Process & Production - poster research & inspiration

Before our peer crit i was in the process of picking out some examples of screen printed posters to try and help me think of a way of simplifying my current author imagery, and possibly get some ideas on other interesting printing effects using just a few colours. I found a bunch of great looking printed posters in these two poster books, which got me really thinking about my options and print possibilities. Works by Dan McCarthy, Dan Stiles, Travis Bone, Jay Vollmar, Strawberryluna, Tara McPherson, Thomas Scott, Zeloot in particular came to my attention.

               

Theres always a danger that after finding all this inspirational print design work i'll just end up thinking about things too much and i'll try to rethink my entire working process. Some of these designs are so simple but striking, a big part of me wants to just make big shapes in well though out colours & compositions - but the pedant & anal retentiveness in me soon takes over.