BLOGBLOGhttp://www.mikemerg.com/blog/2012-04-23T18:26:50ZSquarespace•ENTERTAINMENT 720 PRINTShttp://www.mikemerg.com/blog/2012/4/17/entertainment-720-prints.htmlMikeMerg2012-04-17T23:31:35Z2012-04-17T23:31:35ZI had been pretty static on the screenprinting front but recently felt the urge to make some prints. After kicking around some ideas, I decided on doing an Entertainment 720 poster. Parks and Rec is probably one of my favorite TV shows to come along since Seinfeld, and I wanted to pay tribute. Ron Swanson would have been fun, but he's been done so many times, so I settled on an E720 movie-style poster. It's a 2-color print, size 17x24. I plan to set up an Etsy shop in the near future, and sell them there, so sit tight until then.

]]>•HELIGOATS PRINTShttp://www.mikemerg.com/blog/2011/9/15/heligoats-prints.htmlMikeMerg2011-09-15T23:16:09Z2011-09-15T23:16:09ZI'm back from my trip to Washington and finally have a chance to share some photos of the finished 8.28 Heligoats prints. They turned out great and we managed to move all of them at the show. Here's several photos I took of the prints.

]]>•POSTER DESIGN PROCESShttp://www.mikemerg.com/blog/2011/8/9/poster-design-process.htmlMikeMerg2011-08-10T03:59:38Z2011-08-10T03:59:38ZI've finished the poster design for our August 28th show, and thought I'd share some of my process on this one, since the Beakman character took on quite a transformation from the original form. I posted images of the actual illustration process in a previous blog post, but wanted to show how I got to that point.

The basis of the August-28-hideout poster illustration, was an earlier illustration I did for a Heligoats poster quite some time ago, which was based off illustrations & Clay-models done by Heligoats front man, Chris Otepka. That illustration looked like this:

It's fun and simple - essentially following the design of Otepka's original Beakman Character. So Based on the original design, I created a sketch as the basis for the NEW Stylized Beakman. With the original design as a loose framework, and several bird images as reference, I quickly sketched out this:

After scanning in the sketch, I dropped it into Illustrator and went vector crazy. As stated before, some process pics of my actual illustration & poster design can be found a few blog posts ago - I also post many process pictures to my Tumblr and Twitter pages.

After many hours of work and revisions, I ended up with this. I'm pretty happy with the way it turned out.

]]>•LOLLAPALOOZA 2011http://www.mikemerg.com/blog/2011/8/8/lollapalooza-2011.htmlMikeMerg2011-08-08T19:39:10Z2011-08-08T19:39:10ZI attended Lollapalooza this weekend for the first time in several years, and had an absolute blast. I got to see tons of great music and hang with some friends I haven't seen in quite a while. It's Hard to say what my favorite set of the weekend was, but it's probably a toss up between Ween & Death From Above 1979. We managed to get some solid spots for several bands, which allowed me to capture several fairly decent photos. Here's a small collection of them.

The Perry's Stage Sign...

 

Death From Above 1979.

 

Ween.

 

My Morning Jacket, with a guest appearance from MegaMan.

 

The approaching storm on Sunday evening.

 

 Mountain Goats.

 

More Mountain Goats.

]]>•MIKE MERG STICKERS!!http://www.mikemerg.com/blog/2011/7/28/mike-merg-stickers.htmlMikeMerg2011-07-29T00:19:43Z2011-07-29T00:19:43ZI've wanted to get some self-promo stickers printed up for quite some time now, and finally put in an order with the VinylHeavies™ over at StickeRobot. The design is based off an illustration for a poster I did earlier this year. I plan on distributing them at various upcoming shows / locations. Here's the design... Can't wait for the real thing!

]]>•HELIGOATS 8|28|11 POSTERhttp://www.mikemerg.com/blog/2011/7/28/heligoats-82811-poster.htmlMikeMerg2011-07-28T04:29:34Z2011-07-28T04:29:34Z I've been working on a poster for an upcoming Heligoats show, and chose to do a very stylized Illustration of the Heligoats adopted mascot, Carl Beakman for the central piece of the poster. I plan on doing a very small run of prints for this poster that will most likely be for sale at said show - Which will take place on the 28th of August at the Hideout in Chicago. I will also have prints available at my society6 shop. Here are some process & detail photos of the poster design thus far.

]]>•NEW BUCKETHEAD POSTER!http://www.mikemerg.com/blog/2011/7/18/new-buckethead-poster.htmlMikeMerg2011-07-18T17:43:51Z2011-07-18T17:43:51ZI started messing around with a Buckethead design the other week and this is what I came up with. I'm pretty happy with the results. I've Been trying to work some of that victorian style into my work lately & I think this turned out well. Originally the idea was to do a small run of hand-pulled screen prints for this one - But some other projects have jumped up, so for now prints available through my Society6 shop. I may have some screen printed versions available in the future...

]]>•SNOOP DOGG POSTER!http://www.mikemerg.com/blog/2011/6/21/snoop-dogg-poster.htmlMikeMerg2011-06-21T20:56:02Z2011-06-21T20:56:02ZMy friends over at KickStand Productions recently booked a Snoop Dogg show & asked me to design / print some posters for the show. I was truly honored and jumped on the job, as I've been a huge Snoop fan since the Doggy Style days. He's a true icon in the hip hop world and quite an innovator as well. This has been a very fun project. Here's a few 'mock-up' & process photos...

]]>•New Print! | Photos!http://www.mikemerg.com/blog/2011/5/25/new-print-photos.htmlMikeMerg2011-05-25T19:15:31Z2011-05-25T19:15:31ZI got the Get Up Kids / Saves The Day prints all done & decided to take some phtos. Check 'em out! Click a photo for larger version...

]]>•Mike Merg | From Concept to Printhttp://www.mikemerg.com/blog/2011/4/30/mike-merg-from-concept-to-print.htmlMikeMerg2011-05-01T03:09:55Z2011-05-01T03:09:55ZI put this 2 minute video together documenting my most recent poster design from concept to print. Take a look & get a snapshot of my process...

 

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