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We’re a small design/illustration group in Milwaukee with epic ideas. At Vinylville, the strength in our designs lie within simplicity. We find that the challenging part of design is not to over design. That’s why most of our art pieces are only one or just a few colors. Did we mention that all pieces are in vinyl? Ahh yes, vinyl is our choice of medium. All our pieces are designed on a mac and all our vinyl is carefully hand peeled.

In 2008 we booked our 1st ever art show without any art to show. We were given a 5 month time frame to fill up the walls before the day of the show. It was literally a blank canvas for us. At that time, had been on a 4-year hiatus from creating any true art. The only “art” that we were accustom to was found in the corporate design world. On our search for inspiration, we took what we knew and ran with it. We created our main series of the show, “The Takeover”, which explores the idea of creativity. We also explored various themes from childhood, like cassette tapes (see www.VinylvilleShop.com) and materialism which sparked the piece “Kid in You.”

The final series of art we created for the show is still probably one of our most successful to date, we created laptop decals which can be found at VinylvilleShop.com. Laptops are basically canvases to us. They are blank and just begging for a graphic. Because of the laptop decal series, we looked into opening a shop on Etsy. We opened our Etsy store on November 23, 2008. The very 1st design that we posted was titled “Plugged-in,” and we still sell it today.

Fast forward a few months later to when we concepted the “Snow’s Revenge” idea in April of 2009. It’s a visual play a familiar image in which we twisted it’s perception to a dark and interestingly evil character. Within that month we sketched, designed and tweeked the illustration to what we felt was close to perfection. We published and posted the “Snow’s Revenge” design for sale on May 12th, 2009. On September 9th, 2009 (9-9-9) we became the most talked about event in the world when our “Snow’s Revenge” design was ranked #1 on Digg.com!

In 2010 we launched www.VinylvilleShop.com. Here we released our line of t-shirts, with new designs to drop any day now. Seriously, we have stacks of new ideas and designs piled up. We are also currently working on Series 2 of the laptop decals, which will be released in the early part of 2011. Check-out the Vinylville Facebook page for a preview.

We strive on the pure passion to create and design. We are at the forefront of the vinyl art movement and one of the first in the world to use vinyl as an art medium. This year, we plan on taking vinyl art to another level. Here at Vinylville, anything can happen.


To see more fresh art & a new line of t-shirts check out:

www.VinylvilleShop.com