John Solimine

July 12, 2007

John Solimine

DBA Spike Press

Printing since 2001

Specialties Concert posters

Collaborators “I always rely on advice from friends when designing, and until recently, I also printed everything myself, but I have used both Screwball and Delicious to print some of my last few jobs for me. I still plan to print smaller runs but I’ll leave the bigger jobs to those guys.”

Describe your style. “A frothy brew of children’s-book illustration from the 50s, 60s, and 70s, UPA cartoons, and Marvel comics.”

Any local screen printers you admire? “Delicious Design League, Crosshair, everyone at the Bird Machine, Screwball—all doing great work and all nice folks to boot.”

Clients “Metro, Schubas, MP Shows, Lumpen Times, GLOW magazine (it’s the Canadian version of Allure magazine here, but at first I thought it was for Gorgeous Ladies of Wrestling), Leo Burnett, Draft FCB, the National.”

Gallery shows Gold Star, Country Club Chicago, the Goodfoot in Portland, Art Center of South Florida Gallery, ArtsPlace in Lexington, Kentucky

Where to buy His Web site

Prices Posters run $15-$25.

On the Web spikepress.com

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