Tenacious D Higher Ground 01 JDK/Stout

[automator]

This topic is dedicated to: Tenacious D Higher Ground 01 JDK/Stout

[dwlfennell]

Found this is a book called "1 of 1500" that documents the collaboration between JDK Design, Higher Ground, and the Iskra Print Collective.

I was attending college at Western Washington University in lovely Bellingham, Washington, and happened to walk into my design teacher's office and see him chatting with a smallish wiry person who introduced himself as Joe Peila. Joe mentioned he was looking for someone who could draw. I tricked him into thinking I could, and he asked me to draw some stuff for a poster he was working on, for a band called Tenacious D. The only drawback: he needed everything the next day. So, with a one-day deadline, I ditched classes, went home, and basically worked all night, and the next morning had a bunch of ideas, thinking "maybe they'll use one of these." And instead they ended up using all of them. Joe Peila was the brains behind the layout, etc.. Without his art direction/ideas, the poster would have turned out very different.

The idea is that the poster works either right-side up or upside down, and the small sketched include references to all of the D's songs.

...and thus Tyler Stout was discovered. Well, I'm not sure - think he was doing some flyers for Graceland and Berbati's around the same time. Maybe his first screen print though?

[canuck]

Love this band. Wanna seem them live SSOOooooo bad.

[theperfecttree]

let's see some better pics of this!

[dwlfennell]

If it's sufficiently flat, I'll try to snap some better pictures tonight.

[posterjunkie]

These are not signed or numbered, as is true for all the early, Higher Ground Winooski posters, most were editions of around 300.

Jacob
http://www.ConcertPosterArt.com

[mixmastermarflow2001]

Anyone got a line on one of these for sale or trade? Local to Vt and was at this show and been looking for two decades for this. Cash or trade or mouth hugs