The Renegade Craft Fair comes to San Francisco this weekend, and I'm very excited about some of the vendors that will be there. A wide range of illustrators, jewelers, home-goods crafters and letter-press printers will be luring me to their tables. I've trolled the Renegade Crafts Fair site and gone down the list of participating San Francisco vendors. I tried to keep to a tight set of criteria for picking out my favorite vendors. 1. They had to be making something that was original and unique — not like the multiple vendors who will be there selling upcycled wallets and notebooks — something special. 2. I also wanted to stick primarily with vendors working in the paper arts or using their own designs and illustrations on T-shirts, totes and other ephemera, because it's more relevant to my interests and more relevant to those looking at a print-focused blog. 3. I also just chose, completely subjectively, the items I would drop cash on and be willing to display in my home. All my laboring in front of a hot computer all day, making the hard decisions, has brought you this list of my favorite renegades at the fair: 3 Fish Studios A husband and wife team of painters and print makers in SOMA.
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I love you California print
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Merde 6x6 painting
Amos Goldbaum He's got such a loopy gestural quality to his line drawings that make them seem alive.
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Ferry Building T-shirt
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Muni T-shirt
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Televisor print
Berkley Illustration I had found this illustrator before in my Etsy wanderings and already had my eye on some squirrel prints.
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Kittens print
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Cardinal print
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Red Squirrel print
Brian Gubicza I can picture these in a baby boy's room. He would never be afraid of monsters looking into these gentle faces every day.
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Creature print
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Robot print
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Werewolf print
Caitlin Kuhwald I've seen Caitlin's editorial illustrations before — most notably in 7x7 Magazine — and I love her style
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Owling
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Pink Lady
Campfire Goods I love a good typography T-shirt. They also carry a lot of state and region-specific shirts.
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Bold Sans T-shirt
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Quotes and Primes T-shirt
DKNG Visually great poster design.
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Smoke
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Unchain Yourself poster
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Smodcast gig poster
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K.D. Lang gig poster
Double Parlour Are we seeing a theme here with animal heads on human bodies? Hmmm.
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The Hunter
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The Traveler
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Lonely Accordionist
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Oh Dear
Erin Dollar A nice minimal geometric aesthetic.
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Abstract embroidery
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Warm Sweater card
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Geometric Pillows
Gnome Enterprises Bold, graphic and pretty.
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Fox T-shirt
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Narwhals T-shirt
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Whale T-shirt
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Wolf T-shirt
Hillary Bird I love quirky hand-lettering. And her sense of color is nice.
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2011 Calendar
Jason Munn You may remember Jason Munn from the "
Best Summer Movie (posters)" post. I know that it's so hard to come up with such tightly crafted concepts and execute them with such minimalist precision.
Kevin Tong Another amazing illustrator. Every poster is a study in color use and line finesse.
Mis Noplaes You may also remember Mis Nopales from my
"Day of the Dead" post. Still charmed by his prints.
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Frida Kahlo Calavera
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Sirena Serenata
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Sunday Morning Limited Edition
Nora Aoyagi These are her silhouette pieces which I covet. She also does full-color paintings
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Alice
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Fancy Bird
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Fancy Wolf
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Portrait of a Girl
Valhalla Studio Last, but certainly not least, Valhalla Studios. Yet another vendor making beautiful concert posters.
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