"The Dungeon Masters" 9 Sep 2008 at 12:42pm
Spur's David Plunkert creates movie poster for "The Dungeon Masters"
David Plunkert designed and illustrated the poster for
the Antidote Films Documentary "The Dungeon Masters"
which debuted as an official selection at the 2008 Toronto Film Festival.
Directed by Keven McAlester "The Dungeon Masters" is an exploration of the
subculture of Dungeon and Dragons, which for over 30 years has offered
gamers the chance to escape their mundane lives and participate in a world
they might otherwise not experience. Popularity and power are based on
creativity and imagination rather than social status or wealth, and success
is based not on who you know but on what you do.
Plunkert has designed numerous award-winning posters for live theatre and
independent film productions.
ICON 5 10 Jul 2008 at 3:29pm
SPUR Announces Sponsorship
Spur Design is pleased to announce its partner level sponsorship of ICON5, the illustration conference to be held in New York City in July 2008. Little ole Spur joins other partner level sponsors such as Adobe, theispot, MICA and Xerox in supporting the most anticipated illustration conference yet. As a part of our support, we are producing the poster, program and mini-schedule. If you've seen the poster, you can imagine how excited we were to see Edel Rodriguez's great illustrations arrive in our studio.
The program will include even more art by a talented group of illustrators including Whitney Sherman, James Sturm, James Yang, Martha Rich and Luba Lukova.
We hope to see you at the conference!
WELCOME JESS 10 Jul 2008 at 3:17pm
Our New Designer, Happy Day!We are thrilled to introduce Spur's newest employee, Jess Neil. Following her internship with us this spring, we were delighted that she agreed to stay full time. Jess recently graduated from Maryland Institute College of Art with honors. She has experience in print and web design, as well as illustration.
ONE MARYLAND ONE BOOK 10 Jul 2008 at 3:14pm
Spur Helps Launch Maryland's New Statewide Reading Program
Saturday, June 14, we welcomed the launch of the statewide reading program One Maryland One Book. The goal is to get all of Maryland reading and talking about this year's book, A Hope in the Unseen: An American Odyssey form the Inner City to the Ivy League, by Ron Suskind. We've been busy designing and illustrating the teacher's guide, reader's guide, poster, logo, bookmarks, stickers, and even the seven foot banners for the campaign.
Dave signed posters to help kick off the year long campaign at the Enoch Pratt library. Maryland's first lady, Katie O'Malley hosted the event.
THEATRE PROJECT POSTERS IN C.A. 10 Jul 2008 at 3:08pm
But wouldn't these make good book covers too?
We love working on Theatre Project every year. Dave has designed and illustrated posters for them for the past six years and is looking forward to many more seasons.
The latest round just got into the Communication Arts Illustration as a series, on newstands now.
LEISURAMA 10 Jul 2008 at 2:51pm
Paul Sahre's New Book
We were so happy to see our friend Paul Sahre's latest book Leisurama Now: The Beach House for Everyone. Michael Northrup (a.k.a. Strobes) dropped by the studio to let us take a peek. Strobes did much of the photography throughout the book. It was so beautiful we had to order one for our bookshelf right away.
IMAGINATION STAGE 8 Jul 2008 at 3:05pm
Busytown, Heidi and more
Over the last few years, Joyce has created dozens of illustrations for Imagination Stage, the leading children's theatre in the Washington, DC metro area. Here's a sneak peek of a few new illustrations for the 2008-09 season which includes, Busytown by Richard Scary, and the classic Heidi.
