Biology lecture "gig posters"

Posted by David Pescovitz, January 21, 2009 9:26 AM | permalink

The UNC Chapel Hill Biology Department creates sharp "concert posters" for their distinguished lecture series. Each poster is 9" x 22" and hand screenprinted by The Merch, a Chapel Hill design group "influenced by skateboard culture, underground music, and contemporary design." Great idea, UNC!
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#1 posted by pauldrye , January 21, 2009 9:39 AM

"Signaling Pathways in Early Mouse Development" sounds like a Stereolab album to me.

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#2 posted by slywy , January 21, 2009 9:42 AM

Interestingly retro.

Are lectures really distinguished? Or are lecturers?

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#3 posted by Takuan , January 21, 2009 9:46 AM

oooh! do one this style!
http://monkeyink.com/ink/blog/images/cmyk-trimmed.jpg

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#4 posted by buddy66 , January 21, 2009 10:10 AM

Nice work, shredders.

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#5 posted by James David , January 21, 2009 10:36 AM

Gorgeous stuff... such cool work out of UNC! The Counter-Cartographies Collective comes to mind...

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#6 posted by dielucky , January 21, 2009 10:37 AM

This is great!

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#7 posted by usonia , January 21, 2009 10:38 AM

Ooooh magnificent! That is, for better or worse, my approach to newspaper ad design - which is regarded by the general public as somewhere near the bottom of the barrel of visual stimulae. I often get shot down by small-town advertisers who'd rather see their Word97 masterpiece in print, but when I win, I win.

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#8 posted by megaptera69 , January 21, 2009 10:52 AM

Any chance of picking some of these up someplace? I checked The Merch site but could not find any way to purchase.

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#9 posted by Anonymous , January 21, 2009 8:13 PM

That's pretty awesome. I really like the look of these.

We've been doing this in architectural academia for a long, long time.

It's sort of a point of pride to have a good lecture series poster - and there are even "competitions."

http://www.archinect.com/lectureposters/

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#10 posted by David Pescovitz , January 21, 2009 8:42 PM

Great link, Anonymous @#9. Thanks for that. Some beautiful work there.