Saturday, March 04, 2023

Picture This Press book launch (right now) and Kickstarter

Attend the Launch Party and Gallery Show!

Sat. March 4, 7-10 p.m.: Join us for the book's Launch Party to be held at Lost Origins Gallery in Washington, D.C. We'll have food, drinks, and an opportunity to see an exhibit of Everett's work. Come meet the artist, the Picture This Press team, and rub elbows with the cool kids!
Sat. March 4 - April 8: Lost Origins Gallery in Washington, D.C. will be hosting an exhibit of all of Everett's work for a little over a month. Check the gallery's website for a listing of author talks, live music, and other events throughout the length of the exhibit.

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Let It Bleed: Twenty Years of Poster Design by Jeffrey Everett

$60 • hardcover w/dust-jacket • 444 pp. • Color • 9" x 12"
($65 after Kickstarter ends on April 8)


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Marrying Sight to Sound

Few concert poster artists can post numbers like Jeffrey Everett: 400+ concert posters produced over a 20-year career. Until now, owning his work meant owning one of the beautiful silkscreen posters that have been produced in limited runs over the years. It's past time that this body of work gets collected–for the first time–in an exquisitely produced 444-page hardcover that carefully reproduces more than 350 of Everett's award-winning posters alongside his observations on his craft, career, and collaborations with a multitude of performers. To round things out, some of those artists share their own thoughts on working with Everett.

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Getting over the finish line...

We've been working on this project for well over a year now, taking our time to get it right and to let Everett nail a book design on par with the quality of his beautifully designed posters. This hefty tome will be produced at a generously oversized 9x12" and offset printed on heavy artbook paper stock (157gsm) that will do justice to the work being presented. As you can see in the video and the various photos, 98% of that work is now done, but we need your help to make this book a reality. Please consider backing this Kickstarter




Jeffrey Everett

Everett is a successful designer, illustrator, and author working in the Washington, D.C. metro area under the moniker Rockets are Red for the last 20 years. He has created award-winning designs for bands such as Wilco, Social Distortion, Foo Fighters, The Decemberists, Gaslight Anthem, Lou Reed, Rancid, Metric, Blondie, and many, many more. Everett is the recipient of gold and silver awards from The Art Directors Club, "best-in-categories" from the AdClub (Addys), included in multiple AIGA50 shows from 2006 to the present, and been seen in variety of publications. His work has been stapled on walls of acclaimed rock clubs, inked into brave people's skin, and framed in high-end galleries around the world. His work has sold in galleries in New York City, Los Angeles, Chicago, Boston, and Washington, D.C.

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