…and that’s a wrap
~ 23 December 2008 ~
As of this writing, there are just three of the 150 letterpress posters remaining. I’m honestly more than a little stunned by the interest from many of you in my work. Thank you. To have sold out in just over a week is pretty humbling. I’ve enjoyed shipping posters to various countries around the globe — Japan, Norway, Denmark, Sweden, Netherlands, United Kingdom, Italy — in addition to many in the U.S. and Canada. Signed and unsigned copies sold almost dead even, about 75 each.
Should I be willing to submit myself to another tortuous (though pleasurable) round of type-character designing, which edifice would you recommend be represented next? Anything around the globe is game, though preferably something of a different genre, i.e. not a temple.
Additionally, if you’ve received yours, I’d love to hear your feedback. Thank you again!
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The Hungarian Parliament building: http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/2008/12/2008_the_year_in_photographs_p.html#photo37
Jaw dropping work, Cameron. I love these letterpress designs and pretty much everything you design.
How about the Golden Gate Bridge or the Eiffel Tower? Could be fun.
Sydney Opera House?
Had you asked for another temple, I would have requested Laie, Hawaii - not for its architecture, necessarily, but so I could buy one for my grandparents, who were married there. :-)
Perhaps Big Ben would be an intriguing next choice? The Space Needle? Perhaps a Buddhist temple or the Kaminarimon Gate in Asakusa, Japan?
I’m sure someone else will come up with much better ideas than mine… Looking forward to seeing what everyone else thinks.
I always thought I had a rather prestigious profile. I don’t if anyone other then my mother, and my wife would pay for that art though… ;) Along the lines of the Sydeny Opera House, the Walt Disney Concert Hall is a beautiful building. I do like Jason’s idea for the Church Office Building though…
I’ll be both boring and selfish and request something closer to home:
The Quadracci Pavilion (designed by Santiago Calatrava) would be tough, but could end up looking phenomenal from the right angle. www.galinsky.com / /www.mam.org
Looking again, maybe its impossible with type (did that taunt you?)
Taj Mahal? Although I like the idea of more cathedrals…
An obscure suggestion, but one I would love to see - the Water Tower in Tilehurst near Reading, England:
The white house for inauguration day?
The Statue of Liberty would be a fun challenge!
Seconding more cathedrals. St. Basil’s would be fun.. or at least it’d be fun for US to look at! :-)
I’d say the Notre Dame or Eiffel Tower.
Or even London Bridge & Big Ben.
Can’t wait to see!
Guggenheim museum.
How about something that would lend itself well to non-latin characters? Taj Mahal or St. Petersburg Basilica or such.
After living in Brooklyn for a couple years, I’d love to see the Brooklyn Bridge. Seems like it’d lend itself to some really interesting characters and shapes. Could be fun to play with dimension and perspective.
I got my poster yesterday, and it’s beautiful. Thank you for your time and attention to detail. I’m an art director and after purchasing mine, three others from our studio quickly purchased one as well.
Well done, keep it up.
Thank you cameron for this beautiful piece. Im having it framed as i type. it will be ready after christmas. we are very excited about it. Its a magical expereance for me to combine three of my passions into one piece of art: My Religion, a symbol of my Marriage, and a love of type.
For your next piece i would suggest something that is not so specific as one edifice… possibly a skyline? or maybe a scene from a book, ive been re reading the enders game series .. would it be crazy to ask for a starship? or how about a scene of the nina, pinta, and santamaria arriving in the new world? Or the signing of the declaration?
If those are to location specific and would alienate your international customers, how depicting the planet earth, or a mountian range?
Im sure what ever you choose it will be wonderful.
Congratulations, Cameron.
Would love to see something like the V&A or the British Museuem.
Here’s to a great Christmas, and to new and exquisite posters in the new year.
How about the Guggenheim Museum, Bilbao?
Or a series of city skylines, as others have suggested.
Fantastic posters! I bought one for me and one for a Christmas gift.
All I can say is, if you do more temples, you could make a killing, but I know that probably isn’t your intent.
You should do the Twin Towers if you want to really sell out.
Merry Christmas!
One that you could really have some fun with: Duomo di Milano
I love John Lascurettes’ idea of using non-latin characters on a non-latin building. It’s brilliant and the Taj Mahal would be perfect. Is the Dome of the Rock still a temple?
What about re-rendering an already existing piece of art, like The Great Wave by Katsushika Hokusai using Kanji, Hiragana, and Katakana (too cliche?).
White House has my vote.
I would love to see this done with St. Basil’s Cathedral in Russia.
Or the Sagrada Familia in Spain.
St. Basil’s Cathedral in Russia sounds like a really complicated task… How about twin towers?
I absolutely loved the piece, but I couldn’t bring myself to purchase it because it was a Mormon temple—not to offend anyone, I’m just not a fan of religion.
I would definitely buy:
-Anything Grecian or Roman
-The Golden Gate Bridge
-A light house
Love your work. How about the Baha’i temple in Wilmette, Il.
I’m just hoping that you do another run of the Salt Lake temple so I can buy one…other than that I can’t wait to see what you do next
My vote is for a bridge (golden gate, brooklyn, or london), the eiffel tower, or the statue of liberty.
A bridge is a good idea, otherwise..the Colosseum in Rome?
My vote would be for the Hungarian Parliament building or the Tower Bridge in London.
I’m surprised no one else has suggested it but how about the stunning Gaudi’s La Sagrada Familia in Barcelona?
I’m with Anna (#30)—I’ve been “off” the internet the past few weeks due to the holidays, a conference, and a family emergency, and I am so incredibly disappointed to have missed this that I’m actually commenting for the first time. Please do another run—I’ll grab two (at least)!
The visual texture seems like it would lend itself well to an interior section of the Alhambra. Other ideas: the Parthenon, the Globe, a section of the Forbidden City or Machu Pichu, or FLW’s Fallingwater.
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I’d love for you to do the Dallas Skyline, or that really cool museum in Sydney. Great work on that last poster, quite beautiful really.