Kings of Leon Philadelphia 09 Slater

automator · Mon May 04, 2009 5:19 pm

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Imatruck · Mon May 04, 2009 5:20 pm

this is awesome. I was hoping todd was doing the Philly show.

southerngarden · Mon May 04, 2009 5:30 pm

i will be at the Miami show on thursday night...im hopeing for a nice gig specific poster.

Vedderman23 · Mon May 04, 2009 5:53 pm

This is the only poster I've seen for their US tour.

Craig_of_J · Mon May 04, 2009 10:19 pm

I'm (admittedly) a broken record when it comes to Slater, but I really think Todd is absolutely on fire lately. The sketches he did here of the dogs, to me, represent a very new element to his design bag of tricks. I think they look so awesome. This piece is an interesting 'companion' in my opinion to his Jimmy Eat World/Broken Hearted Art Print. In that design, the cartoon-ish nature of design makes me think of 'the death of puppy love', but this design kind of freaks me out because of the viciousness associated with the characters.

I wonder if Todd was influenced by the widely reported (brotherly) infighting within KOL?

johnr1311 · Mon May 04, 2009 10:22 pm

I dont think those are brothers in the image.

itsdug · Tue May 05, 2009 1:42 am

johnr1311 wrote:I dont think those are brothers in the image.

not brothers. it's two guys that just met.

Craig_of_J · Tue May 05, 2009 7:50 am

johnr1311 wrote:I dont think those are brothers in the image.

You mean all images in posters aren't literal? That's crazy talk....

hungryone · Tue May 05, 2009 10:55 am

Does anyone know what the variant edition will look like?

itsdug · Tue May 05, 2009 10:59 am

hungryone wrote:Does anyone know what the variant edition will look like?

rumor has it that it's just like the regular edition, but a different color.

hungryone · Tue May 05, 2009 11:09 am

thanks for the reply... but i meant which colors specifically?

automator · Tue May 05, 2009 11:16 am

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iano-beano · Tue May 05, 2009 2:06 pm

Craig_of_J wrote:I'm (admittedly) a broken record when it comes to Slater, but I really think Todd is absolutely on fire lately. The sketches he did here of the dogs, to me, represent a very new element to his design bag of tricks. I think they look so awesome. This piece is an interesting 'companion' in my opinion to his Jimmy Eat World/Broken Hearted Art Print. In that design, the cartoon-ish nature of design makes me think of 'the death of puppy love', but this design kind of freaks me out because of the viciousness associated with the characters.

I wonder if Todd was influenced by the widely reported (brotherly) infighting within KOL?

From Todd's newsletter:

Kings of Leon - An interview I read for KOL said that their newest single, Sex on Fire is about people who have sex with each other despite hating each other and the image was built from that idea. My friend John Anderson thought the image represented a kind of teenage, animal type lust -which is also very fitting. I have to also thank Rob Jones for giving me the idea for this image.

Craig_of_J · Tue May 05, 2009 10:01 pm

Ya - thanks for posting that - I got the newsletter as well and that shed some light on things. I really like it when the artists talk about design inspirations etc. I was kicking myself after this years Austin Flatstock for not chatting more with Slater, Jones, Burwell and others about these sorts of things. In the end I spent much more time just circling around with my mouth agape...

automator · Fri May 08, 2009 1:25 pm

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