Inside The Rock Poster Frame is to be credited for these photos of the varied designs featured on the ever-popular Pearl Jam tour posters thus far. The site credits designer Munk One (aka Jose Mercado) as the artist for the Berlin poster – an interesting addition to the PJ design pool! Mercado has also done work for the Brendan O’Brien produced band Mastodon, and former Loosegroove Records band Queen of The Stone Age. Me you, you me…it’s all related!
The design of the Calgary and Shepherd’s Bush posters is somewhat of a mystery; an “A” and acorn logo is in the lower right corner, and it is reported that Ames Bros. stated in a private e-mail to an inquiry about the two posters that they did not design them. Start sleuthing!
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- Calgary
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- London – Shepherd’s Bush
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- Rotterdam
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- Berlin – Munk One
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If Ames didn’t design the Calgary poster then maybe a local artist did. It has to be a tribute to 2 things. First the Calgary Stampede, one of the biggest rodeos in the world. (The Cowboy’s belt buckle says Stampede on it) Second, the cowboy himself bears a striking resemblance to Lanny McDonald, long-time captain of the Calgary Flames and argueably the most popular player in Flames history. (We’re big hockey fans up here eh.)
Calgary, London and LA1… the Acorn artist is Arnold Cornelio.
Please see his myspace page while, in his own words, he gets his shit together. I got to email Arnold. He said Max242 got him hooked up with the merchandisers for the tour. Lucky guy!
http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendid=5035061