Die By The Drop

One of the perks of having a place all to yourself is you get to choose how you want to adorn the empty wall space inside of it. As a teenager and on into my twenties, I'd always managed to fill every negative piece of wallspace exposed in my bedrooms. Yet, I've been living in my current apartment for close to three years, and for some reason I've refrained from ever truly stylizing it. I've accumulated an endless supply of posters, photographs and assorted trinkets and doodads, but have up-til-this-point held back from really investing the time and energy to deck the place out. My bedroom, for example, still has virtually no artwork gracing its interior. When you contrast that with every other place I've lived, it's pretty surprising. Perhaps it's because I don't really want to stay in my current apartment for much longer; or it could also be due to the overwhelming sensation that fills me when considering the editing process needed to narrow down the vast amount of options I've accumulated.

Amongst these options are a couple dozen silkscreened concert posters. A couple of them are up in my office room, while several others are hanging in my kitchen/dining area. All of 'em are starting to feel a little stale as of late, so I've been considering acquiring some new options. I already own a Dead Weather poster (the top one shown below) that's been waiting to be framed and put on display, so I decided to see what else they had in store that might compliment it. Upon doing so, I was struck by how impressive a lot of the designs are. Furthermore, they were all really cohesive despite being created by an array of different artists and studios.

(Designed by Aesthetic Apparatus)

(Designed by Alan Hynes)

(Designed by Jason Early)

(Designed by Todd Slater & Rob Jones)

(Designed by Rob Jones)

(Designed by Rob Jones)

(Designed by Methane Studios)

(Designed by Silent Giants)

Now, whether or not you're a fan of any of Jack White's music, you can't deny his visual consistency. From the red-and-white candy-cane theme that branded the White Stripes, to the all black-with-hints-of-yellow that identifies The Dead Weather, he knows how to strike visually. He's proven this furthermore by hiring brilliant visual artists, like Floria Sigosmondi and Michel Gondry to direct his music videos, graphic designers like Rob Jones and Todd Slater to create concert posters and sleeve designs, and Brandy St. John to handle wardrobe styling for all three of his well-known bands. Simply put, White knows how to project an image and may inadvertently be the best accidental art-director the rock n' roll world has seen since Andy Warhol. He plays guitar, sings and drums like a beast, own a record store and label, and produces music for his own bands and others in his recording studio. Is there anything this man can't do?