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Making rock posters was public art 20 years ago. IвЂ™ve always treated posters as artwork that functioned as posters. The intent is to give perspective into something you havenвЂ™t thought about, to make you go somewhere you havenвЂ™t gone, looking at the city with fresh ideas.ДЇor 20 years, I devoted a lot of time towards making rock вЂ™nвЂ™ roll posters - everybody from Bob Dylan to the Black Keys and Gillian Welch.

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We cover things like the hangouts of Waylon, Willie & the Outlaws, where the best urban fishing holes are, or the figures and venues that made up NashvilleвЂ™s dubious history with professional wrestling.

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Or, we might be working on the вЂњNashville Sight Seer,вЂќ a series of pamphlets where a local writer teams up with an illustrator to create a map and a short write-up of one aspect of our cityвЂ™s history. Each month we meticulously rearrange the piece into a new image or pattern. It wouldnвЂ™t be unusual for you to find us rearranging a large installation, like the one we did at Pinewood Social, where our art is featured as wraps on thousands of cans.

We just finished up a year-long assembly of thousands of precisely folded, translucent, letterpressed origami boxes, which we installed as a вЂњcloud wallвЂќ at Barista Parlor Golden Sound. Letterpress is really popular now, but when I got into it, it wasnвЂ™t. IвЂ™ve always loved history and, at the time, it seemed like a dying art. He passed away at a young age, right as I was getting out of college, and his daughter passed on his personal letterpress collection to me.

What inspired you to start a letterpress studio?Д«ryce McCloud: I became interested because of my uncle who was a historian of industrial technology. Bryce is also a big believer in the power of public art and enjoys getting involved in projects that turn community space into places that bring joy and wonder into the everyday world.

Owner Bryce McCloud creates his fair share of wedding invitations and commissioned posters, but he specializes in making the unusual happen, as seen through his oversized murals, intricate laser cuttings and memorable art installations. Isle of Printing is inking up Nashville (and abroad) in a unique way - at music venues and restaurants, on candy wrappers and through collaborative projects with artists and record labels.