Poster Mountain

 We are thrilled to finally conclude our Black Pirate series! At the end of the last update we were almost finished with airbrushing. The last section that Aaron was going to work on was the ocean. Pictured: This was the last photo from the previous update on Black Pirate.  The ocean is one of the most complicated areas because of all of the different hues of green and blue, fortunately we had a decent reference for this poster. Gabe and Aaron started off by masking for the greener section of the water. I asked Gabe to give me a ballpark estimate about how many masks this poster got. He had to think back over the past two years, but felt that this poster probably had about 50 different masks all told. Pictured: The brown paper protects the rest of the poster from the airbrush over-spray, while Gabe has opened up the green area of the ocean from the acetate covering the rest of the poster that doesn't have brown paper on it. Pictured: Aaron beginning to airbrush

Every once in a while something comes into our studio that is so unique that even we are in awe. A few weeks ago a man walked in with a fragment of a map. The fragment was a corner of a European map that showed Iceland and the Atlantic Ocean. More important was what was on the map which was the handwritten records of 36 bombing missions through France, Holland and Germany as a WWII B-17 pilot. The pilot was Robert Kohler, the client's father, who had kept this map tucked away for almost 70 years. Robert Kohler was a lieutenant in the 351st Bomber group in the US 8th Air Force that was based in Northamptonshire, England and was a pilot in the 511th squadron.   Looking at this map and the photos the client brought in reminded us of many of the propaganda posters that Poster Mountain has worked on over the years. WWII was one of the most prolific periods for American propaganda posters. After the bombing of Pearl Harbor and the US entered the war, many of them were

We have finished the first project in our video blog series! They are on YouTube in 3 separate parts that are roughly 15 minutes each. We also did a shorter, compressed version of all three that is about 10 minutes long, which is the one I have posted here for your edification and delight.  We have also added a new feature (new to us at least) You can now receive email notifications when we update the blog. If I may direct your attention to the right where it says "Follow by Email"  and small box where you can enter your email address and click submit. It will ask you to enter one of those weird number/letter combinations to check you aren't a computer. After that you should receive an email from FeedBurner that will confirm that you want to get email notifications when we post something new. Confirm that and you should be good to go!

Happy New Year Everyone! We hope you had a wonderful holiday season! We are going to start 2013 with an informational post about multi-panel posters such as three-sheets and six-sheets. An interesting (or annoying) thing about poster sizes is that the size name does not have anything to do with the number of panels it's printed on. Thus, a three-sheet is not printed on three pieces of paper. It's just named that way because it's the same size as 3 one-sheet posters vertically stacked next to one another. Isn't that something? A three-sheet is usually made up of two pieces of paper, or "panels." One panel is the size of 2 one-sheets and the other is the size of 1 one-sheet. A six-sheet is the size of 6 one-sheets, HOWEVER, and here's the kicker, it's printed on four panels. That is, each panel in a six sheet is the size of 2 one-sheets. Interesting thing numero dos is that these are not universal rules. Sometimes a three-sheet really is printed