The venue is jammed. The energy of the room radiates a passion for music, and the work of dedicated artists is finally organism showcased.
This isn't a rock candy concert, though, it's Flatstock 18 � the pop rock-poster aim show opening its one-sixth year at Bumbershoot this Saturday at Seattle Center.
Flatstock is a time when poster designers get out of their apartments and display their art to the hoi polloi, most of whom don't realize the amount of work that goes into making the concert posters that advertize their favourite bands.
The normal, presented by the American Poster Institute and Bumbershoot, brings together poster designers from around the world and has become so popular that it's moved from the Center House to a larger country in the Fisher Pavilion.
"Sometimes you can't even walk in the aisles, it's so packed," said Laura Stalions, director of Seattle's Flatstock. "It's a brobdingnagian draw." She says Flatstock puts the "art" in "Seattle's Arts and Music Festival" � Bumbershoot's tagline.
Here, four local poster designers chat almost their work, Flatstock and their engaged, busy lives.
Arla Shephard: 206-515-5632 or ashephard@seattletimes.com
Matt Terich, Design Medicine
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As a child, Matt Terich wanted to be a comic book artist. He stopped drawing when he learned how to play the guitar.
Years later, Terich came full circle. As a musician in the band The Senate Arcade, he started creating fliers for their concerts. Before he knew it, he was designing for early bands as well.
Terich touched to Seattle from San Diego in 2000 and now works as a user-interface designer for a stealth-mode inauguration technology troupe. In the evenings, he designs posters; on the weekends, he prints them himself.
The gentleman behind Design Medicine says his
