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While We’re Away

Posting is going to be a little light around here for the next week or so. We’re going to that place that Michiganders affectionately call “Up North” for the weekend, and then buckling down in preparation for the People’s Arts Festival. In the meantime, may we suggest a few things to keep you busy?

• The Silent Giants have a show going on at 323East. We missed the opening and don’t have pics, but their posters will be up through the weekend.
• You can head to Midtown tonight for the Canfield Street Market. 5-9 outside of City Bird.
• After that, hit up the closing reception for That DAM Box Show. 6-9 pm at the Detroit Artists Market.
• Send us a submission! Suggest an artist for us to blog about by emailing us at heyyouguys at perfectlaughter dot com. Please don’t be shy about suggesting yourself, even if you don’t have a fancy website/portfolio. Send us a couple of images, and you could get a little piece of the internet in the form of a Perfect Laughter blog post.
• We’re in the middle of finishing a couple of new prints. We’ve been posting process pics on Twitter, as well as other daily shenanigans. You can follow us at @perfectlaughtr.
• If you’re not into Twitter, we have a Facebook fan page or a like page or whatever it’s called this week. But we try to only post important stuff on there so we’re not spammin’ up people’s Facebooks.

We’ll try to post a few times next week as we are able, and we hope to see you next weekend at the People’s Arts Festival!

GIVEAWAY WINNER!!

I got so many great suggestions for posters from our giveaway entrants. Thanks to everyone who entered. I’m going to have a tough time deciding what to buy. Here’s a sampling of not all, but many of the posters and poster artists that our fine readers suggested. You guys have such great taste.

Clockwise from top left: The Bird Machine, House Industries, The Wheatfield, Nate Duval, Jeff Boyes, Brainstorm, Todd Slater. Center: Mattson Creative.

AND THE WINNER IS…

Angela Duncan!! Congrats, lady! And thanks for your awesome suggestion of the Take It Easy poster by Brainstorm.

If you didn’t win, or didn’t enter, not to worry. Our fancy print is now in our shop, available to one and all. Thanks again to everyone who suggested a poster!

GIVEAWAY: Suggest A Poster And Win a Print!

I moved into a new cube at work about a month ago, and I finally got some free time to spruce it up a bit.

From left: Stumptown Printers bike poster, Rar Rar Press postcard, one of our engagement photos shot by Studio 6.23, postcard by Keegan Meegan, Nada Surf poster by The Small Stakes, Spoon poster by Hammerpress, Death Cab poster by The Small Stakes, and Child Bite / Zoos of Berlin / Silent Years poster by Pinky Blaster (I’m assuming).

Here’s the problem, and not that it’s a bad problem to have, but the wall I sit next to looks like this:

Doesn’t it look sad and empty? I want to fill it up! So I’m asking you, our fabulous blog readers: what are some of your favorite poster artists? By commenting on this post with a suggestion, you can win our newest print.

Comments will be closed at midnight on July 20, and we’ll announce the winner the next morning. The print is 12.5 x 12.5 so it fits easily in a record album frame, and it’s screenprinted on French Paper’s Dur-o-tone in Steel Grey. The words are from the city of Detroit’s motto. Good luck! And thanks for your help!

Happy Belated Birthday, America

How was your 4th? We were VERY hard at work (hence the lack of posts). It was probably not the best idea to start refinishing our floors in the same month as three major art + craft shows. In between making a lot of sawdust, though, we played with sparklers!

And, we made this: our latest screenprint.

It’s the City of Detroit’s motto. We’ll have it for sale at Baar Bazaar on Saturday. Hope to see you there!

Art-o-mat

Art-o-mat is a company, founded in 1997 that converts vintage cigarette machines into art dispensers in which people can buy small works of art. Currently there are 82 machines operating within the United States and internationally., with over 400 artists contributing work. Artists who are interested in submitting work can find the guild lines to the submission process here.

Samples of artwork along with the Art-o-carton that can be purchased in the Art-o-mat online store.

For those of you in the Detroit area interested in learning more about Art-o-mat, Took Gallagher will be holding sessions this summer. She will show examples of various types of art, why some things vend well (or don’t), and help with suggestions for adapting your art to the program. She will also provide a free box w/cellophane OR a block w/cellophane for use in your submission. The sessions are free but pre-registration is required. The first session is June 14th from 7-9 pm at Detroit Comics and the second it , June 19th from 4-6 at Solid Grounds Coffeehouse in Northville. Took can be reached through her blog here.

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