YOU MIGHT OWN A PIECE OF ART HISTORY AND DON'T KNOW IT . . .
You've seen them stapled on telephone poles, taped on the side of buildings, bus stops even in club windows. If you have one laying around the house then frame it because you own a piece of art history.
I'm talking about Nashville's very own
HATCH SHOW PRINT.
Their look is as distinctive as it gets. Hatch Show Print, established in 1879, feature vibrant, colorful advertisements unlike any other and they've been doing it for over 130 years.
Floor-to-ceiling shelves are filled with some 10,000 basswood and maple wood blocks and thousands of photo plates, wood and metal type fonts. These are used to create a design within the dimensions of a particular poster size. Artists literally lay out the blocks and plates backwards, using a mirror to help avoid misspellings, on specially sized trays.
Once a design is laid out, artists place the trays into the press, roll the blocks and plates with colored ink and hand-crank a roll of paper over the design.
Hatch's clients varied from performers like Bob Dylan, Bruce Springsteen, B.B. King, Beastie Boys and most everyone in Country music past and present. They include advertisement for companies like Nike, Taylor Guitars and Jack Daniels. Yes . . . they even do work for the average JOE!
My print hanging in my studio . . .
CHECK
HATCH SHOW PRINT OUT . . .
https://www.facebook.com/hatchshowprint 
Robert Plant signing the press of fame
LATER
Kev
post edited by drumstixkev - 2012/11/11 12:28:02