TAZ Studios
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Begun in 1990 as an art collaboration between Jim Evans (created the each poster’s main image and handled the business end), Gibran Evans (typographer and digital engineer), and Rolo Castillo (hand-pulled color separations). Jim had been doing his own art and had exhibited work at a small gallery show of Sex and Violence cut-and-paste Xerox and silkscreen pieces.
The art collective was born at an after-concert party for Nirvana, where Dave Grohl and members of L7 convinced him to do a full-scale poster for an upcoming Rock for Choice benefit.
Each member of the art group had total freedom to do what they wanted on these collectivized pieces, so the final outcome was often something of a surprise.
The team produced about 200 rock posters over a ten year period, each piece hand-pulled by Rolo. Their style was to work in large formats, with big, blocky typefaces and bold colors. The intention was to reduce the visual language to simple flashpoints that made an immediate impact while at the same time trying to annoy and enshrine bad taste. Their ambition was to increase the public’s visual anxiety quotient.
