UPDATED TEST PRINTS!!! 05/19/10 Due to an inventory glitch, many test prints that are actually in stock were marked sold out. If you've been tempted by a test print that you were previously told was sold out--it may be worth it to take another gander at our wares...wait that sounds dirty. In short, there's some new test prints and some older ones that were originally marked as sold out--so get your purse. ^^ Back to Top !ARTCRANK 10! 04/09/10 Saturday April 10th at 7PM! Head over to Shelter Studios in NE (North East, not Nebraska) and check out everyone's favorite bike-inspired art print show. ^^ Back to Top AESTHETIC APPARATUS STORE HOURS 02/15/10 The Aesthetic Apparatus store is open Monday through Friday from 9:30 to 5pm. Because we are not a traditional store front it is a good idea to give us a call us at 612.339.3345 to confirm we're around before traveling 3000 miles to purchase a poster. ^^ Back to Top HAPPY NEW YEAR! 01/18/10 Thank you to all our customers who made 2009 a successful year for us at Aesthetic Apparatus. You are all wonderful humans. ^^ Back to Top !HOLIDAY SHIPPING! 12/18/09 If you are shopping for holiday gifts the shipping deadlines have come and gone. While we will still be pushing incoming orders out the door with great efficiency, we can no longer guarantee holiday delivery. Sorry. If you absolutely need something by the end of next week--contact the studio to discuss more expedited options. ^^ Back to Top ATTENTION HOLIDAY SHOPPERS 12/02/09 December is just flying by and if you'd like some AA goodness under the tree we have some deadlines for you to be aware of. Orders going overseas should be placed by DECEMBER 10th at the latest. (Their maybe some exceptions in there contact us if you are unsure) To our friends in the States--you have until DECEMBER 17th. Happy shopping, Happy Holidays, and to all a good night. ^^ Back to Top NEW ART PRINTS GALORE! 11/13/09 Just in time for a wide variety of your favorite holidays, we have made a bevy of new art prints available. Many of them are priced at a modest five American dollars. ^^ Back to Top HALF OFF SALE (IN STORE ONLY) 10/07/09 IT'S HAPPENING AGAIN! One day only. In store only (not online). Take HALF OFF Aesthetic Apparatus posters and prints from 9AM to 6pm FRIDAY, OCTOBER 9TH. ^^ Back to Top KINGS WINE BAR 08/25/09 If you're from the Twin Cities please check out Kings Wine Bar. We designed their identity and they recently opened their doors for business. Find out more here: http://kingsmpls.com/ ^^ Back to Top FUTURE OF THE LEFT OUT TODAY 06/23/09 Hey! Future of the Left's "Travels With Myself And Another" is out today, June 23. We were lucky enough to do the artwork for the record and are quite pleased to be involved with the whole thing. Please do yourself a favor and run down to your favorite music store/website and pick it up! ^^ Back to Top THANK YOU! 04/17/09 A big, fat, uncomfortable THANK YOU hug to all of you that came to our big sale and studio party a few weeks back. It was a HUGE success thanks to you all. ^^ Back to Top AA 10TH ANNIVERSARY ONLINE AUCTION IS LIVE! 03/27/09 Hello all you bid wetters, the Aesthetic Apparatus 10th Anniversary Auction is live and online and just waiting for your perusal. The auction page is http://hautecrap.com . (You didn't expect the domain name to be something tasteful did you?) This auction will be running online all day, Saturday March 28th. If you are one of the beautiful people and live in the twin cities you can come by the studio and take a look at all the posters being auctioned in person, bid and take in all the fantastic other crap we'll have around for our sale and party. For the most part everything is self-explanatory as far as the auction works but here’s some specific information you should know: -ALL AUCTION END TIMES ARE PACIFIC TIME ZONE! (Sorry, we never figured out how to fix this) -The first auction (Hold Steady) ends at 7PM Pacific (9 Central.) Each following auction ends every 5 minutes after that with last auction (Mike Watt) ending at 8:55PM Pacific (10:55PM central.) -To bid, click the link below each poster. It will bring up a pop-up window in which you can enter your personal information and your bid. -Bidding works similar to eBay. If bidding starts at $40 and you bid $100 your bid will be displayed as $50 and will continuously outbid proceeding bidders until someone bids over your $100. -You will only receive email notification if you are outbid. Initial bids will not receive an initial email and winning auctions will be contacted by us directly. -We prefer winning auctions be paid via PayPal although other payment methods can be arranged if need be. -Bidding is kind of honor policy so please do not abuse. Have fun! ^^ Back to Top AA 10TH ANNIVERSARY PARTY AND SUPER SALE! 03/27/09 Come on down to the studio Saturday, March 28th, for an all-day sale and party to celebrate Aesthetic Apparatus' 10 years of existence. We'll