We are gearing up for a big show next January and are already gitty developing ideas and of course working on paintings. Always be painting! This all is a good mess to be in… what you see are s...
Today we start our broadsides printing for the Poetry Foundation, edition 200. We are screen printing 6-colors on the pre-printed 1-color offset. A good example how an identity color can be incorpora...
Starting from the back catalog of Thrill Jockey, we distilled “the visual legacy” of it into bleached impressions. This is the second color that went down. We have 3-4 more to go. Printin...
1 color into this new poster/print for Thrill Jockey’s 20th anniversary, it will be available on their site so stay tuned a) for launch of sale – because our runs are low and we don’...
While this weekend is a long holiday weekend, we are finally catching up with diving into the ideas for this up and coming print for Thrill Jockey‘s 20th anniversary. What you see here is a sec...
A big part of our practise is creating and finding new imagery. It’s crucial that we put away time for this – not only to find new solutions or digest current pop currencies via paint bru...
We are in the process of developing some broadsides for the Poetry Foundation’s Pegasus Awards. It’s quite an event and an important cultural ceremony. These poets have a life time of wor...
This last weekend we were shooting with talent, Gus Gavino for our up and coming Kickstarter project, Warp and Weft: Poster Construction by Sonnenzimmer. This will actually – hopefully be enter...
We are off to a video shoot with the talented Gus Gavino. We are looking forward to a green screen day and using our props to animate some of our posters… you will find out more about this soon...
We get asked quite often to be in posters shows. It’s sort of the nature of the game. To be honest, it can get old if it’s half-boiled. What some folks don’t understand is that it t...
Somehow it’s already Friday again. Even with deadlines looming, we somehow managed to move our office into the front of the studio and get the back office prepped for our new studio mate, Jonat...
Today’s a bit of a sad day at Sonnenzimmer. Our studio mate, Veronica, moved out. We’ve had a good two years together at the studio. Everyone grows up and moves on and goes to bigger and ...
This year marks the 10th anniversary of Adventures of Modern Music. We’ve been so fortunate to work with the Empty Bottle in the last years to create posters and identities for each festivals. ...
In the past we’ve done some amazing book projects with Green Lantern Press. Why amazing? Well, see their catalog and judge for yourself. This newest title features Matthew Goulish’s essay...
We are trying out a few water color techniques in preparation for the upcoming album cover project for Sub Pop Records. These colorful grids could potentially end up as a type treatment or image elem...
We are coming out of a hectic few weeks, so it’s really nice to have a few extra minutes to try out random ideas. Seen here are some material experiments that will most likely be using for an a...
While we are working on some presentations, an album cover and our book project, we have print jobs in the line. This job was a three color screen print, one color offset for some invites we did for ...
The work in this book documents a slice of contemporary art practice, through the lens of four working artists. In each of their work, minimalism, formal exploration and the legacy of pop art are tac...
Production for these shirts began immediately after wrapping up the Berg Bild art print series, Schall, Laub, Il Fuorn, for Ghostly International. These designs were built using digital and analog re...
We just got back the offset verso printed invites that we will be printing on for an event at the Poetry Foundation. We are working together with Lowitz & Sons on this project. And we can’t...
We are a bit tired, but tired with a smile. It’s been a bit of a long journey for this release to happen—Free Jazz Bitmaps Vol. 1. But when has it not been a journey to put something out there?...
We just set up our show at saki and we are excited for the opening this coming Friday, May 4, 6-9pm. What you see here is a program zine in the making. Maybe we’ll have some more copies, maybe ...
What could we possibly say about Kraftwerk that hasn’t already been said? These guys seriously laid the ground work for electronic music as we know it today. Their image and sound is ubiquitous...
We are huge huge fans of Richard D. James music. So, when opportunity arose to produce a poster for his most famous moniker, Aphex Twin, we were a little intimidated. Honestly, it was really hard to ...
Edward Sharpe and The Magnetic Zeros are a band of folky future travelers who have descended to our planet to heal us by song. The massive group writes color music filled with an unmistakable joy and...
The thing about our studio is that, over the thumb, 3/4 of all projects are self initiated. When we have students come by or other designers inquire about how we do it, it’s basically that very...
Chicago is an amazing place for organizations. It’s a barometer to show how deep the city’s cultural and economical legacy has outlasted trends and forecasts. From a printing point, there...
These graphic notations are a collaboration with Chicago Improvisors (Jason Stein, Mike Reed, Jason Adasiewicz, Jason Roebke, Keefe Jackson) in context with the Free Jazz Bitmaps Vol. 1 LP release an...
This came yesterday off the press. Today is a whole new day with the 2nd poster in the making for our NY gig for this band. We have been pumped with straddling some more narrative ideas for this gig....
Yes, we are about to print a good mid-size print run, which for us means around 375. What you see here is the first color of two posters we are doing for Edward Sharpe and The Magnetic Zeros. We are ...
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