Dave Murray’s Toronto Stamp Prints

March 24, 2021Art Prints, Print Department
Dave Murray’s Toronto Stamp Prints

Dave Murray known for his word cloud map prints has a new screenprint series called neighbourhood stamps. These prints highlight neighbourhoods, buildings, and other landmarks around Toronto.

His collection includes Baldwin Steps, Scarborough Bluffs, Parkdale, Toronto Island, University of Toronto, Roncesvalles, Liberty Village, Riverdale Park, Little Jamaica, Sunnyside Pavilion, Ashbridges Bay Pumping Station, RC Harris Water Treatment Plant, Guild Park and Gardens, The Annex, Kensington Market and Trinity Bellwoods park.

Screen prints measure 12″x12″ square and are 1 colour on FSC white coverstock.

Type Heavy Prints

March 3, 2021Art Prints, Print Department
Type Heavy Prints

These humorous, I mean serious prints by Danny Moore, otherwise known as Type Heavy. Are new to the shop. Danny, originally moved from the UK to Calgary and now lives here in Toronto. We recently printed 4 of his prints. All prints are 1 colour on white card stock.

Zoca Studio Coordinates Poster Series

February 1, 2021Art Prints, Print Department
Zoca Studio Coordinates Poster Series

The Coordinates Poster Series is a modern, typographic and minimalist design project that features the coordinates of five specific cities (Chicago, New York City, Toronto, San Francisco and Vancouver). This project was created to offer a unique keep sake and way to support the city that you love or happen to live in. Hopefully this is an on-going series offering more cities in the future.

The posters are 18″ x 24″. Screen printed by Kid Icarus on a Natural Cover Stock.

Zoca is located in Toronto, you can see more of his work here; http://zoca.ca/

Don Jon

October 29, 2020Art Prints, Print Department
Don Jon

Don Jon is a Toronto based artist with over half a dozen screen prints created with us. The cover print was made for Amplifier to help promote mental health, well-being, and social change work during the COVID-19 pandemic. The print is called Have Hope and two more designs are available (Hope I & Hope II) for crucial research and preparedness for this disease.

Don Jon also has done some great portraits which include Eddie Vedder (print titled Jeremy), Michael Jordon (print titled The Last Dance) and Kobe Bryant (print titled Dear Basketball).

You can see more of his work here: https://www.donxjon.com/

Polaris 2020

October 20, 2020Print Department

The Polaris Music Prize is a not-for-profit organization that annually honours and rewards artists who produce Canadian music albums of distinction. A select panel of music critics judge and award the Prize without regard to musical genre or commercial popularity.

To see all the past winners you can visit the Polaris official website here; https://polarismusicprize.ca/

This year Backxwash won the 2020 Polaris Music Prize for the album ‘God has nothing to do with this leave him out of it’. Congratulations to Backxwash, all the nominated albums and the selected illustrators!

You can buy the top 10 shortlist nominee Posters, each designed by different artists, at the shop.

Shower by Fucci

October 3, 2020Art Prints, Print Department
Shower by Fucci

We have been busy printing some full coverage Fucci prints!

The print titled “Shower” (23″ x 33″) is a 6 colour Screen print on 100lb acid free FSC certified white cover stock. Can you tell how that was done?

We also printed this “Untitled Nude”. Shop proofs available online or at Kid Icarus. Ask for them when you come in!

“Untitled Nude”

New Bellwoods prints

July 24, 2020Print Department
New Bellwoods prints

New posters for Bellwoods Brewery.  A few more Bellwoods craft beer posters to add to the collection. A new Cat Lady!, an updated Jutsu, and more Bell Weiser. A limited number of prints will be available for purchase at Kid Icarus. Posters designed by Doublenaut.

See Bellwoods collection

Bellwoods Brewery Posters

July 9, 2020Print Department
Bellwoods Brewery Posters

New posters for Bellwoods Brewery.  Four more Bellwoods craft beer posters have been added to our shop. Roman Candle, Jelly King, Witchshark and The Red bell. A limited number of prints will be available for purchase at Kid Icarus. Posters designed by Doublenaut. Witchshark illustration by Kate Wakely-Mulroney.

See all Bellwoods Posters

Heritage Prize Poster Reveal

April 18, 2020Art Prints for Sale, Band Posters, Poster Prints, Posters, Print Department
Heritage Prize Poster Reveal
Polaris Heritage Prize 2019 - DOA for album Hardcore 81 and The Oscar Peterson Trio for the album Night Train

The Polaris Heritage Prize for 2019 was announced on Thursday April 16th. 2 albums were recognized this year; D.O.A. for the album Hardcore 81, and The Oscar Peterson Trio for the album Night Train.

These screen printed posters were hand printed by us and designed by Paddy Duddy and Tom Froese. More information on the Polaris website.

These are limited edition prints! We only have a few prints available at the shop. If we are sold out please check out the Polaris website here to purchase.