Brad klausen biography
Brad Klausen is an artist mainly in the field of poster art....
Art grad designs concert posters for Pearl Jam and other bands
Brad Klausen's one-man company, Artillery Design, still produces Pearl Jam posters, but he’s also done work for bands such as Built to Spill, Alice in Chains, Soundgarden, the Black Keys and Widespread Panic.
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The DU art grad was working for a design firm in Los Angeles when a newsletter from the Pearl Jam fan club caught his eye. Inspired by what he saw, Klausen (BFA graphic communication design ’98) designed a Pearl Jam poster of his own and put his name and phone number in one corner.
Brad Klausen is known for Pearl Jam: Live at the Garden (), Pearl Jam: Live at the Showbox () and Pearl Jam: Touring Band ().
He mailed it off to Seattle, along with an inquiry about creating artwork for the band. The answer, he says, was “thanks, but no thanks.”
Eight months later, he got the phone call that changed his life.
“[The band] put [the poster] up on their wall where they put other things fans send in, and they just kept it up there,” Klausen says.
“Then they decided they