Mike Davis works just down the hall from us so there’s a pretty good dialogue back and forth between our office and Burlesque where he works. He’s also a huge nerd for classic graphic design and runs a blog , So Much Pileup, devoted to digging up the greatest of graphic ephemera from the high modern to post modern years (Definitely worth following). And, we should also probably mention that he’s a talented club DJ (Mike2600).
Name: Mike Davis
Company: Burlesque of North America
Website: http://burlesquedesign.com
Short explanation of what you do or who you are, one or two sentences.
Burlesque is a group of graphic designers, illustrators and screenprinters. Headquartered in Minneapolis, we create graphic art for mainly music-based clients, host art exhibitsin our First Amendment art gallery, and put out music releases on our BRLSQOTHEQUE record label
Color: woodgrain
Music: Black Sabbath, Public Enemy, The Kinks, Wild Style soundtrack, MSTRKRFT
Book: Herb Lubalin: Art Director, Graphic Designer, Typographer
Designer: Herb.
Animal: Cobra Kitten
Website: friendster.com
Place: Space
Shape: Obelisk (no homo)
Artist: Chuck Close
Typeface: Helvetica Bold
Movie: Raging Bull, Empire Strikes Back, Goonies, When We Were Kings
Work: What?
Word: What!
Season: Autumn, even though I live in a city where the space between Summer and Winter lasts 30 seconds
Magazine: Plumpers
Guilty Pleasure: MC battles, 21st century Pro Wrestling
Distraction: The internets
Love: Hate
Hate: Love
What are you working on right now?
Cuckoo clock art print, two gig posters for Flight of the Conchords, CD artwork for anticon
What career would you switch to if you had to stop your current profession?
Fulltime DJ / music maker.
Why do you __________?
Because you always ______________
