Get Peaced at EAST

We’re super pumped up about this year’s EAST. We’ve not only spruced up our retail area to accomodate room for two pop-up shops, but we’ll have a print exhibition from a handful of Austin artists hanging as well. Look for artwork from Rich Cali, Anna Gogusey, Jessica Clark, Caitlin Alexander, Mason McFee and Abi Daniel.

We hope to see you, come through, have a beer and relax at Bearded Lady.

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(Above) Prints by Rich Cali and Anna Gogusey.

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(Above) Totes by Caitlin Alexander.

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Traveller Denim

Hey folks, check out Traveller Denim. A fine new Austin company helmed by Selenia Rios and Erik Untersee producing high quality, handmade, bespoke jeans.

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Traveller charmed us into printing discharge ink for their black shirts (shirt design by Land), which we don’t often do for clients. After a few conversations, we realized that the variable nature of the resulting prints would be something that they valued (discharge prints can vary throughout the run). Also, the earthy, natural-cotton-color, and the finish of the print (you can’t feel it, at. all.), are right up their alley. Click through to see the process, as well as a few more shots of the shop rags we printed for them.

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Stereoscopic

Cross your eyes, focus, and a third image forms in the middle. Excellent.
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Octopus Project has just released their new album, “Fever Forms”, and we printed up some treats for their release and tour. They created some rad 3-D paraphernalia (Viemaster!) as part of their Superdeluxe preorder pack. That, in turn, led to this crisp and trippy poster.
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We also printed these two shirts, left designed by band members, right designed by Peelander Yellow (who also recently did a bunch of design work for Paul Qui’s new restaurant).
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And we didn’t have a lick to do with the printing for this record, but it’s way too pretty not to post. Translucent gold vinyl, matte-finish cover with metallic gold accents. Nice. Just super nice.

Click through to see the video for “Sharpteeth”, their second single from “Fever Forms”, and listings for the rest of their tour.

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Pollo Asado Al Carbon…

…it’s delicious. And available all over Austin at various drive-throughs. It’s one of our favorite fast foods. Of course, you don’t have any idea what kind of frankenchicken is used to make it, so if you’re trying to be a responsible meat eater, not the best option. But now there’s a little joint called Fresa’s on Lamar that serves up classic pollo asado al carbon, using Peeler Farms chicken to do it, so now you can have a chicken and eat your..conscience…too….
Anyway…
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The design work for Fresa’s was done by crack design group Arts & Recreation, a lot (all?) of it by the super talented Renee Fernandez. Her work on the menu signage and the main little chicken logo is impressive. We recently pressed some hats for them, using the embroidered patches they had made of the logo.
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It’s a great little patch, and the hats look good. The latest thing Arts & Rec has been doing for Fresa’s was design work for their new ice cream cart, which is apparently in service and can be found on South Congress. Summer. Ice cream. Good.
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New Home

Hey, we renovated, y’all!

After cruising through the last couple years with pretty much just a splash page and a blogspot, we finally decided to grow up and build an actual website. So! Here you have it. Poke around, check out the work galleries, and swing back often – we’ll be adding buyable items as time goes on, and posting about projects that we’re stoked on. Recent highlights are the art prints we’ve done with Mason McFee and Rich Cali. Please check them out, they’re both talented dudes and we’re very happy with the prints. Plus, they’re both available for sale!

We’re riding on a renewed commitment to producing art prints with the many talented people around us, and plan to release new editions regularly going forward. Sign up for our newsletter to hear first when we release a new print or are going to have an event at the shop.

Many many many massive thanks to Mason McFee for working with us to build this site. You are a champ, sir.

2013 Addy Awards

Between a poster we printed for SXSW 2012 and this video campaign that was shot on location at our shop last fall, Bearded Lady had a little hand in the Addy Awards this year.
Playing host to a film crew was fun and bizarre. A slew of folks from Hack Studios whirled through our shop with intense focus and a crapload of camera equipment. This Metro Rapid poster job and accompanying video served as a swan song for our trusty old Dorn press, Bearded Lady’s main machine for several years. She served us long and well, and performed beautifully for the film crew. Shortly after this was shot, we received our Saturn M&R which we now use for all of our automatic flat printing (we still do quite a bit of printing by hand). The Dorn has since found a new home with a neighboring print shop. Print on, Dorn…
Congrats to Sherry Matthews Advocacy Marketing on their gold ADDY for the MetroRapid “Screen ATX” campaign, and same to the Ampersand Agency for their work for KUT, which includes this bloody mary piece printed by yours truly.
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Bearded Lady + Helm Boots

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Bearded Lady just recently had the surreal and flattering experiencing of playing host/muse to Helm Boots for the debut of their spring line. Josh was a boot model for a day, and Abi worked up a series of watercolor portraits of their new boots, as well as a limited edition poster that we just printed here at the shop. Helm is having an event in their new shopfront this evening, and will be open all through SXSW. Go and see them if you like quality boots and good-smelling leather.

Cheers folks, have a good SXSW.

Summer Flats

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“Heading for the Hills”, a Majestic Shit print – new series – Bearded Lady + Abi Daniel. Three color on 120 lb Rag, Natural White.

Available at Parts & Labour

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Wrath of Khan poster designed by We Buy Your Kids, four color on Speckletone TrueWhite.

For Alamo Drafthouse and Mondo Tees.

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Athfest poster by The Adsmith

Robots by Mike Groves

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More buddies! Brown Whornet’s playing at the ND in Austin on Saturday.

Designed in-house.

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Baby Teeth (some buddies up in Chicago) are playing their farewell show.

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