If I was condemned to a cloistral, cylinder-blocked room…I would be completely content if I had THIS with me:

Explosions In The Sky
4 color screen-print

Every time I look at The Bubble Process’ Explosions In the Sky poster, my eyes widen and I am reminded of why I ABSOLUTELY LOVE The Bubble Process. Their level of detail is so impeccable and alluring. This graphic is completely on point with the band’s epically layered instrumentals… and the name. I mean, when I hear “Explosions In The Sky,” I expect to see something exploding. In the sky. Delivered.

Bon Iver
4 color screen-print

This latest poster for Bon Iver perfectly captures Bon-Iver-melodrama. It makes me think of beer-bellied, plaid-clad, axe-toting burly men. And sylvan-y woodland fairies. Hooray!

Pretty Girls Make Graves
4 color screen-print

Gigposters selected this as a Poster of the Week. I love the color palette, which looks AMAZING overprinted.

…fabulous non-poster things. The “be warmed” holiday cards are screen-printed and will most definitely be MY holiday cards this year (Competition. starts. now. You have from now until December to prove yourself card-worthy, FRIENDS.) The card print is reminiscent of their poster for The Thermals. The Bubble Process has designed shirts for Dave Matthews Band, Jay Reatard, and the Hush Sound. The eye in the Jay Reatard image is super creepy (and very appropriate).

HAPPY HUMP DAY!!@@#@!!! HOORAY FOR DAY 2! WHICH IS JUST AS LOVELY AS DAY 1! Based in Ohio and Brooklyn, the Bubble Process (aka Nicholas REZabek and SEAN..or SEAN AND REZ…let’s be fair) never fails to deliver visually mind popping masterpieces. The Bubble Process prints are always extremely well-designed, and full of magnifying-glass-detail. Rez and Sean graciously agreed to be pummeled with my questions. Read about how they inspire one another (puppies!), their mutual love of Dan Grzeca prints, and DEVO(+Sean) after the JUMP!

(thank you OMGPOSTERS for the delightful Rez and Sean picture)

1. Describe your background. What did you want to do when you were five? What led you to printing? Where are you currently located? How long have you been designing posters?

Rez: My background is simple. From Ohio, 2 Brothers; responsible for one broken Atari, one broken NES, one broken Gameboy. Then I moved to Kent and got a BFA in Visual Communication Design and 2D Concentration from KSU. Sean was my roommate and partner in crime for all of college (where we met). Then I moved again. Got a New Nintendo, New York, New passions: Posters and Pizza.

When I was 5, I wanted to be an oceanographer. That was a dream. Then it quickly moved to botany. I wanted to be a forest ranger. Then partying, and then Sean was enrolled in the Design program at Kent. I thought that it was really interesting, so I took classes over the summer and caught up. In February of 06, Sean and I were sick of doing nothing super creative. He suggested doing posters. I agreed. I had dabbled in screen-printing in college, so it was a natural path. Who knew.

I am in Brooklyn. Sean is in Ohio. We have been doing posters as a team since Feb. of 06.

Sean: Rez covered most of it. I think I wanted to be a real estate agent when I was a kid for some reason. I drew a little when I was younger, mainly Ninja Turtles and Simpsons characters. I really didn’t draw again until college when it was required for the major I was in.

R: Sean got a BFA in Illustration from KSU. And me, as a partner in crime.

2. I would describe my style as:

R: The ass in class. We look at everything. Draw like crazy. Come up with the cool concepts. Try and see where they take us. We pretty much goofed off for a lot of school, but we were really into it. Worked hard to make up lost time out at parties.

S: I think our style is unique in how we work and participate in our work. We both have different ideas and techniques, but are able to feed off each others to make something that works visually. I think our work reflects our personalities and the fun we have creating the work.

