Bearded Lady has had the pleasure to work with designer/illustrator Mishka Westell quite a bit recently. She reliably produces vibrant, organic, hand-drawn poster designs that are always a pleasure to print. This nutty graphic is courtesy of her seventeen-year-old self, a drawing from high school that she worked back into for this design for The Sonics. Three color screen print on manila tag.

Mishka will have a booth this year at the Flatstock Poster Show March 13-15. You might have caught her poster design for Spiritualized gracing the cover of the Gig Posters’ 2014 calendar cover. She’s also responsible for a really solid series of Roky Erickson prints. This one we printed in two color-ways – a vibrating combo of bright red and highly saturated blue that’s practically a signature of hers, and the other a subtle, subdued pearlescent blue and black.

Detail…

Sonics, Winter In The Blood.

Patty Griffin: red and metallic gold on manila tag.

And then a different collage-based approach she sometimes uses on this Patty Griffin poster – 3-color on manila tag. Harks back to some of the (excellent) design work she did surrounding Heartless Bastards’ Arrow release. Check out the rest of her work on her website!