Everything about prints

How to order IdleBeats' prints and posters? Here's a little instruction. :)

Online Order
1. Order from idlebeats.com online store
Click 'Add to Cart' on item's page and check out by clicking the shopping cart icon on top right, website orders currently only available by PayPal payment in USD.
(Switch currency by clicking USD or CNY on top right.)

2. Order from Etsy or Taobao.
We have selected prints on our Etsy(English) and Taobao(Chinese) store, where transactions can be completed by multiple payment methods.

3. Order by Email.
Feel free to write us about your order inquiries or any questions during check out: info @ idlebeats.com

• Shipping on prints costs a flat $15 for international shoppers.
• All orders will be shipped in 3 work days via China Post Registered Mail service, arriving worldwide within 10-30 days, a tracking number will be sent to you via email after shipment.
• Orders over $100 gets free delivery worldwide. Just choose 'Over 100USD Order Free International Delivery' while checking out.
• All posters and prints will be shipped rolled in paper tubes with free stickers and studio card.

Shanghai Area:
1. Cash-On-Delivery
Choose 'Pay On Delivery' during check out, we'll be emailing you to schedule a delivery time.
• POD is only available in central Shanghai area(Huangpu, Jing'an district etc.), extra shipping cost might be required due to the distance.

2. Pick-up
Welcome to drop by at IdleBeats studio(South Huangpi Lu, near Xintiandi) and pick up your prints/frames in person. Choose 'Pick Up' during check out and we'll be emailing you to schedule a pick up time.

3. Buy at IdleBeats poster booth
We host prints booths at fairs and concerts, sometimes exhibitions and special sales events, follow us on Facebook / Twitter / Weibo for event updates!

Framing Service
We provide framing service for all prints, please email us for details.

IdleBeats thank you for the print love and your support like always! :)

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

Our friends Rebecca and LiuJiang got married just recently - Congratulations! They found that normal wedding photos are too boring(at least in China..) and asked us to design and hand-pull a batch of silkscreen wedding prints.



Being through a process of discussion, screen exposing, hand-printing and watercolor drawing, the prints start to become vital and spread out a warm feeling which feels so different from the normal plastic-ish wedding photos.



Their wedding in Dong'an at the central province of Henan(LiuJian's hometown) is pretty interesting too, it's a really typical traditional Chinese one like a grand festival! Below are some photos from China Daily, click here to read more.











"Rebecca Kanthor moved from New York State to China eight years ago, where she met Liu Jian, a young musician from the central Chinese province of Henan. After several years together they decided to get married in a traditional rural wedding. In the ceremony, the groom arrives on a horse while his bride is carried around the town by four men, announcing the marriage. Liu is the first person from Dong'an to marry a foreigner."

- China Daily

IdleBeats got invited to live screen-print for Volcom at SOURCE's fashion show at Central Studio(Shanghai) last Friday night. We were very happy to be part of the show cause the party's fun and the crowd's really cool as well.

Two artwork creations for the live printing with Volcom's logos blended together, originally illustrated by Nini Sum:


Icecubes


Seagull


A video of the night.


Nini and Gregor are working hard.






Rockbilly band Angry Jerks from Nanjing playing on the runway.

The 'fruits' of our labor!

Feel free to Contact Us for live screen-printing service, definitely a cool way to make your event one to remember!

Check out the posters(originally designed by Zeke Clough) we printed recently for Shackleton's gig at The Shelter (Shanghai) this Saturday, we are so exicited to work with Sub-Culture creating such well-designed and high quality posters, hand-pulled gig poster art finally arrives in Shanghai!









Let's see what SmartShanghai says as well:

"Aces of bass, Sub-Culture have a big show on their hands this Saturday when they welcome in Skull Disco co-founder, and one of dubstep's most original voices, Shackleton in to Shanghai for his first show ever at The Shelter. It's going to be a huge deal, and they're doing it right, bringing in extra speakers and sub-woofers for this thing. It's the biggest one they've done so far -- it's excessive. I think they're just trying to show that they haven’t gone soft.

Every month, the Sub-Culture crew is inviting locally-based and international artists and graphic designers to design their event posters, and in collaboration with Nini Sum and IdleBeats, they're silk screening them up and making them available for purchase on the night. It's a really great idea -- hand-done, silk-screened images by unique graphic designers that you can buy for cheap, go get framed, and use to spruce up your living room. We've got some pictures of Idle Beats silk screening these Shackelton posters. Scroll all the way down for those.

For their first go with the concept, they've got artwork from Zeke Clough, a UK-based artist who designed all the sleeves for all the Skull Disco releases. His own distinctive style has been incorporated as "the look" of Skull Disco these past few years, but he's also done stuff for Mordant Music and Warp Records. Last but not least, his art work has also been featured in Wire, which we all know, is the Greatest Music Magazine in the World.

Speaking as someone with absolutely no real background in illustration (I checked out of comics sometime during the Bronze Age), I would describe Clough's style as The Misfits reading Zap Comics whilst high on hot knives. Possibly also listening to Cannibal Corpse. Maybe a documentary on Norwegian Black Metal is on in the background. Check out Zeke Clough on the web right here, and don't forget to check out his comic strips."

See below for the printing process, thanks much to Gregor for the help!







5 of the 33 are available to purchase via our online store, you can also pick one up at "Sub-Culture pres. Shackleton" this Saturday @ The Shelter. Support is from the Sub-Culture crew. Cover is only 50rmb.