Who: Landry Print Co.
Where: Denton Bravo for: Embracing their adopted hometown and using that Denton pride to create art More info: landryprint.co
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hen graphic designer Jude Landry moved to Denton with his wife, Alisha, to take a job at UNT in 2014, the couple was immediately charmed by their new hometown. They came up with the phrase and design for their “Oh no you Denton” products because, Jude says, “All great cities have cool art about them — New York, San Francisco, Chicago — you go to any city and there’s great locally themed art, so we wanted to be part of that.”
CLEAN AND GEOMETRIC
Jude and Alisha Landry
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They were shocked by how well the products went over with locals. He says the “Oh no you Denton” products “immediately took off. We figured people would like it, but it sold way more than we ever would have imagined.” Jude had been selling prints and posters in his online store since around 2010. Today, he also sells at the DIME Store in Denton. He and Alisha have since grown Landry Print Co. to include stickers, T-shirts and other products with Jude’s clean, structured style. “I’m influenced by graphic designers who illustrate
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because — and this is a broad statement — but they tend to have a certain clean and geometric aesthetic that I’m drawn to that is a little more rigid than the loose painterly-ness of traditional illustrators. I like grids. I like structure. I like when something looks really well put together and considered. I find it beautiful and aesthetically pleasing.”
EMBRACING LIMITATIONS
He picked up the craft of screen-printing in graduate school while working as a designer at a T-shirt shop, and that medium has also influenced his designs. “Any time you work in a certain medium as an artist, you want to embrace the
Landry’s Denton–related designs proved to be unexpectedly popular.
limitations of the techniques or materials you’re using. For example, every color has to be printed one layer at a time, so I limit my colors to usually two or three. I like the limitations of color and size. Like, none of my artwork runs to the edge of the page because I can’t print that big, so there are these little built-in limitations that get incorporated into the art. You do it over and over again, and it becomes kind of a signature in some way, but it’s not always intentional.” Landry Print Co.’s current designs include a poster of Denton’s hypothetical subway system, colorful stylized posters of the Denton Courthouse, “Tex’ Me” Texas shirts and more. —Kimberly Turner
Photo courtesy of Jude Landry
What: T-shirts, stickers, posters and custom prints