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Ten years of music. Ten years of posters. Ten years of collaboration. JDK and Higher Ground are celebrating a decade of memories and progression: 121 posters, 49 designers, 102 bands, 135 nights—and coming this September, one book to capture it all: _____ of 1500.

Backstage, onstage, out in the crowd, and on the walls: since the beginning, JDK has given expression to the music and helped to define the Higher Ground experience. Now that ten-year history will be told with stories, photographs, and art (including alternate poster designs never before on display) by the designers and musicians who made it happen.

Join us September 5, 2008, from 5 to 11 p.m., as we mark the launch of _____ of 1500 and commemorate Higher Ground's tenth anniversary. This event coincides with Burlington's sixteenth-annual Art Hop, and JDK's Sanctuary Artsite and Iskra Print Collective will be among the more than ninety venues in the South End opening their doors during this popular late-summer festival.

Concert posters and photography will be featured in the upstairs Artsite gallery. The book-launch party will be downstairs, replete with a cash bar, live music, and screen-printing demonstrations.

Copies of _____ of 1500 will be available for purchase at the launch party, as well as at Higher Ground and iskraprint.com.

Wednesday, June 4th, at 6:00 PM JDK Design, 47 Maple St., Burlington, Vt.

Images. They transcend time and our inner space. The memory markers they create in us, built on the cornerstones of context and idiosyncratic chaos, never cease to amaze. The perceptual intersections are what make the art world so very compelling; even with historical context and heavy post-rationalization of classics, we still build our own unique little bridges in time to who we are and how we see from what once was.

PJ de Villiers makes pen and ink monochromatic studies of classical masterpieces - as he draws lifelines uniquely from his heart to present images as a parallel retrospective of his life.

Please join PJ for our latest First Thursday experience (which is actually Wednesday because summer kickball season has begun), to hear his thoughts on his newest work, his process and perspective, and to have a dialog with PJ and others about the lifelines you see and the art you love.

Please join us and bring a piece of artwork that has been an inspiration to you.

As Bob Dylan bird once told me “I’ll let you be in my dreams if I can be in yours.” Here’s a little present from JDK to celebrate spring. Download the Mac version, or the Windows version. Enjoy.