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•ENTERTAINMENT 720 PRINTS

MikeMerg — Tue, 17 Apr 2012 23:31:35 +0000

I 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 PRINTS

MikeMerg — Thu, 15 Sep 2011 23:16:09 +0000

I'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 PROCESS

MikeMerg — Wed, 10 Aug 2011 03:59:38 +0000

I'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 2011

MikeMerg — Mon, 08 Aug 2011 19:39:10 +0000

I 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!!

MikeMerg — Fri, 29 Jul 2011 00:19:43 +0000

I'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 POSTER

MikeMerg — Thu, 28 Jul 2011 04:29:34 +0000

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!

MikeMerg — Mon, 18 Jul 2011 17:43:51 +0000

I 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!

MikeMerg — Tue, 21 Jun 2011 20:56:02 +0000

My 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!

MikeMerg — Wed, 25 May 2011 19:15:31 +0000

I 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 Print

MikeMerg — Sun, 01 May 2011 03:09:55 +0000

I 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...