Anyone who’s successfully executed a rooftop beer-bong hit can attest that drinking is an art. With the explosion of the craft-beer market in recent years, however, the art has gotten visual: The space on a craft-beer label has become as hotly contested among artists as a the chance to design a Black Keys concert poster. Here’s our rundown of the top 10 beer labels among indie breweries, both well-known and not. Stillwater Small enough to host their website on Blogspot, but good enough to garner a place on Draft Magazine’s list of the top 25 beers of 2011, this Baltimore-based brewery...
When Cleveland-based pen-and-ink artist Derek Hess talks about his art, the conversation starts, anachronistically enough, with 1930s U.S. history. “My dad was of the World War II generation. He flew a B26 bomber, and the people he rolled with were of that generation,” he said. “When those people chose to go to art school, schooling was about fundamentals. You learned fundamentals from teachers, who’d learned from their teachers, who’d learned from theirs.” The technical precision Hess’s father, who later became the head of the industrial art department at the Cleveland Ins...
By Daena Urbanski Breakneck Gallery recently took over what was known as “The Pop Shop” on the corner of Cordova and Madison Ave in Lakewood. New owners, Sean and Kristen Burns, are making new changes to the space but keeping to some of the ideas The Pop Shop left behind. The grand opening celebration on Friday, October 7th from 6-9 pm will be the opening reception of the “Cinematic Redux II” art show. Cinematic Redux II is a sequel show to an open artist call The Pop Shop held in August of 2010. Local artists were invited to recreate and redesign posters for their favorite Holl...