3. I am inspired by…

R: Everything. Mostly things from the past. I collect, say, a lot of “junk.” I look at everything too. Right now, I would say I am most inspired by Sean. He constantly blows my mind. Also, old book covers, old type and old baseball cards, old everything. There is a lot of great stuff out there, that begs to come back. “They just don’t make things like they used to.”

S: I really have a fascination with people and find a lot of inspiration in how people look and act. I really enjoy people watching; I have always been a creep like that. But besides that, I definitely feed off of Rez and am inspired by his ideas and his weirdo thoughts.

4. Can you describe the creative process that goes into making a print?

R: Sure, there is a job. Then we talk about it. Come up with some sort of direction(s). Then we jump on one. Start drawing. And pass our files back and forth. I change things, Sean changes things. We keep going. Color it, then print it. Then mail it. Sell it. Repeat.

S: Yup.

5. My favorite print is…

R: Oh man. There are so many great prints. It all changes. I have a Jose Guadalupe Posada woodblock print on my wall that I can’t believe I found. At a flea market. Although, I have a Curtis Jinkins poster that I got from Planet Propaganda’s American Player’s Theatre that I cannot stop looking at. There is just TOO MUCH good stuff, and not a lot of wall space.

S: I don’t really think I have one. Too many cool things out there to choose one. Dan Grzeca prints have been blowing my mind recently.

6. What’s on your walls at home?

R: After the ones above, I have a test print from Aesthetic Apparatis, a piece from Wes Lang. He used to be my upstairs neighbor. A Gary Baseman piece that my fiancée got me, a couple of pages from a masonic ritual book that I bought in Den Hague, and a Dan Grezca. A frame that I can swap out 19 X 25 posters, so I always have something fresh on my wall, a Gina Kelly - Andrew Bird that I got at our first Flatstock, and my main piece, a classic movie poster with Boris Karloff holding a hot pink axe, cutting a girl in half. Lots of our posters up too.

PS — my walls are pretty filled. if you couldn’t guess.

S: The things on my wall change all the time. I don’t have anything framed, just mostly push pinned into the wall. Right now I have a couple Zeloot posters, a great Furturtle “My Morning Jacket” poster, a few Burlesque of North America posters, a Mat Daly poster, a Leia Bell print and a Dan Grzeca test print. I also have a pretty cool unicorn velvet painting, a portrait of Richard Gere (from when he was young), a framed picture of Suge Knight, a Magnum PI tv tray my old roommate Ben gave me, and these 2 light up mirror things that have tranquil beach and nature scenes. They play nature/water sounds when they are turned on. I got them from my friends old roommate who went on the lamb after he wrote a bunch of bad checks.

7. I am currently listening to…

R: Everything. I am really into Amenra right now. But I have been listening to Elvis at Sun and I just got a Canon Blue EP that i can’t put down. I am really into everything. All over the place. Bowerbirds are really good, lots of Bloodlet, WOMEN is one of my new favorites, and I just pulled out my Dead Milkmen and have been listening to them a lot.

S: I have been listening to a lot of AM radio. I don’t quite know why. But I also have been listening to the local oldies station on Sunday nights, when they have the Sunday oldies Jukebox. Good stuff. Sometimes I listen to Sun Ra, Albert Ayler and that stuff, mostly when I’m cleaning. Oh and DEVO, I love DEVO.

8. I support…

R: Dream Jobs! If you can’t find one. Make one. We did. We have fun. It was the best thing I think that I have ever done. GO FOR IT!

S: I agree with Rez. You really have to take a chance and try something you are passionate about. I also support above ground pools and the troops.

9. I am against…

R: Paying full price for anything. Just wait. Find it on ebay.

S: Bees stings and sleeping in.

10. My best recent purchase was…

R: A new watch strap for my Casio calculator watch. my old one ripped. best 12 bucks i have spent in a while.

S: Last night I got sushi from a grocery store and ate it in my car in the parking lot. So probably that sushi.

11. I am currently obsessed with…

R: Sherlock Holmes.

S: The woods.

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