be offering our typical early-spring/late-winter litter box liner scratch 'n dent posters sale along with test prints, t-shirts, crap off our walls, bands, donut holes and an online/studio auction to be announced here Friday evening. Sales start at noon, music at 9 (Awesome Snakes & The Deaths), fun every second. ^^ Back to Top AA AT TEEFURY.COM 02/16/09 We have a t-shirt available on TeeFury.com for $9. It's only available for one day...today - Monday, February 16! Happy Presidents Day America! ^^ Back to Top AA 10TH ANNIVERSARY 02/10/09 We don't need to make a big deal out of it but we thought you might like to know that today, February 10, 2009, is the 10th anniversary of Aesthetic Apparatus. There's actually no exact day that we started this thing but this is the date on the first poster we ever made ten years ago so we figured that was authorization enough. We're planning some kind of, uh, 'party' for late March so keep a look out for that. Congratulatory gold bars and six-packs can be sent to our Snelling address. ^^ Back to Top OMG THINGS ON SALE 02/03/09 For a limited time the following posters are are HALF PRICE: Death Takes a Holiday, Constantines, Josh Ritter w/Orchestra, Murder by Death, The Whigs, The Redwalls, Fountains of Wayne, Unsane, Dark Meat, Bang Camaro, Might Mighty Bosstones, Modern Radio Showcase, EL-P, Heroine Sheiks and Icarus Line. DON'T WAIT UNTIL YOUR GRANDMOTHER BUYS UP ALL THESE BEFORE YOU CAN. Or something. You know. ^^ Back to Top NEW TEST PRINTS AVAILABLE! 01/15/09 We're not lying. There are new test prints available for purchase in the, um, "Test Prints" section of this very website. We encourage everyone to sell body parts and/or fluids to make the purchase of these items possible. If you are lacking in spare body parts and/or fluids perhaps you have friends that have some laying around that they're not using. You never-ever know. ^^ Back to Top OH, MY. HAPPY NEW YEAR! 01/07/09 ^^ Back to Top HOLIDAY SHIPPING DEADLINE HAS ARRIVED 12/18/08 Our holiday shipping deadline has arrived and is passing. Today, December 18th, was/is the deadline any orders that come in after this point may not make it in time for Christmas. BUT HEY! If you live in Minneapolis or Saint Paul or anywhere and you'd like to drop by the studio please just give us a call (612-339-3345) and let us know when you'll be by and we'll take care of you. ^^ Back to Top HOLIDAY SHIPPING DEADLINES 12/02/08 Need something for the Holidays? Make sure we've got enough time to get it to you! If you are here in the States, you have until the December 18th to place your order. Our overseas customers will need to order by the 11th. Unfortunately Military Mail and orders to Africa and South America have already missed the holiday cutoff. ^^ Back to Top NO COAST CRAFT-O-RAMA 11/25/08 We will be selling our goods at this years No Coast Craft-o-Rama that takes place on Friday, December 5 and Saturday December 6th at the Midtown Global Market here in lovely Minneapolis. ^^ Back to Top BONUS! 11/21/08 Just so you know. If you happen to spend $30 (before shipping) on a few of our many products we will automatically throw in some extra goodies of our chosing! These random products make great gifts for people you don't like or relatives that hate you. Go for it! ^^ Back to Top STUDIO WARMING! PLEASE COME! 11/07/08 Apologies to you all for the informal, rambling message here but we really need to tell you something very important and time is of the essence (especially since it's Friday at 4:36PM.) As some of you may or may not know, we moved the Aesthetic Apparatus corporate headquarters over the summer and although the space is still not anywhere near presentable we have to as least christen this new space with a party or we never will. So we are going to have a studio warming party next weekend, Saturday November 15th. Honestly, you're probably just as excited to hear about this as we are as we've just now decided what time we're going to have it at. Oh, you want to know? How about you show up around 6:00PM. How does that sound? We will have: pony rides, go kart racing, power-wash-the-hobo prize games, zombie strippers, a Scientologist cake walk, a finger puppet show, free invisible ipods, free phantom TVs, free Nelson Mandela (dolls), fecal face painting, stickers, caricature artists (non union), survival craft projects, magnetic poetry slams, French Karaoke, Twizzler fights, a screening of Apocalips Now & Laters II, Broken Orca rides, free handshakes (vanilla only), tour of Santa's Village and we've also invited all your parents to come too so you can do all this AND catch up with mom and dad, because we know you never call them enough. OH, THERE WILL BE FOOD AND DRINKS AND THINGS OF THAT NATURE. FEEL FREE TO BLOG ABOUT THIS! OR INFORM PEOPLE VIA TELEPHONE! OR MOBILE PAGER! OR MORSE CODE! TELL THE WORLD WHAT IS ABOUT TO HAPPEN! DON'T LET IT PASS THEM BY! The new studio is at 