The Classics ReDux
Print Series
Celebrate Columbus: My first poster and always my favorite.
Beach Family: "Beach Family" is a bus and subway poster commissioned by the School of Visual Arts in New York City. I took the opportunity to explore a different side of my work. I wanted to break away from the minimalist style — singular image floating on a white page, to something that was "maximalist" and layered with lots of readings to it. Also considering that most posters in NYC often get graffiti'd over, I wanted to make a pre-graffiti'd poster. Created just post 9/11, this my own love letter to New York. It is a "Where's Waldo" with everything that I loved about my home
Disney Go Home: This small series of self-published posters was created in a response to the rejuvenation and commercialization of Times Square, or as I called it the Disneyfication of Times Square. Turning it from something authentic and real — albeit a bit dangerous — into yet another strip mall with curated crap.
Just Say No: This small series of self-published posters was created in a response to the rejuvenation and commercialization of Times Square, or as I called it the Disneyfication of Times Square. Turning it from something authentic and real — albeit a bit dangerous — into yet another strip mall with curated crap.
Images of an Ideal Nation: A commission from the University of Chicago for an exhibition on contra posters — images fighting for women's and civil rights, war and the death penalty. The posters were hung around the campus, and quickly all were stolen.
RaCism: RaCism.
Live the Questions: "Live the Questions" is a bus shelter and subway poster commissioned by my almost-alma-mater, the School of Visual Arts. The idea was simple: while waiting for your train, you have time, with that I wanted to give my audience something to read and create a teaching moment by illustrating my favorite passage from Rilke's "Letters To a Young Poet."
Stay Hard: Stay Hard
The End: Back when paper companies created beautiful, physical objects for designers to collect and share, 26 designers were assigned punctuation marks — like the comma or N-dash or question mark — to design a poster around. I was given the period. The end.
Use a Condom / Bunny Poster: This series of posters was commissioned by a Japanese condom company. True to the Japanese non-advertising style, the posters didn't have to "tell you something" they have to make you feel something. What wonderful art direction.
Use a Condom / Flies Poster: This series of posters was commissioned by a Japanese condom company. True to the Japanese non-advertising style, the posters didn't have to "tell you something" they have to make you feel something. What wonderful art direction.
Weird Kid / Yellow: I have never written anything more truthful and more meaningful than this short statement.
DETAILS
Every poster is printed on demand by A2A, the graphic production studio that started producing James's prints in 2013. Many of these images began life as limited-edition silkscreens. A2A worked directly with James to color-correct each one and build custom lookup tables, so every print stays true to the original artwork.
· Museum-quality 10-color archival Epson inkjet print
· Enhanced matte cover stock
· Color-matched with the artist
· Polybagged and shipped worldwide
· Ships within 3-5 days of order