Cast Iron Design Company

Event Poster

Patton asked us to design a poster for his six-night residency at the Irvine. The poster is inspired by Patton's pessimistic (but hilarious) twist on, well, just about everything.

A limited edition, two-color (black and yellow), hand-pulled 12″×16″ screenprint on 100lb, 100% recycled cover stock.

This poster is available for purchase in our general store .

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Tour Poster

We designed and printed a tour poster for the Calexico's 2013 winter US tour. The poster is inspired by "Splitter," a track off of Calexico's latest album, Algiers.

A limited edition, two-color (steel blue, navy) hand-pulled 18″×24″ screenprint on 100lb, 100% PCW recycled cover stock.

This poster is available for purchase in our general store .

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Measure Thrice

You've most likely heard the old adage "Measure twice, cut once." While those are indeed wise words, we've decided to kick it up a notch.

A limited edition, two-color (off-white, teal) hand-pulled 12″×16″ screenprint on 100lb, Poptone Red Hot cover stock.

Available for your motivational needs in our general store.

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Event/Movie Poster

We were commissioned by The Loft Cinema to create a poster for their annual Scream-O-Rama event. We created a fictional product and advertisement for each of the seven movies shown at the twelve hour horror movie extravaganza. Reading through the text is highly recommended.

A limited edition, two-color (black, fire red) hand-pulled 18″×24″ screenprint on 80lb, 100% PCW recycled cover stock.

Available for purchase in our general store.

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Tucson + Bikes

Once again we worked with BICAS to make a screenprinted poster coinciding with their annual art auction. The poster features various illustrations related to Tucson and, of course, bikes. We printed two color variations, each an edition of 50.

A limited edition, three-color hand-pulled 18″×24″ screenprint on 100lb, 100% recycled cover stock.

Available for purchase in our general store.

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Spoke Serpent

We participated in the 2011 VelociPrint Bike Art Show, held at the newly opened Borderlands Brewery in downtown Tucson, Arizona. This print was one of two entries, a four color serpent. This might be a bit braggy, but we've gotta say — we nailed the printing on this one.

A limited edition, four-color (brick-brown, eggplant-brown, warm light grey, dark grey) hand-pulled 18″×24″ screenprint on 80lb, 100% PCW recycled cover stock.

Available for purchase in our general store.

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Bike!Bike!Bike!

This print was the second of our two submissions in the 2011 VelociPrint Bike Art Show, held at the newly opened Borderlands Brewery in downtown Tucson, Arizona. We used an overprint to achieve the third color (the brown).

A limited edition, two-color (transparent red-orange, transparent mint green) hand-pulled 18″×24″ screenprint on 110lb, 100% PCW recycled cover stock.

Available for purchase in our general store.

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Gig Poster

A gig poster created for the last leg of Other Lives' 2011 North American tour.

A limited edition, one-color (tan) hand-pulled 18″×24″ screenprint on 80lb, 50% PCW recycled cover stock.

This poster was available for purchase in our general store but we're all sold out, sorry!

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Gig Poster (Diptych)

We collaborated with designer Ryan Trayte on a set of gig posters (diptych layout shown at right) for Fleet Foxes' Tucson, AZ show at the Rialto on their spring 2011 tour.

Check out our full-on process post and read about the concept behind the poster.

A limited edition, two-color (dark grey, white) hand-pulled 18″×24″ screenprint on 110lb, 100% PCW recycled cover stock.

You can purchase one or both of the prints in our general store.

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Good Design is Felt

An art print experimenting with the use of handmade elements. The print is a photo of the word “felt” cut out of paper and glued onto Richard's hand.

A limited edition, four-color (cyan, magenta, yellow, black) hand-pulled 18″×24″ screenprint on 100lb, 100% recycled stock.

You can purchase a print in our general store.

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Unicorn Poster

We worked with the Bicycle Inter-Community Art & Salvage, or BICAS for short, to create an ongoing series of screeprinted posters. They described the target audience for the posters as hardcore bikers, punks that only wear black and red, and carnivalesque-and-DIY-kind-of-people.

This one is of course for the carnies.

A limited edition, one-color (fire red) hand-pulled 18″×24″ screenprint on 80lb, 100% recycled cover stock.

This poster is for sale in our general store.

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Skull Poster

We worked with the Bicycle Inter-Community Art & Salvage, or BICAS for short, to create an ongoing series of screeprinted posters. They described the target audience for the posters as hardcore bikers, punks that only wear black and red, and carnivalesque-and-DIY-kind-of-people.

This one is of course for the punks.

A limited edition, two-color (blood red, black) hand-pulled 19″×25″ screenprint on 100lb, 100% recycled cover stock.

This poster was for sale in our general store but we sold out.

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Hypnotic Poster

Digital Print

We participated in an exhibition of 26 different posters, each representing a random word from the corresponding letter of the alphabet. Out letter was "H" and our word was "Hypnotic."

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Ghost Town Carnival

A poster advertising the "Ghost Town Carnival" Halloween event put on by the WPA at the historic Hotel Congress in Tucson, Arizona.

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Bat Night 2010

Screenprinted Poster

An estimated 5,000 people attended the Rillito River Project's yearly event, Bat Night, which celebrates the local bat population while raising awareness about the steeply declining water tables that endanger their habitat.

The client requested “dark and mysterious, yet family friendly,” a feeling we created using silhouettes of the indigenous mexican free-tail bats paired with warm typography.

A limited edition, hand-pulled 18″×24″ screenprint on 100% recycled paper.

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Refrigerator Print

Screenprinted Poster

We screenprinted this six-color print hoping it'll get some conversation going about how and what we're eating these days. And if it doesn't, no big deal. At least it looks nice.

A limited edition, hand-pulled 19″×19″ screenprint.

For sale in our general store with three different colors to choose from.

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Promotional Poster

A poster for a fictitious event that would surely dazzle and astound all in attendance. The smell of sweat, steel, and determination would fill the air.

Two-color, hand-pulled 18″×24″ screenprint on kraft paper.

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Supermarket Print

For a majority of human existence, we were hunters and gatherers. In the modern age, we are consumers. Not that the latter is necessarily bad, we're just pointing it out for the sake of discussion.

A limited edition, five-color (cyan, magenta, yellow, black, transparent white) hand-pulled 18″×24″ screenprint on 100lb white cover stock. This print is sold out, be we plan to one day print a second state (variation).
E-mail us if you're interested.

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Print Sale Poster

A poster advertising the Wildcat Print Association's annual holiday print sale.

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Gig Poster

The Undertones are a punk rock/new wave band from Ireland. They formed way back in 1975 and last we checked are still playing music. Incredible.

A limited edition, two-color (brown, olive green, transparent orange), hand-pulled 18″×24″ screenprint on 100% recycled, 100lb stock.

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Gig Poster

A gig poster for the band Little Joy. We think it might have something to do with parallel dimensions.

A limited edition, two-color (black, silver), hand-pulled 18″×24″ screenprint on slate blue stock.

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