No One Told Me Not to Do This: Selected Screenprints, 2009-2015 - Paperback

by Jay Ryan (Author)

--One of Indie Rock's Best Poster Artists (Pitchfork)

"Jay Ryan takes the germ of an idea and makes it uniquely great. His genius is in knowing what matters and what doesn't." --Steve Albini

"This richly illustrated volume holds a treasure of eclectic images that utter messages for the viewer to interpret. " --San Francisco Book Review

This third collection of Ryan's "greatest hits" features prints made between 2009 and 2015, including posters for bands such as Andrew Bird, Shellac, My Morning Jacket, Sonic Youth, Dinosaur Jr., Hum, St. Vincent, and others, as well as posters featuring Lil BUB, Cards Against Humanity, various bicycle races, film screenings, and pictures of sloths, walruses, and other mammals in states of troubled sleep. With a foreword by master illustrator Aaron Horkey, this volume comprises two hundred screenprints with commentary and original drawings used in the screenprinting process.

Author Biography

Jay Ryan has been making screenprinted concert posters in Chicago since 1995. He learned to print at the now-legendary Screwball Press, and started his own print shop, The Bird Machine, in the basement of his apartment building in 1999. He served as vice president of the American Poster Institute from 2002-2007. In 2007, Crain's Chicago Business included Ryan on their prestigious "40 Under 40" list, and the following year, Time Out Chicago named him a "Chicago Cultural Hero." His other books are 100 Posters/134 Squirrels and Animals and Objects In and Out of Water.