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All through the month of April at Progress Coffee on East 5th you can check out the poster art printed and designed at Under Pressure. This collection includes 2 years of badass limited run gig posters printed for a wide assortment of nationally recognized bands, including The National, Of Montreal, Built To Spill, Best Coast, Kool Keith and many more. All 24 displayed prints are also for

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Our new schedule for workshops in July is here. In addition to our beginner class, we are also offering a multi-color printing class for those who already have a grasp of printing and thirst for more knowledge. Call us today at 512-445-3488 to reserve your spot!

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Under Pressure Screen Printing has lived through SXSW and now we are back in full swing with workshops for the month of April and May. Details follow......

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The schedule is out for our January and February workshops. We have two beginner classes offered each month. They are a great crash course for anyone who is interested in knowing more about screen printing. We are also offering a new class designed help out people who want to start a bulk screenprinting project but are unsure how to get the ball rolling.All of our workshops can also be

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We recently made friends with the indie group Best Coast during Fun Fun Fun Fest. Courtesy of our newest intern Jonathan Hubbell and his girlfriend's Mom we made contact and showed them some designs for a Fun Fun Fun Fest screenprinted gig poster. In case you are unfamiliar, their sweet indie pop styling emerged earlier this year with debut release "Crazy For You". They have since been

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The first night of Built to Spill's rollicking indie stomp through Austin is behind us. It was a fantastic display of Martsch and company's ability to rock like the day the released "There's Nothing Wrong with Love" almost 2 decades ago. The 2 hour set was packed with old and new favorites including Carry the Zero off "Keep it Like a Secret", which this 3-time BTS audience member has never

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Workshops are back again. These will be the last workshops we offer this year. Get down your basics of printing by taking our start to finish workshop. We will take you through start to finish of printing and show you all you need to start printing.We our offering a new 3-D workshop that will show you how to turn prints into 3-D. This class will also show case color toning with one color and

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Titus Andronicus sounds like nostalgia and this poster smells like it. Titus Andronicus will be play at Emos tomorrow on the 1st of September with YellowFever and Whitman. This poster is a 4-color print that was printed by hand by Michael Fuchs. This poster is a 55 limited print edition on fine Cougar 100lbs cover. This print showcases some fine half toning and textures. The idea behind

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We have more workshop goodness coming up in August. Of course as always we have our beginner class, but we are also bringing back the poster printing class, and have added a brand new class that explains the process of discharge printing.If you have ever been interested in screen printing, or just looking to pick up a new hobby these classes are tailored to lay down some serious knowledge. The

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Under Pressure Screen Printing has been planning and producing for a up coming art show near the end of September. This piece was done in 4 days with 11 colors being printed on some fine 100% cotton paper. The original piece was a water color painted by Michael Fuchs and than taken and turned into a 11 color print. All prints are still printed 100% by hand to preserve the hand feeling of

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Johnny Dimas has produced another sweet poster for Lotus. Lotus is having a Summer Dance this August. This should be a great jam fest with headliners Eoto, which is a project from members of the String Cheese Incident. This is sure to be a hot festival for those in Ohio. This Screen Print is a 3 color print which was inspired by the rock quarry where the fest is to take place. Johnny hand

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Mr. Benton has create another unique poster for Parade of Flesh's free show event in Dallas, Texas. On Friday Austin locals, Pack of Wolves, will play along with Kill the Client, Maleveller and Golden Axe. On Saturday Bass Drum of Death will play along with Bad Sports, Slang Chickens, The Coathangers, Leg Sweeper, and Predator. This limited edition print will be available to purchase at the

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Living in Austin is certainly a blessing for local screen printers, especially those who dabble in poster printing. Live acts are flocking from all over the world to hit Austin on their Spring, Summer and Fall tours. I don't understand the Summer tour stop in Austin with the debilitating heat, but I'm not complaining.The year is only half over and we have already designed and printed custom gig

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Tonight, Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros is coming to Austin. Their show at La Zona Rosa with We Are Eachother featuring Aaron Embry is slated to go down at 8pm.In support of Austin Screen printing, Mr. Sharpe and his troubadour of musicians commissioned us to create a custom gig poster just for this very special show. If you have heard of the band (chances are you have with their single "

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Work shops are here once again. We have added a new class called discharge printing that teaches people how to print with a specialty ink that sucks the color out of shirt. Here is the list and remember to sign up before others beat you to it.

