Collecting and Printing Posters
I received a very interesting email-inquiry yesterday, with regards to availability and of optaining posters for shows. I would assume they are advertising posters I have blogged about on my weblog promoting upcoming shows and activities.
I recognize that perhaps for some events, tangible posters might not even be actually printed, elides online promo-jpgs, and even if they are ~ along with postcards ~ the effort of posting off said items, may well be hardly worth the trouble, or even the cost of postage. And of course I am specifically addressing event posters, and not prints made for sale at a show.
How about organizers prepare posters and postcards ready for print for whomever is interested into collecting, or even help promoting the event via plastering posters on their own walls? Folks can just click on a link on the event page, and that'll be that. Far be it there is no reason to promote another country's event on your neighborhood walls, it may well be a welcomed piece of memorabilia to a collector to keep? No doubt there are folks doing that now already of course, but for those not, what's to lose except time and effort?
[Collection of event / show postcards courtesy of Leecifer]
Along the same rickety train-of-thought-tracks, the thought of the current ongoing devastation in Japan pops into mind. Folks who dabble in graphics can even do up a specific image or graphic, and the money paid by interested folks for the privilege of downloading and printing that image, could be used in donations for relief, won't it? Of course we are talking about home-printers, and of course we are assuming folks are not out to swipe your image for commercial gain … just a thought anyways, and Shin Tanaka is currently doing a donation drive with the download of the template for his paperboy, as well.
[Would you want to purchase a poster image like this for the cause?]
Being a closet magpie, I have always been interested in collecting posters, especially movie posters ~ and by that I mean double-sided ones, and not the single-side general reprints (of which I have loads of as well muhahahaha). In a way, they fueled my passion for filmmaking all those years back ~ not content alone with seeing my name in roller credits, I would've loved to see my name plastered on film posters as well! A silly notion, I admit now...
Besides the obvious lack of wall-display space where I live now, there may well be hardly space for posters and a minuscule selection of prints (not a whole lot tho, as I lurve me my large print-area). but if course there is a dream I would be able to hangup framed large-scale posters and rotate displaying them ever so often… somewhere within my grotto-storage, have also have loads of comicbook posters, music-related posters, and other varied large scale prints like uncut trading card sheets (yet another weakness). Might consider a reprieve for Sucker Punch character posters tho … Yep.
[Posing in front of a huge Martin Gore poster promo-ing "Counterfeit"
over two decades back / poster belonged to my brother actually…]
One of my earlier "poster-work" that popped into mind, were the weekly "Promotional Menu Posters" from a series of eatery branches I used to work in, regularly held. No less than being the first job I had ever done and been paid an hourly rate, it was the only other job that I had the chance to win spare change and desserts, as I had often won the poster-design contests! Wish I had taken photos of them though, as they no doubt would elicit their fair share of laughter now ;p
A poster image, a postcard or a flyer, harbingers of a show or an event, often utilized for the promotion of said event, and afters a forgotten image, but for online archives of … wouldn't it be great to have them framed? Or collectable?
Cheers
Andy
I recognize that perhaps for some events, tangible posters might not even be actually printed, elides online promo-jpgs, and even if they are ~ along with postcards ~ the effort of posting off said items, may well be hardly worth the trouble, or even the cost of postage. And of course I am specifically addressing event posters, and not prints made for sale at a show.
How about organizers prepare posters and postcards ready for print for whomever is interested into collecting, or even help promoting the event via plastering posters on their own walls? Folks can just click on a link on the event page, and that'll be that. Far be it there is no reason to promote another country's event on your neighborhood walls, it may well be a welcomed piece of memorabilia to a collector to keep? No doubt there are folks doing that now already of course, but for those not, what's to lose except time and effort?
[Collection of event / show postcards courtesy of Leecifer]
Along the same rickety train-of-thought-tracks, the thought of the current ongoing devastation in Japan pops into mind. Folks who dabble in graphics can even do up a specific image or graphic, and the money paid by interested folks for the privilege of downloading and printing that image, could be used in donations for relief, won't it? Of course we are talking about home-printers, and of course we are assuming folks are not out to swipe your image for commercial gain … just a thought anyways, and Shin Tanaka is currently doing a donation drive with the download of the template for his paperboy, as well.
[Would you want to purchase a poster image like this for the cause?]
Being a closet magpie, I have always been interested in collecting posters, especially movie posters ~ and by that I mean double-sided ones, and not the single-side general reprints (of which I have loads of as well muhahahaha). In a way, they fueled my passion for filmmaking all those years back ~ not content alone with seeing my name in roller credits, I would've loved to see my name plastered on film posters as well! A silly notion, I admit now...
Besides the obvious lack of wall-display space where I live now, there may well be hardly space for posters and a minuscule selection of prints (not a whole lot tho, as I lurve me my large print-area). but if course there is a dream I would be able to hangup framed large-scale posters and rotate displaying them ever so often… somewhere within my grotto-storage, have also have loads of comicbook posters, music-related posters, and other varied large scale prints like uncut trading card sheets (yet another weakness). Might consider a reprieve for Sucker Punch character posters tho … Yep.
[Posing in front of a huge Martin Gore poster promo-ing "Counterfeit"
over two decades back / poster belonged to my brother actually…]
One of my earlier "poster-work" that popped into mind, were the weekly "Promotional Menu Posters" from a series of eatery branches I used to work in, regularly held. No less than being the first job I had ever done and been paid an hourly rate, it was the only other job that I had the chance to win spare change and desserts, as I had often won the poster-design contests! Wish I had taken photos of them though, as they no doubt would elicit their fair share of laughter now ;p
A poster image, a postcard or a flyer, harbingers of a show or an event, often utilized for the promotion of said event, and afters a forgotten image, but for online archives of … wouldn't it be great to have them framed? Or collectable?
Cheers
Andy
