Today I’m pleased to host this giveaway by some of my favorite designers working today. I met Simon & Jon of Studio Ace of Spade once they started following my textures here at Valleys In The Vinyl. I instantly loved their print design because of their texture use, strong typography, and vintage styling. For the last few months I’ve personally been anxiously awaiting their new prints to arrive and be ready for purchase. I was even the first person to place an order yesterday(proof).
Some of you may already be familiar with their work, but for everyone who’s not, I think you will have a great appreciation for it. There is crossover appeal between the audience here and the fans of their style. Learn more about them and their contest below…
A little bit about 13 Spade
Designed, coded, developed, and curated by Jon Savage and Simon Birky Hartmann of the design firm Studio Ace of Spade, we are working tirelessly to offer the best ecommerce experiences around for our customers and our artists. We believe in the power of design and art, and can’t imagine the world without it.
13 Spade was born one chilly November day in 2010 when we noticed that all of the wonderful art around us was made by relatively unknown artists. After talking with some of these artists, the project gained much support. It slowly started snowballing into a project ten times the size we had imagined.
-from the 13 Spade ‘About’ page
The Giveaway
The guidelines and format are simpler and much different than the last give away that was hosted here on on Valleys In The Vinyl. All you need to do to enter this contest is comment on this post. This contest will be open from today (Tuesday June 5th) until 12:00PM (EST) Monday June 11th. Now you must be wondering, what will I win? Good question.
13 Spade just launched its new line of prints, and is giving away one print of your choice. Here are the new prints..
Cold Tone/Warm Tone
-Designed by Simon Hartmann & Jon Savage | Learn the Backstory
Get Shit Done (new run)
-Designed by Simon Hartmann & Jon Savage
Get shit done has been our most successful poster to date, with the first run being completely sold out. To all the buyers of that run: thank you, and hang on to them, because you have a collector item on your wall. We’ll never reprint the poster in this size and in this finish.
This new run is also a limited one, and we sized the poster slightly smaller than a letter-sized sheet of paper for easy (and discreet) hanging in your cubicle. The shots below show the prints, and also some of the bigger test prints we had made. They might find their way in a giveaway, or in the tube of some early 13 Spade shoppers, who knows.
The Bear by Thomas Thirrion
Go Media’s Jeff Finley’s Parachute Journalists gig poster
Jeff Finley is one of the partners at Go Media, and also the guy behind Weapons of Mass Creation Fest. He was also the drummer in the now defunct band Parachute Journalists. A while back, they had a show at the 5 O’clock Lounge in Cleveland. They needed a poster for it, so Jeff designed this guy.
This concludes the new prints section…but we’re not done yet!
In addition to the poster of their choice, the winner will also receive one of these screen prints:
These are from way back when I (Simon) first learned about screen prints. People familiar with the matter might even see that they’re done one the test sheets used by some printers. I have only 4 of them in white on black. I can’t remember if I did these myself or if the guys I was interning for at the time did these for me as a gift.
I mean, it was back in 2008. Remember how much skulls apparel designers were drawing back then?
Finally, the last but not the least: we’re working on putting a coupon code together for people that will not win to get a discount on their purchase. We’ll probably drop coupons on a random basis during WMC Fest, so check out out twitter stream at @StudioAoS, @simonhartmann, and @jonathantsavage.
We hope you like these new prints, that you’ll buy them like that we can reorder some more and create new ones!
Time to write your comments to enter, the winner will be chosen at random next week once the contest is closed on Monday, June 11th at 12:00PM (EST). Good luck!