Artists Behind "Relax Attack" Jazz Series Posters Honored
 
Being in the business of cocktail reportage, we often lose sight of the fact that The Whistler, one of our favorite places in town to get a drink, is also an avid patron of the arts. Musicians take to the stage nearly every night, and visual artists are regularly remaking the storefront gallery. Heck, they even run their own record label. We were happily reminded of us this recently by a bit of news coming out of London, of all places.
 
Creative Review, an arbiter of taste in the world of design and visual communications, selected The Whistler's poster publicizing its ongoing Relax Attack Jazz Series for inclusion in the U.K.-based magazine's prestigious "Annual" issue, published each May. The ingenious poster concept -- which combines a static, printed background and spontaneous, hand-spray-painted text -- had been created by Plural, a Chicago-based graphic design studio.
 
To find out more details, we posed a few questions to Jeremiah Chiu, one of Plural's co-founders. Chiu discussed the nod from Creative Review, the inspiration behind the Relax Attack poster, and Plural's other major project with the bar, designing its free newsprint publication, the Whistler Monthly. And, of course, we'd be remiss to not talk cocktails at least a little...
 
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