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The Small Stakes: Big on Old Type
At last weekend’s Treasure Island Music Festival I met the creator of the event’s charming identity, Jason Munn. Under the name The Small Stakes, Munn is among a young breed of talented music poster designers that includes The Heads of State and longtime Typographica favorites Aesthetic Apparatus.
Munn’s designs are simple and clever, often employing pre-digital type. There is still plenty of rub-down lettering, film fonts, and Dover stuff that hasn’t been digitized, so Munn creates the vectors himself — a trend that is more and more common these days, but not usually executed as well. Any imperfections in the letter outlines are treated kindly by the irregular nature of screen printing.
You can purchase many of Munn’s hand-printed posters at his site for a very reasonable $25 a pop.
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Comments
Thanks for the article, Stephen. I'm am so impressed with The Small Stakes' work: clean, classic and fabulous. Sharon Sharon Van Lieu | Sep 22, 2007 11:05 PM
The "Treasure Island" is great. sparkling tux | Sep 23, 2007 09:55 AM
Hey I've met that guy too. He does fierce work. Adam Harvey | Sep 23, 2007 11:37 AM
I love these posters; thanks for the article, Stephen! Ricardo Cordoba | Sep 25, 2007 12:30 PM
Subtle and excellent. I love Munn's restrained color sense and use of spaced linear capitals---bold ones at that. The spaceyness helps create the "clean, classic and fabulous" look Sharon points out. Classicism never dies, it just goes on redefining itself. James Arboghast | Sep 26, 2007 09:24 AM
Thanks for mentioning/linking 'The Small Stakes'. Breathtaking and looovely works. Bookmarked and recommended. Dav(id Hubner) | Sep 30, 2007 12:42 PM
Jason does great work. I picked up his poster for Matt Pond PA at their Troubadour show a couple years ago. Very nice stuff. Ken Messenger | Oct 1, 2007 03:43 PM
Great stuff. His poster for Nouvelle Vague is a wonderful ode to Excoffon's fashion advertising work as well. Lovely, lovely stuff. Tiffany | Oct 4, 2007 09:50 AM
Sweet posters. Bought 2 of the the other day and I was impressed with the quality of them. Will be buying more!!! Chris | Feb 27, 2008 08:12 AM |
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