It looks like he's just using them as part of his portfolio. I couldn't see any place where they are for sale.
On Sun, Feb 10, 2013 at 4:49 PM, grant <grant...@gmail.com> wrote: > A bit of a surprise. Dan Blackman is a talented artist, and I found out > about him when I toured the Pointer Brand factory in Bristol, VA--when i was > on my book tour. I liked the work he did for pointer, contacted him and > talked about posters. He and Dave were talking, and I/Dave too THOUGHT we > were clear about what we wanted---INFO-graphical posters that told the story > of the bike via symbols, graphs, pie charts. > > We were to pay him about $4,500---I think that was the figure--for six or > seven posters, with a KILL FEE of $1,000. A kill fee is what the artist gets > if the project goes south for any reason. In our case, the posters were > taking a direction we didn't expect and that didn't seem to be > info-graphical. So we nipped it in the bud, so we thought, paid the kill > fee, and that should have been it. > > It it is suprising to find that the posters continued. I don't know what to > think about it, really. It never occured to us that it would go this way. I > like to control any-and-all impressions of Rivendell, because there's a > certain style that I want associated with us and the bikes and all. But I > don't think we can stop anybody from doing that, legally---and if we could, > I wouldn't bother or go to the expense. It would be so unpleasant, almost > mean, and we have our hands full already. Plus it's not like Dan Blackman is > the enemy, either. I wish he hadn't, but he did, and I hope he makes a > little money off them and then they sort of fade away. > > > > > On Sunday, February 10, 2013 2:05:38 PM UTC-8, Christopher Murray wrote: >> >> Ran across this on the 'tubes. Anyone seen these in person? Do they exist? >> Like'em a lot. >> >> >> http://www.thefoxisblack.com/2012/12/12/rivendell-bicycle-works-posters-by-daniel-blackman/ >> >> Cheers! >> cm > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "RBW Owners Bunch" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch@googlegroups.com. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch?hl=en. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch?hl=en. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