2215 Snelling Avenue in Minneapolis. For you twin citizens do please note, this is NOT Snelling Ave in St. Paul. This is the Snelling Avenue in Minneapolis behind Coastal Seafood in Seward. Oh, you didn't know there was a Snelling Avenue in Seward? Neither did we until we moved here! Standing in front of our building you will feel like you're in the middle of nowhere but really you can come by car (there's actually parking here) you can take the light rail (we're two blocks from the Franklin Ave station), you can come by bicycle (we're two blocks from the greenway), you could even stumble over here from Tracy's Saloon over on Franklin Ave (we're two blocks from them too.) The possibilities are endless. Just make sure you're here. WHAT: Aesthetic Apparatus Studio Warming Extravaganza WHEN: Saturday, November 15, 2008 - 6PM WHERE: 2215 Snelling Ave, Minneapolis MN. 55404 WTF: FOOD, DRINKS, AESTHETIC APPARATUS PEOPLES Thanks so much. We love you. ^^ Back to Top WE WIN! EVERYONE WINS! 10/20/08 Oh hello! We're pleased to say that our New Pornographers poster + Weakerthans poster + Doomdrips t-shirts + Joel Larson photography promo all made it into Print magazine's 2008 Regional Design Annual! Also! There's a new interview with us up at Urban Art Warfare. Check it here: http://urbanartwarfare.com/blog/?page_id=267 ^^ Back to Top DANIEL JOHNSTON WINS A SILVER! 10/13/08 So, we were recently insanely honored to have our Daniel Johnston poster receive a silver medal in the Chicago Poster Biennial. With such an amazing line-up of international finalists we're amazed that we even made it in. Check out the posters and the other medalists HERE . ^^ Back to Top WE HAVE MOVED! 08/08/08 It's true. We have relocated and are pretty much up and kind of running now. The address to send us beer and stuffed animals is now "2215 Snelling Avenue South • Minneapolis, MN • 55404" ^^ Back to Top WE NEED A HOME 05/16/08 As the building that our studio is in has been sold--we will be vacating our downtown Minneapolis location in mid July. With that said--if anybody in the area knows of a studio space available, we could really use some leads. Who knows, maybe you've always wanted a bunch of drunken, screenprinting, designers in your basement or garage. ^^ Back to Top SHIPPING: THE NEW DEAL 05/02/08 Maybe not as prolific as FDR's New Deal, but none the less--just wanted to let you know that we are now employing new shipping and handling rates. For years we've had a blanket shipping price which has forced us to make some sacrifices on multiple item orders--so you may see an extra little bite in your shopping cart, but it's all in an effort to get you the best shipping experience possible. We are now able to offer ALL of our customers faster delivery times and package tracking when necessary. Thank you for all of your years of patronage--here's to many more. ^^ Back to Top MOVING TO A NEW HOST! 03/28/08 You may not care in the least but if you're reading this post we've moved our site over to a new host. This post is more for our use than yours. Sorry to have wasted your time so unnecessarily. We love you. ^^ Back to Top AA + BOB MOULD 03/18/08 Hey! We recently designed a t-shirt for one of our favorite musicians, Bob Mould! Check it out HERE! ^^ Back to Top AA KINDLING & LITTER-BOX-LINER SALE 02/06/08 The now almost famous Aesthetic Apparatus Kindling & Litter-box-liner Sale will offer the public a rare chance to buy SLIGHTLY damaged or misprinted posters (most people cannot tell what is wrong with them) for the AMAZINGLY STUPID low price of FIVE AMERICAN DOLLARS. These prints sell on the Aesthetic Apparatus website for $20. So, it is indeed a wonderful value and also gives music fans another chance to buy the poster they drunkenly forgot to pick up at the show and may now be sold out. And, of course, non crappy, full price prints will also be available along with art prints, t-shirts and random trinkets produced by Aesthetic Apparatus. Attendees on hand may also very likely witness the men of Aesthetic Apparatus be both physically and verbally abused by Grumpy?s owner, Tom Hazelmyer. What a treat! ^^ Back to Top GREAT TO BE 2008 01/08/08 We've made it to another year. They say 2008 is the year of the hobo. We sure hope so! In other news we survived 2007 and want to thank all of you for helping us out with your purchases and messages of love and hate. Very nice of you. Well, we do indeed have some new items available. There's some new posters and new Doomdrips stuff. OMGHOORAY. ^^ Back to Top HAPPY HOLIDAYS 12/18/07 Well the Holidays have come and now we are on our way out. If you haven't placed your orders for Aesthetic Apparatus Xmas Gifts you have missed the boat--or in this case the mail truck. Sorry--but the USPS just can't guarantee delivery before the Holidays as of the 17th of December. Thank you to all that made pre-holiday purchases, you managed to keep our mail room a very busy place. Those of you still making purchases feel free to continue to make our mail room busy--but know that you won't get those packages until after the Holidays. ^^ Back to Top HOLIDAY SHIPPING FUN 12/11/07 The holidays are fast approaching and as December slowly drifts away we will try as hard as possible to get orders into the hands of our loving customers. So, for our American friends you should really order anything by December 18th in order to receive an order in time for December 25th. International friends; you should really order on or before December 11th in order for us to "hopefully" get an order to you in time. Happy Holidays from the Aesthetic Apparatus shipping department. ^^ Back to Top ALL AA T-SHIRTS BACK IN STOCK! 