Throughout the years, posters promoting everything from 1980s punk and heavy metal concerts to swap meets, street fairs, gun and bridal shows, local political campaigns and countless artist projects have been printed on Colby’s Heidelberg letterset press. Their fluorescent posters have been disseminated on every high-traffic surface in the city, and their collection of over 150 wood and metal typefaces-usually bold and sans serif-are an integral part of Los Angeles’ visual aesthetic. The Los Angeles–based Colby Poster Printing Company has been a friend to local artists ever since Ed Ruscha’s seminal Colby-printed announcement for the 1962 Pasadena Art Museum exhibition New Paintings of Common Objects. Edited by Christopher Michlig, Brian Roettinger, Jan Tumlir. 324 pgs / 300 color.Įmail Trade Sales: the Good Name of the Company: Artworks and ephemera produced by or in tandem with the Colby Printing CompanyĪn ode to a legendary printing company that played integral role in Los Angeles’ visual aesthetic, with works from Ed Ruscha, Kathryn Andrews, Scott Benzel, and others KATHARINA HINSBERG: SKETCHES WITHDRAWN KERBER ISBN: 9783735607027įORMAT: Pbk, 7.5 x 9.5 in. NEIL GALL: DRAWING RIDINGHOUSE ISBN: 9781909932593ĭANIEL CLARKE: LONG ISLAND STEIDL ISBN: 9783958298903 GENARO STROBEL: SIZE HATJE CANTZ ISBN: 9783775748773 JIM DINE: I PRINT STEIDL ISBN: 9783958298729ĬHRISTO AND JEANNE-CLAUDE: PRINTS AND OBJECTS HATJE CANTZ ISBN: 9783775748834 THE PICASSO CONNECTION HATJE CANTZ ISBN: 9783775748056ĭO HO SUH: WORKS ON PAPER AT STPI DELMONICO BOOKS/STPI ISBN: 9781942884866 ITALIAN ARCHITECTURAL DRAWINGS FROM THE CRONSTEDT COLLECTION IN THE NATIONALMUSEUM HATJE CANTZ ISBN: 9783775748025 REVISITING AMERICA: THE PRINTS OF CURRIER & IVES JOSLYN ART MUSEUM ISBN: 9781646570102 GENJI: THE PRINCE AND THE PARODIES MFA PUBLICATIONS, MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS, BOSTON ISBN: 9780878468836 continue to blogĭOROTHY KUNHARDT STEIDL/MESERVE-KUNHARDT FOUNDATION ISBN: 9783969990148 Featured here are prints by Cali Thornhill Dewitt. Concerts, gun shows and swap meets were among the commonly printed advertisements. None cooler than this one, featuring 300 fluorescent reproductions of the industrial letterpress posters printed by family-owned Colby Poster Printing Company of Los Angeles from 1948 until 2012, when advances in digital printing finally shut it down. In homage to the DIY sign-bearers of the last few weeks, we're highlighting some of our favorite books on poster design. Featured posters are reproduced from In the Good Name of the Company: Artworks and ephemera produced by or in tandem with the Colby Printing Company.įROM THE ARTBOOK BLOG CORY REYNOLDS | DATE In the Good Name of the Company One thing we can all agree upon following the post-inaugural protests: when left to their own devices, Americans will make the most amazing posters. Printed in four neon-spot colors, this book is a unique tribute to Colby.
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This book documents the print shop’s history and one of its final projects: a series of editioned posters by artists including Ruscha, Kathryn Andrews, Scott Benzel, Peter Coffin, Daniel Eatock, Eve Fowler, Jacob Kassay, Allen Ruppersberg, Andy Spade and Craig Stecyk. A family-owned and operated union print shop since 1948, the Colby Poster Printing Company closed its doors forever on December 31, 2012. An ode to a legendary printing company that played integral role in Los Angeles’ visual aesthetic, with works from Ed Ruscha, Kathryn Andrews, Scott Benzel, and othersThe Los Angeles–based Colby Poster Printing Company has been a friend to local artists ever since Ed Ruscha’s seminal Colby-printed announcement for the 1962 Pasadena Art Museum exhibition New Paintings of Common Objects.
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