is a three color screen print and has a limited edition of 275. It’s available for purchase in our store.
Below is a little video going over our process from design to printing, which is followed by close up shots of the print.
THE VIDEO
CLOSE UP SHOTS
15 Responses to “The Black Keys Poster”
Nick says:
It’s funny you mention that story because I actually remember seeing you talking to him, and how excited you were afterwards.
Dan says:
Haha! Small world man.
Niko says:
This is great, love TBK and love your posters, what more can i ask.
After I finish typing this I’ll go grab one. I got Phish poster and that was really super fast shipment, thanks.
Greetings from Croatia
Szabolcs Sz says:
Absolutely gorgeous! Great job. The slingshot is my personal fav…
Molly Tuttle says:
After I pull my jaw up off the floor, I will try and find words to describe how awesome that video is. You are THE best of the best.
Jeff says:
Congratulations you guys! I love to see you guys getting some big publicity on this one……very well deserved. As always, Kim and I are very happy for you and grateful for getting to play a small part in your journey.
Dan says:
Thanks Jeff. Looking forward to Mexico!
Nathan says:
AH! Why is this a limited print! This is such a fantastic poster you should really make more!
Dan Corcoran says:
absolutely beautiful work guys. DKNG always blows up the spot.
Ana says:
Adorei!!!
vocês são muito bons no que estão fazendo.
parabéns.
BRASIL
Ihsan KL says:
what a great process! love the details!
Brandon says:
Question:
When you are creating bitmaps, do you normally use PS or AI to create them and is there a standard setting that you output it as?
Dan says:
We create bitmaps in PS, but the art begins in AI. our normal settings are round halftone dots, 53 lines/inch and start with an angle of 22.5 and add 30° for each layer to avoid Moiré patterns.
Mira says:
I hope you don’t mind answering two burning questions
1. What do you do with gradients in Illustrator? I noticed you had some on the cases in the beginning and then they got halftoned I don’t know where… DO you pull them individually into photoshop and bitmap them?
2. Do you output your final separations in AI or PS?
Thanks!
Dan says:
Mira,
1. Yes, exactly.
2. We still have all the elements in illustrator and just select which one’s should be white or black to create the seps.
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