In 2003, he appropriated Soviet war and socialist propaganda in creating the look for that festival - in 2004 he stayed in the same vein but instead raided the vaults of not-dissimilar United States war department production artists efforts for the "teaser" poster.

He exercised "fair use" and modified images and concepts that originated in the United States Office of War Information, circa 1943. The original text from that read: “I'm counting on you. Don't discuss troop movements, ship sailings, war equipment.”

Obviously, he changed it to read something else entirely, but kept the look and feel of the original fonts and layout.

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All of these images are viewable as detailed, full-page images, just click on the image. Printer friendly, higher resoluton PDF versions are on this disk in the 2004 Festival Graphics Folder, or if your browser tolerates it, clicking the links underneath the images may open them in Adobe Acrobat.

For the comprehensive fest graphics, Andy borrowed imagery from the 2004 presidential election. This was the official poster.

Again, you can click on these images and they ought to open up in a new page so you may view greater detail.

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Andy designed the very official looking three-day passes, which we printed onto red, clear or blue acetate and laminated.

The seal image was derived from United States Homeland Security
imagery. It resembles any official executive branch seal, really.

At the time we were using the term "experimental multimedia" to describe our activities, but later adopted the broader" emerging arts" term. That's why you'll see both of those version on this release.

...and for the fundraiser imagery he amalgamized...well, you figure it out. Lord of the Moore? Fahrenheit Jackson/11? Again, it was timely, and it really caught the eye.

Finally, Mr. Cryptic created a timely website - a loose parody of some United States Homeland Security stuff. It still exists: click here.

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