Died Young, Stayed Pretty Screening and Talk

It's a night packed to the rafters with poster art and design, folks!

AIGA Nebraska presents a film screening in partnership with members of the AIGA Bellevue University Student Group.

On Saturday, September 12

6:30 PM
Preshow Reception

7:00-9:30 PM
Film Talks & Screening

9:30-10:30 PM
Postshow Reception

AIGA Nebraska is bringing Eileen Yaghoobian to speak before and after a screening of her film and has invited several local gig poster designers to speak with her. These members of the Nebraska gig poster scene will have their work available to peruse and to purchase at the event.

Help us promote the event by downloading and displaying this poster (designed by Sarah Pangle, Nebraska design student at Bellevue University):

Click here to download a PDF of this poster (5.9 mb)

On display alongside the screening and talk is a collection of poster work from each of the following design teams / designers:

• The Heads of State
• Aesthetic Apparatus
• Patent Pending Industries
• The Small Stakes
• Doe Eyed Design
• Yee-Haw Industries
• Carson Ellis
• Hammerpress
• Burlesque of North America
• Anthony Magliano

Don't miss this evening focused on the art of the gig. The film screens at Bellevue University in the auditorium within their Humanities building.

Admission:

$8 - AIGA Members
$16 - Non-members

Here's more information about the film and about Eileen:

Died Young, Stayed Pretty is a candid look at the underground poster culture in North America.

This unique documentary examines the creative spirit that drives these indie graphic artists. They pick through the dregs of America’s schizophrenic culture and piece them back together. What you end up with is a caricature of the black and bloated heart that pulses greed through the US economy. The artists push further into the pulp to grab the attention of passersby, plastering art that’s both vulgar and intensely visceral onto the gnarled surfaces of the urban landscape.

The film gives us intimate look at some of the giants of this modern subculture. Outside of their own circle, they’re virtually unknown. But within their ranks they make up an army of bareknuckle brawlers, publicly arguing the aesthetic merits of octopus imagery and hairy 70s porn stars. They’ve created their own visual language for describing the spotty underbelly of western civilization and they're not shy about throwing it in the face of polite society.

Along the way, they manage to create posters that are strikingly obscene, unflinchingly blasphemous and often quite beautiful. Yaghoobian shows these artists for what they are: the vivisectionists of America’s morbidly obese consumer culture.

Also check out Steven Heller's interview with Eileen.