IdleBeats poster art show last Saturday was big fun and success! Thanks to everyone who made it! Your support and love will keep us going nonstop in 2012! :)









Photos by: Kim Laughton

If you are in Shanghai on 10th December, don't miss our print art exhibition at Foundry gallery!



IdleBeats Screen Print Art Show + Holiday Sale
Time: 10th December Saturday 2pm-10pm
Venue: The Foundry Gallery
Address: 729 Shanxi Bei Lu, near Kangding Lu
• Supported by Office 339
• Free entrance, free drinks, free test print gift cards, framed prints and prints in tubes for sale.

The first IdleBeats screen print art show! Featuring 80+ posters and art prints, originally created by IdleBeats duo Nini Sum and Gregor Koerting along with artists from over 10 countries, all hand screen printed in limited editions at IdleBeats studio.

Framed prints and prints in tubes at an affordable price(starts from 100rmb) will be available to purchase at the show as gifts for the holiday season.

IdleBeats has just come out with two new Japanese inspired posters for the CAMERA JAPAN Festival in Holland this fall. The festival is an annual event that celebrates Japanese culture, art, music but especially film.




IdleBeats' own Gregor Koerting was asked to design two great posters for the festival this year. The two unique posters each display a different character from Japanese culture: the geisha, and the tengu. The geisha, more well-known outside Japan than the tengu, is a refined artesian of Japanese culture who is skilled in the art of dance, music, tea ceremony, and conversation. Geisha still exist today in Japan. The tengu, less graceful than the geisha, is a demon known to protect Japan’s mountains and forests. Tengu are still worshiped as Shinto gods in shrines all over Japan.





The theme of this year’s CAMERA JAPAN Festival is “Made in Japan?” which is exactly what the characters on the left hand side of each poster mean. Any western elements you might notice in the poster pertain to this 'made in Japan(or not?)' theme, such as the windmill in the geisha’s hair which is definitely a Dutch element as well as the bucket of popcorn in tengu's hand.





Two posters are both with 4 layers, hand-printed by the artist Gregor Koerting himself. Geisha has an edition of 109 and Tengu only 95. Both prints are on high quality art paper and printed with water-based silk screeen paint. Also every order of a pair comes with a bonus gift!
Grab them here: Geisha & Tengu

IdleBeats recently designed gig posters for two concerts of American band Crystal Stilts' European tour, Gregor from IdleBeats has also invited many poster designers around world to create artworks for other stops of the band's whole tour.

Here comes Mr.Gregor Koerting's masterpiece for Manchester first:



The artwork is inspired by the music as well as the album name.
“A forgotten corner in a museum, an unknown space or people's heart.” - as the artist explains.



It's a 2-color print on 250gsm matte argental art paper, first layer with smooth gradient effect all printed by hand. Silver paper reflects delicate color variations under different lights and environment, this poster is def a piece that worthy collecting and enjoying for a long time.



Get one HERE via our online shopping cart or Etsy.

This one called"She Follows Me Into The Forest" is created by Nini Sum for the band's London concert. Both the visual and name inspiration come from the first song 'Sycamore Tree' of the band's latest album.


It's also the first time that we tried to use water-based luminous(glow-in-dark) paint -on the eyes and pyramid part. It spreads out a quiet and beautiful glow in darkness after absorbing enough light.



We are quite happy with the quality of the prints as well as the glow-in-dark effect. The paper is also a collector choice - thick double-side pearl silver card that generates delicate color reflections when you look at it from different angles.





Grab one HERE. if you are also friends with pyramid and crows.

Clickhere to see some of other artists' work。

Click screenshots below to read the interviews we recently did with HitsPaper (Tokyo, Japan) and Satellite Voices (London, UK).