Caspian & Arms And Sleepers American Tour Poster

Poster design for Caspian & Arms And Sleepers North American Tour - Kris Johnsen 2010

I recently had the opportunity to design the North American Tour poster for two of my favorite bands, Caspian & Arms and Sleepers. Both from Massachusetts, and are some of the best live bands I have ever seem, I suggest you catch them if they are coming to your part of the country. This is the final design for the poster and will be in the next 2 weeks turned into a 6 color screen print in which the bands will take on tour with them. First stop Cambridge’s T.T. The Bears Place, on the 27th of February.
All other Caspian dates listed below.
2.27 Cambridge, MA @ TT The Bears Place
3.9 Washington DC @ Black Cat **
3.10 Harrisonburg, VA @ Blue Nile **
3.11 Johnson City, TN @ The Hide Away **
3.12 Nashville, TN @ The Muse **
3.14 Orlando, FL @ Wills Pub **
3.16 New Orleans, LA @ Dragons Den **
3.17 Shreveport, LA @ The Rustic Cowboy **
3.18 Houston, TX @ The Mink **
3.19 Austin, TX @ SXSW Festival
3.20 Austin, TX @ SXSW Festival
3.21 Austin, TX @ SXSW Festival
3.23 Tucson, AZ @ TBA
3.24 Scottsdale, AZ @ Rouge Bar **
3.25 Los Angeles, CA @ Pehrspace **
3.26 San Diego, CA @ Che Cafe **

4.2 Denver, CO @ 3 Kings **
4.3 Albequerque, NM @ Winnings **
4.4 TBA
4.5 Austin, TX @ Mohawk **
4.6 Dallas, TX @ Lounge on Elm Street **
4.7 Kansas City @ Record Bar
4.8 Cedar Falls, IA @ Hearst Center **
4.10 Champaign, IL @ Mike N Mollys **
4.13 Toronto, ON @ Rancho Relaxo **
4.14 Montreal, QC @ Divan Orange **
4.15 New York, NY @ Webster Hall Studio **
4.16 Philadelphia, PA @ Northstar **
4.18 Cleveland, OH @ Grog Shop ^
4.21 Chicago, IL @ Lincoln Hall ^
4.22 Madison, WI @ High Noon ^
4.23 Minneapolis, MN @ 400 Bar ^
4.24 Omaha, NE @ Slowdown Jr. ^
4.26 Denver, CO @ Larimer Lounge ^
4.27 Salt Lake City, UT @ Urban Lounge ^
4.29 Seattle, WA @ Neumos ^
4.30 Vancouver, Canada @ Biltmore Cabaret^

5.1 Portland, OR @ Hawthorne ^
5.2 Eugene, OR @ WOW Hall ^
5.5 Groningen, Netherlands @ Vera #
5.6 Njimegen,Netherlands @ Doornrosjie #
5.7 Koln, Germany @ Gebaude 9 #
5.8 Karlsruhe, Germany @ Jubez #
5.9 Weisbaden, Germany @ Schalctof #
5.10 Bochum, Germany @ BHF Langendreer #
5.11 Hamburg, Germany @ Hafenklang #
5.12 Copenhagen, Denmark @ Loppen #
5.13 Aarhus, Denmark @ Voxhall #
5.14 Malmo, Sweden @ Debaser Malmo #
5.15 Warsaw, Poland @ Basen Artystyyczny # *
5.16 Poznan, Poland @ Pod Minoga # *
5.17 Krakow, Poland @ Lodz Kaliska # *
5.18 Prague, Czech Republic @ Chapeau Rouge #
5.19 Vienna, Austria @ Chelsea #
5.20 Wurzburg, Germany @ Cafe Cairo #
5.21 Leipzig, Germany @ Wave Gothik Theatre
5.22 Athens, Greece @An Club

** = with Arms and Sleepers
^ = with Red Sparowes
# = with Constants
* = with Ef

Poster design for Caspian & Arms And Sleepers North American Tour - Kris Johnsen 2010

 

The Portland Phoenix Best Of Poll

I’ve been nominated for The Portland Phoenix’s Best Of Poll 2009 for Best Visual Artist. This is pretty awesome and definetly a shock. Please help me out and take a few seconds to vote for myself as well as all of your other favorite Portland things. Including Hillytown.com for best blog.

 

Dead of Winter and Stand With Haiti process shots

This month’s posters are for Dead of Winter and Stand With Haiti. Dead of Winter is a 3 color screen print designed and printed by Kris Johnsen. Stand With Haiti was designed by Sean Wilkinson and is a 2 color screen print, also printed by Kris Johnsen.

Here’s some process shots of the Dean of Winter poster being created.
More pictures after the jump!

 

Haiti Benefit poster

Recently printed this poster for SPACE Gallery’s Haiti benefit show featuring Phantom Buffalo and Darien Brahms. Poster design by Sean Wilkinson.
More pictures of this soon

 

John Nolan (of Straylight Run) poster for SPACE Gallery

A little late but here is the poster I designed and screen printed for the SPACE Gallery show, John Nolan of Straylight Run, Ocean is Theory, Pinsky & Gabriel the Marine. I also made a few of these without text, but the poster was built to have the text on it.
This show was really great and a pretty big deal for me, I use to go see John Nolan in his many other bands when I was alot younger so it was alot of fun to design this poster for the show.

Poster for John Nolan at SPACE Gallery - Kris Johnsen 2010

 

Dead Of Winter Poster for SPACE Gallery

Just finished up this piece for Dead Of Winter at SPACE Gallery. Will be a 3 color screen print on white paper and is 12”-18”. More pictures soon of process.

 

Portland Press Herald article

Recently myself along with Leif Sherman Curtis, Zachary Howard and Reuben J. Little were featured in the Portland Press Harald. <(Click there to read the whole article.)The article was about the film American Artifact which will be showing at SPACE Gallery this Thursday. We are all showing our work before and after the showing of the movie.

 

American Artifact Movie at SPACE Gallery

January 7th SPACE Gallery will be showing American Artifact, before the showing of the movie myself, Reuben Little, Zachary Howard & Leif Sherman Curtis will be displaying prints for the public to view. This movie seems really incredible and gets you inside the studios and minds of many great poster artists. Going to be such a fun night!

 

Picnic Holiday Sale

Next month, myself at Emblem Studio will be at this years Picnic Holiday Sale along with Bryan Bruchman of Hillytown.com, Come say hi and pick up some new prints, posters, pins and much more!

 

Old Canes videos

Really into bands who take the time to make their record special, which to me includes taking the time to think about the packaging and sometimes even hand stamping, printing, drawing or wrapping each cd. This is a video from Old Canes, a band made up of some member of The Appleseed Cast, Minus Story, 4th of July & Boy’s Life. It shows them hand stamping and packaging their albums.