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Interview: John Bailey

I first met John Bailey up in Grand Rapids, where I found out he was the artist behind all the graphics for the band Stepdad. Even after doing some research for this interview, that was still all I could find out about him. He has no About page, no “social media presence” for self-promotion, just a Tumblr of his work that fills up at a breakneck pace. It’s strange these days, it seems, to find an artist who spends 110% of their time just creating. And so the interview started with a pretty basic question: “tell me about yourself…”

Could you give me a quick introduction or bio? How did you get started as an artist?

John Bailey, house sloth, YouTube addict…artist. If I were to describe my work to someone who had never seen it…I guess I’d say its what you would see if someone put an SNES in a microwave, while NBA Jam is playing.

READ THE ENTIRE INTERVIEW: John Bailey

Beautiful Monstrosities at 323 East In Royal Oak

Two of our favorite artists, Audrey Pongracz and April Segedi have a show opening this weekend at 323 East Gallery in Royal Oak Michigan. They were each nice enough to answer a few questions for us regarding their work for the show.

Read the interview, as well as get a sneak peek of some of the art from the show behind the cut.

Interview: KeeganMeegan

We found out about KeeganMeegan Letterpress & Bindery on our honeymoon in Portland a year and a half ago. After picking up a postcard for an art show at Em Space Book Arts Center, we were lucky enough to find Keegan Wenkman working in his space there. He was very nice and patient with the two of us rubbernecks as we watched him print some posters on a Vandercook.

Keegan and his partner Katy Meegan have been designing and printing together since 2007. The pair has amassed an impressive amount of knowledge and equipment about printmaking and bookmaking. If they can raise the money, (and you can help!) they’re hoping to use their expertise to save an incredibly rare C&P cylinder press bound for scrap. Ever since we first happened upon them, they’ve been a huge inspiration to us, and we’re super excited that they agreed to do an interview.

READ THE INTERVIEW with KeeganMeegan

A Couple of Questions for HAM

Well, this is it. Dylan Haigh and Kristy Martino are the last couple in our interview series. Luckily, they’ve got their hands in enough projects to keep you hopping all over the internets for quite a while. OK Great is where Dylan and Kristy began blogging, and still do. After a while, a couple of the OK Great kids started their own blogs, including Dylan’s Hard Feelings. There, he somehow unearths about 47 amazing, unheard of artists every single day. Then, in a passive aggressive attempt to get Kristy to take pictures again, Dylan bought her a camera and built her a photo blog called Nothing Nice.

In addition to her fashion photography skills learned at FIT, Kristy is a killer writer. And Dylan is like an unstoppable steamroller of creativity. It’s fitting that the two chose a meat cleaver for their logo for HAM, or Haigh and Martino. HAM is a brand new creative shop that allows them to put all of their many talents to great use, together. The amount of work they’ve done while HAM is still in its infancy is astounding.

READ MORE: Haigh and Martino answer our last Couple of Questions…

A Couple of Questions for Fizz

Together, CCS grad Katie Major and her boyfriend Jasen Melnick are Fizz, a design duo that specializes in packaging design for breweries and wineries. These Cleveland lovebirds are just getting started building their brand and doing what they love as a team. We think they’re a lovely couple with a lot of talent and a ton of potential.

READ MORE: A Couple of Questions for Katie and Jasen of Fizz…

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