A massive career retrospective on a contemporary illustrator-graphic designer.

From the publisher:

Few concert poster artists can post numbers like Jeffrey Everett: 400+ concert posters produced over a 20-year career. Now that award-winning body of work is being collected for the first time in an exquisitely produced hardcover that carefully reproduces Everett’s posters alongside his observations on his craft, career, and collaborations with artists such as Foo Fighters, Letters to Cleo, The Gaslight Anthem, and many, many more.

This hardcover book is 444 pages filled with sketches, stories, interviews, and over 350 award-winning posters.

The book measures 9 x 11.5 inches and can be used for home defense legally in 43 states. The book comes with an double-sided dust jacket, featuring a foreword by author Shawna Keeney, an Outro by Brian Fallon, a lengthy interview with the artist, multiple thoughts from the bands involved, plus advice and insight on working with bands and having a design career in the music industry.

Partial list of bands included:

A Day to Remember, Bouncing Souls, Decendents, Gaslight Anthem, Fucked Up, Wilco, Gossip, My Morning Jacket, Phish, Trey Anastasio, Built to Spill, Face to Face, X, Rollins Band, Say Anything, Saves the Day, The Used, Taking Back Sunday, Mastodon, Sparklehorse, The Ponys, Magnolia Electric Company, Gogel Bordello, Lou Reed, Frank Turner, Firewater, Electric Six, The Revival Tour, Against Me!, Mudhoney, Band of Horses, Alkaline Trio, New Found Glory, Paramore, Jawbreaker, Jawbox, and The Raveonettes.

Jeffrey Everett is a successful designer, illustrator, and author working outside of Washington, DC working under the moniker Rockets are Red for the last twenty years. He has created award-winning designs for bands such as Wilco, Social Distortion, Foo Fighters, The Decemberists, Flight of the Conchords, Gaslight Anthem, Lou Reed, Frank Turner, Rancid, Metric, The Bouncing Souls, A Day to Remember, and many, many more.

He is the recipient of gold and silver awards from The Art Directors Club, "best-in-categories" from the AdClub (Addys), included in multiple AIGA Fifty Shows from 2006 to present, and seen in variety of publications. His work has been stapled on walls of acclaimed rock clubs, inked into brave people’s skin, and framed in high-end galleries around the world. His work has sold in galleries in NYC, LA, Chicago, Boston, and of course, DC.