Art of the Dead

Web­site for Art of the Dead by Phil Cushway.

The Art of the Dead show­cas­es the vibrant, charis­mat­ic poster art that emerged from the streets of San Fran­cis­co in 1964 and 1966. It traces the cul­tur­al, polit­i­cal, and his­tor­i­cal influ­ences of posters as art back to Japan­ese wood blocks through Bell Époque, on to the Beat­niks, the Free Speech Move­ment, and the Acid Tests. Fea­tur­ing inter­views and pro­files of the key artists, includ­ing Rick Grif­fin, Stan­ley Mouse, Alton Kel­ley, Wes Wil­son, and Vic­tor Moscoso.

The book uses Grate­ful Dead as the vehi­cle to tell the sto­ry of poster art as The Dead were the band that ulti­mate­ly proved to be the most sub­stan­tive and engaged part­ner for the artists and hence fea­tured the best art of any rock ‘n’ roll band ever. The book will fol­low a chrono­log­i­cal evo­lu­tion of the art from the band’s orig­i­na­tion in 1965 through Jer­ry Garcia’s death in 1995.

The book is in full-col­or through­out, fea­tur­ing icon­ic and rare images as well as exten­sive “process” mate­r­i­al, includ­ing sketch­es, orig­i­nal art, blue lines, film, and print­ing plates that show how the art was cre­at­ed. It will also include essays by Greil Mar­cus, Peter Coy­ote, and Vic­to­ria Binder, as well as essays on the ele­ments of the print­ing process from the orig­i­nal art to the final poster.

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Web Design­er, Devel­op­er, Man­ag­er — Octo­ber 2012 to June 2016

• Devel­op, design, launch Word­Press web­site: artofthedead.com
• Cre­ate graph­ic ele­ments with Adobe Photoshop
• Inte­grate Face­book, Twit­ter APIs into site
• Cre­ate pro­mo­tion­al con­tent for social media
• Pro­vide ongo­ing tech­ni­cal support

Web­site launch date: Octo­ber 2012

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Very Spe­cial ART OF THE DEAD Lim­it­ed Print Edi­tions by Stan­ley Mouse Now Avail­able … http://t.co/5Hi0WwlKqf

— Phil Cush­way (@theartofthedead) May 8, 2013