I apologize for not putting up a Rock Art Wednesday last week, being a one man operation and trying to be successful at my day job as well as here sometimes I get a bit overloaded with work.
To mix things up a bit I took a little different approach for Rock Art Wednesday this week. I wanted to try and get a behind the scenes perspective, see what kind of posters hang on artist’s walls and try to give a more organic feature instead of a straight up interview with a few posters. I’m really happy how it turned out and hope to do some more like this.
Check out the dynamic duo of Seripop, Chloe Lum and Yannick Desranleau out of Montreal who not only create posters together but make music and rock in their band, Aids Wolf.
We are Chloe Lum and Yannick Desranleau of Seripop.
We started up Seripop in 2002 , mostly to make posters for our own bands and for shows we were organizing around Montreal. Things kinda snowballed from there pretty quickly.
We initially quit our day jobs in 2002 to be contract printers full time but quickly phased it cause a) we weren’t that great at printing other people’s work and b) demand from our own designs picked up pretty fast and was more fun & rewarding (although at the time MUCH less lucrative). We spent a few years eeking out a living mostly masking and selling posters and getting jobs from bands to do album covers and shirt designs.
We traveled a lot , both exhibiting our prints anywhere that would have us as well as touring with our band , aids wolf. Both led to us meeting more and more bands wanting to hire us and got us a fair bit of press.
In 2006 we got picked up by an artist rep based on the album cover we did for our own band and since then our poster production has slowed down a fair bit. We’re also on the road 3-4 months out of the year so our days of doing 100 posters in a year like we did in 2003 and 2004 are long gone.
We divide our time between doing commercial illustration , design , posters , playing music and doing more and more personal fine art projects. We’re actively trying to pursue venues to exhibit our silk-screened sculpture work and installations.
See Seripop’s posters, shots of their studio which overlooks Montreal and some of their favorite artwork hanging on their walls after the jump……
Runaway Dinosaur 
