It’s been a while since I’ve posted a We’ve Been Framed, but I’m going to attempt to make this a recurring feature on the blog. We get a lot of people asking how they should frame their prints, so maybe seeing how others go about it will spark up some inspiration. Today, we are going to take a look at my Deadman poster I framed up for the shop. Stop in and check it out. I think it came out looking great.

I was worried about the letterpress accents not showing up, but they look great under the glass. I also love how the double matting compliments the giclee. This is just the first in the posters we’ll start displaying in the store.

If you’d like us to show off your framed Mondo posters, send me your pictures at Justin@MondoTees.com. Let’s make this happen!

-Justin

Father: Encounter On Dagobah marks the third poster in our officially licensed STAR WARS series.

Poster by Tomer Hanuka. 17″x25″ screen print. Hand numbered. Printed by D&L Screen Printing. Edition of 350. Click HERE to buy.

This marks the second time we’ve worked with Tomer Hanuka on a screen printed poster and we couldn’t be happier. Tomer had a few words about his submission to the series:

“The central idea going into this image was depicting planet Dagobah itself as a portrait of Luke’s subconscious in it’s most interesting and unformed phase. In a nightmarish sequence, Luke runs into the mist where he thinks he saw Vader. Luke finds him and a lightsaber duel ends with Vader’s decapitation . The mask cracks open on the severed head, exposing the frozen face of a dead Luke Skywalker. The suggestion here is that somewhere within Luke’s psyche there is a potential for ultimate evil. Luke’s greatest challenge isn’t the Galactic Empire and it’s endless, faceless troopers, but the magnetism of the dark side; the seductive idea of choosing his own potential for power over everything else.

-Justin

We are proud to announce the second entry into our new STAR TREK poster series. While our first entry featured one of the most charismatic and evil villains to ever grace the screen, this release features one of the cutest pests in the universe. No, not Cyrano Jones. We’re talking THE TROUBLE WITH TRIBBLES!

Poster by Olly Moss. 18″x24″ screen print. Hand numbered. Printed by D&L Screen Printing. Edition of 350. Click HERE to buy.

Poster by Olly Moss. 18″x24″ screen print. Hand numbered. Printed by D&L Screen Printing. Edition of 190. Click HERE to buy.

Not only are we releasing these posters online, but we will also have a release party starting at 5pm tonight at the Mondo shop at 1120 S. Lamar Blvd. with special quadrotriticale cookies made by Alamo Drafthouse executive chef John Bullington. Not thinking, I left my pet tribble out and it got into a batch of the cookies so now we have over 500 of these little dudes running around the shop. PLEASE, stop by and take a tribble. We need all of them out of here! Give them a good home!

Questions? Email Store@MondoTees.com for answers.

-Justin

Today, we have a poster for sale for one of our favorite movies of the last decade….MOON!

Poster design by All City Media. Sam Rockwell illustration by Martin Ansin. 24″x36″ screen print w/ metallic inks. Hand numbered. Printed by D&L Screen Printing. Edition of 235. Click HERE to buy.

We are also offering this glow in the dark variant version.

Poster design by All City Media. Sam Rockwell illustration by Martin Ansin. 24″x36″ screen print w/ glow in the dark metallic inks. Hand numbered. Printed by D&L Screen Printing. Edition of 80. Click HERE to buy.
This year at SXSW, I was lucky enough to hang out with David Frost from the design firm, All City Media. If you’re not familiar with All City, check them out by clicking HERE. They have done some amazing work for films such as BAD LIEUTENANT, WALTZ WITH BASHIR, GOMORRAH, THE GIRL WITH THE DRAGON TATTOO, A PROPHET and MAN ON WIRE, among many others. David was one of the judges this year for the SXSW poster design competition and also spoke on a panel called Floating Heads are Dead: Why Traditional Posters Suck. As you can see, their MOON poster is anything but traditional. This is actually an unreleased version that All City made and were gracious enough to let us release.

We had to make one small change to it, though. The image used of Sam Rockwell was a photograph and therefore was not able to be screenprinted, so we asked our good friend and illustrator Martin Ansin to illustrate it. I remember seeing the poster in a theater lobby here in Austin and it making me do a double take. I distinctly remember saying “wow” outloud. With lobby’s full of giant pictures of actor’s faces, it’s great to actually see some design fighting back. We salute All City Media for being one of the leaders in bringing creativity back to poster design.

-Justin

In cased you missed our last release, we are working with Lucasfilm LTD on an official series of screen printed STAR WARS posters. This poster marks the second offering into the series with Dave Kinsey contributing his talents and creating this beautiful image.

“Raider” by Dave Kinsey. 24″x36″ screen print. Hand numbered. Printed by D&L Screen Printing. Edition of 350. Click HERE to buy.

When asked about his memories of STAR WARS, Kinsey said “When I first saw Star Wars as a kid, I remember being intrigued by the Tusken Raider’s mystique and anonymity.”

The Tusken Raiders, like Gonk, have really stayed with us at Mondo over the years; easily one of the most unique characters of the Original Trilogy. Even with very little screen time, the look, mannerisms (riding single file to conceal their numbers) and even the sounds that the Sand People made are classic.  We are proud to make this our second offering in the series.

We will have more STAR WARS offerings soon. To find out when they go on sale, follow us on Twitter.

-Justin