11/30/07 Jump on over to the "products" section and then on to "merch" and you'll see we've reloaded our t-shirt cannons with a bunch of Aesthetic Apparatus t-shirts that have been sold out for quite some time. ^^ Back to Top NEW DOOMSKULL HOODIE NOW AVAILABLE! 11/30/07 Hoooooooboy! We just got in our "Doom Skull" hoodies and they are now available. What says "Happy Holidays" better than a dark gray hoodie with a skull on it? EH? Nothing! Oh, and the red "Doom Drop" hoodies are now back in stock. Eat em up in the "DOOM" section right now. ^^ Back to Top THE TEST PRINTS KEEP ON COMING! 11/20/07 Hey there buckaroo, pick yourself up off the curb. Don't be sad. So what if you missed out on that test print you wanted--we've just added 5 MORE to make you happy! Now get a move on before those are all gone too. Don't forget--Test Prints make great Holiday presents as well. ^^ Back to Top FREE MINI PRINT OFFER! 11/20/07 Any orders of $30 or more (excluding shipping) are eligible to a FREE mini-print we call "Ghost Mountain Children." REMEMBER! You MUST request the free mini print in the "comments" section when you're checking out. Otherwise you will not receive this magical item. And no one wants a tragedy such as that to happen, especially around the holidays. ^^ Back to Top COMM ARTS DESIGN ANNUAL 11/16/07 Have you checked out the latest Communication Arts Design Annual yet? If you did you might have seen some of our work. That's right, once again we have found our way into the hallowed design annual's 48th rendition. Thanks... We are pretty stoked about the whole thing too. We're no strangers to the pages of Comm Arts but it still warms our hearts to know that we are still considered relevant by at least a small committee of people. You can check out our award history in all its shiny glory in our press section. But we're not bragging or anything--you don't have to check it out. Just thought maybe you'd want to know that's all. ^^ Back to Top P.R.D.A. YEAH! 11/16/07 In a city full of amazing design professionals, Aesthetic Apparatus had a whopping four pieces recognized in Print magazine's 2007 Regional Design Annual. I know! we are just as shocked as you are--but it's like they say, "there's no accounting for taste." You can check out our amazing achievements as well as our regional contemporaries in the November/December issue of Print--at your newsstand NOW! ^^ Back to Top SOME POOPIE PAST PROJECTS 11/15/07 Out there on the internet somewhere is a livejournal blog about the most disgusting roommate on the entire planet. We don't suggest you go and search it out because just the photos alone will make you physically ill for hours, but let's just say there is some "dirty laundry" in there. On a (hopefully) not nearly as disgusting and (also hopefully) much more interesting note, we've been invited by the University of Minnesota to air our own soiled stories tonight at their ongoing lecture series Dirty Laundry put on by the Design Institute Student Board. We'll be telling stories of our worst and best projects ever. And it's free, so c'mon down and feel the stink! ^^ Back to Top WE HAVE UPDATED OUR LOOK! 11/12/07 The new website is here! The new website is here! That's right, we rocked our previous website for over five years and figured it was time for a slight upgrade. It ain't nothing much fancier but we tweaked some things that we hope might enhance your Aesthetic Apparatus interweb experience. A few key upgrades; an actually UPDATED portfolio, larger image previews, a whole bunch more chunks of news/bio/faq and junk. Yer gonna love it! ^^ Back to Top WE LIKE BOOK ARTS 11/06/07 Aesthetic Apparatus will be taking part in the 6th ANNUAL BOOK ARTS FESTIVAL the weekend of November 10th and 11th. We will be pedaling our wares just in time for the holiday season. Don't forget to get that High on Fire poster for Grandma! More information can be found at: www.mnbookarts.org. ^^ Back to Top THE METRO 100 10/06/07 Can you believe it? We tricked the fine people at METRO Twin Cities Metropolitan Magazine that we should be part of their "Essential Guide To Everything" (in the Twin Cities anyway). You can check out the article in our Press section. ^^ Back to Top