When thinking about moving back East (far in the future), I always end up with three or four towns as my finalists, and one of those towns is Austin. It’s got decent skate, art, and music communities, and, barring the overflow of SXSW every year, it maintains a nice, small town vibe. One of the things that most people probably overlook, but is pretty significant to me, is that Austin also has a really strong design community. In fact, it’s almost eerily solid on design in a way that even major cities can’t compete with. All they need now is for Jason Munn from The Small Stakes to relocate there, and that’s pretty much got the whole poster design market sewn up for Austin. Further cementing their dominance in this design field is Justin David Cox whose work is simple, clean and clever; everything that I want to see from a poster. Hell, it’s everything I want to see from a website. And, on top of that, he’s a helluva photographer. I’ve got to quit finding this kind of inspiration, otherwise “far in the future” is going to become “randomly in the middle of the night very soon”. Anyone got a couch in Austin I can crash on?
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Justin | 02-Apr-09 at 12:17 pm | Permalink
come on down. this town is full of couch vacancies. also, thanks for the link and write up
matt | 02-Apr-09 at 2:08 pm | Permalink
Lovely typography. Thanks, Brad. More stuff to buy.
Rex Adventure | 03-Apr-09 at 3:08 pm | Permalink
Meet me in Austin in the next 2 years. I am tryng to pick the winner between there and Phoenix. I need warm weather again. The cold depresses me terribly.
francine | 06-Apr-09 at 10:59 pm | Permalink
as a current resident of phx and soon to be moving home to tx, i can recommend both atown and phx.
Patrick | 15-Apr-09 at 7:05 pm | Permalink
not from Austin, but really diggin this poster, and the decemberists definitely deserve an awesome poster