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HEALTH will be coming to Austin this June 26 and will be rocking out at the Red 7. This print was create by Michael C. Fuchs and it is a design of a old plinko machine that has a back texture of tree bark. There is a total of 5 colors for this print and the sizing is 25x19. There is only 53 prints in this edition and each print was printed by hand by the artist himself. These prints were all

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Due to popular demand, we have added new workshop days to our June Calendar.There are three categories offered; Start to Finish, Poster Collective, and Candy Colors. Each one focuses on a different aspect of screen printing and the processes involved in making shirts and posters.If you are new to screen printing we highly suggest our Start to Finish beginner course. You need no prior knowledge

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The Lotus posters are done and after three screen printing sessions at our South Austin print shop they shipped out today. This great design was done by Johnny Dimas, an up and coming designer who exemplifies cool and clean design work.He loves how he can turn a digital design into a tangible piece of artwork through screen printing.The first color we put down filled the paper almost edge to

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Last night the U.P. crew was screen printing live in downtown Austin for an official SXSW interactive party. Ustream, an online community of self proclaimed Speilbergs, hosted a gala of an event at Pheonix Bar on 4th and colorado. I hope this bar can hold steady in that location; it was straight up swanky. Modern wrap sofas, digital multi-colored flouyrescent ligh accents and wonderfully tacky

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Thanks to everyone who supported screenprinting in Austin last Friday by buying a limited edition Tegan and Sara poster for their show at Bass Concert Hall. We managed to make 60 of these colorful little beauties. If you were one of the few to snag one at the show count yourself lucky, they sold out early. I mean, who doesn't love bike racks and balloons?The quirky and colorful combination

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Akron and Family are playing with Warpaint tonight at The Parish in Austin, Texas. This is for sure to be a show of hotness and chanting. The posters have been made and this sweet screen printed poster will be for sale tonight.Let start with color one a green the means earth. This is the first color we printed down on fine french paper. These posters were printed all by hand with fine water

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Today's happenings: We are printing badass limited edition Tegan and Sara posters for their show next week at bass concert hall. Who doesn't love bike racks and balloons?

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Yesterday and today we tackled 150 prints for Misprint magazine's 4th annual Beard and Moustache Competition. This year's hairyness will take place downtown at Mohawk on Red River.Drinks and prizes for the fiercest Beards and Moustache's will include swag from Bird's Barber shop, yours truly, Alamo Drafthouse, and many more.The poster itself was a seemingly simple 3 color design, beautifully

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Under Pressure is gearing up this week with a release of poster prints to shirts for events around Austin Texas. Each screen print will be printed by hand with no robots at all.The 1st job that we are tackling full force tomorrow is a 3-color poster for the 4th annual Beard and Moustache Contest being held at Mohawks at 9 p.m. on this Friday. This event should be pretty hairy fun and is

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For Appointments Please click the blog. Yes we have made appoints as easy as a click and will add to main website site for now click the side bar tab on the and we will add you. This is for the overflow of traffic we expect.

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Under Pressure will be hosting a full hands on work shop that will aim at taking humans through the complete process of screen printing. We will take you through the process of coating screens, producing a film output, developing your screen, printing with a screen, and how to recycle your screens.The key printing process that we will be focusing on is water based screen printing. There has been

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We currently have 3 poster designs we are working on for February. More details as we flesh them out and start printing. But if you are going to a big show this month (and there are plenty to choose from) buy a commemorative poster. The blood, sweat and coffee induced fury of a local screen printer probably went into making that piece of art exist. Support your local screen printer, so we can

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These are the Workshops that we have planed for February. The Start to finish workshop will take you through all the steps for printing. We will cover every thing for A to Z. This is a great workshop for people that want to start screen printing and we will teach you all the steps. For this class everyone should bring there own design to print or stop by before class in order to get a

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This a new limited edition poster print that was inspired by the rainy days we've had in Austin, Texas recently. It turns those gray days upside down.This poster was first done as a water color and than reproduced as a limited edition hand screen printed poster. These posters are available online for only $25 or you can come by the shop to pick one up. Get 'em while they're hot. We also have

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Check out the badass image Eric Benton created for our patch workshop. It is being held on Jan 26th. See our website for more info.Everyone who attends will get to make a limited edition two color patch and learn the processes behind going from drawing to screen print.Bring yourself and some blank garments if you want to throw some additional ink. Bring a friend and bring some beers. It will

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Come join us Tuesday Jan 26th for an after hours screen printing workshop. This is free to all who attend!If you have ever been curious about how screen printing works or how you can take your digital art and convert it to a tangible medium screen printing is must have knowledge.In this, our first of many free workshops, we will take you through the process of creating a two color image. From

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I just started a new website for the shop and am attempting to link a blog to it. Will it work, who the hell knows. Html is my nemesis, but soon enough I will have vanquished it in a fashion befitting of legend.

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