Dan Stiles is an American artist and designer, known for his rock posters. He is based in Portland, Oregon, originally from Ann Arbor, Michigan. He attended the University of Oregon in Eugene, later noting that he had "used college as an excuse to move to the Northwest" to pursue music and snowboarding. After several years working in the Pacific Northwest he moved to San Francisco in 1996 to study Design at the California College of the Arts (CCA). He lived and worked in San Francisco for 7 years, before returning to Portland, Oregon in 2001.
While at UO, he began his career as an artist by drawing rock posters. Soon, Stiles learned how to silkscreen posters and moved into digital illustration. Stiles has since remarked on how digital creation is a more freeing process. "With a computer... you can draw all of this stuff and then... throw [it] out, keep going," he remarked in an interview with WeMake.
After gaining notoriety with his poster art, Stiles attracted the attention of brands like Nike, AT&T, Birch Fabrics, IBM, and the X Games. He has also worked on projects for bands like Band of Horses, Feist, Death Cab for Cutie, Vampire Weekend, Hot Chip, and Arcade Fire.
In 2015 powerHouse Books released a monograph of his work entitled One Thing Leads to Another. Stiles has also authored several books with POW! the children's division of powerHouse Books. These include Put on Your Shoes!, Baby's First Book Blocks, and Today I'm Going to Wear...
Stiles utilizes colorful geometric shapes in a style that has been described as "punk rock modern" and "pop folk." He is usually allowed a fair amount of creative control in his work; Stiles told WeMake that bands often tell him to "just do something cool." According to Stiles, each of his posters has its own significance, as he views them as "his children."
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| Dan Stiles |
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| Mars Attacks, Created for Gallery 1988's Crazy 4 Cult show |
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| Fiest Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall, Portland, OR. November 6 2007 |
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| Deadmau5 Red Rocks Amphitheatre Aug 30, 2011 |
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| Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros - Artist Proof Leeds, UK, July 16 2012 |
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| Of Monsters And Men, Boulder Theater, 2012 |
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| Singur Ros concert at Paramount Theatre, Seattle WA, August 8 2012 |
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| Tame Impala Boulder Theater, Co., October 26 2013 |
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| Arctic Monheys Artpark Outdoor Amphitheater, June 18, 2014 |
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| The Knife - Fillmore, Denver CO., April 21 2014 |
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| The 1975 - Red Rocks Amphitheate, Morrison CO., May 2, 2015 |
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| Thievery Corporation: Gasmask - Red Rocks Morrison, CO., May 13, 2016 |
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| Wilco - with Joan Shelley, The Moore Theatre, Seattle, Sept. 2-3, 2016 |
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| Air, Greek Theatre, June, 25 2017 |
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| Grizzly Bear, The Moore Theatre, Seattle, WA., December 8, 2017 |
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| Pond: The Empty Bottle - Chicago, IL, May 3 2017 |
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| Tom Petty - Joe Walsh, Red Rocks CO., May 29 & 30, 2017 |
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| Pixies - Masonic Temple, Bend, OR., August 5, 2018 |
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| Arctic Monkeys - Arena Birmingham, Birmingham, UK, September 16, 2018 |
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| Blondie - Osheaga Music and Arts Festival, Montreal, Que. Canada, August 4, 2018 |
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| Hollywood Vampires Fillmore Auditorium, Denver, CO, May 14, 2018 |
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| Arctic Monkeys Mexico City, 2019 |
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| Arctic Monkeys: Oz Qudos Bank Arena, Sydney, Australia, 2019 |
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| Death Cab For Cutie Fox Theatre, Boulder CO, August 7, 2019 |
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| Moe Stanley Theater, Utica, NY, December 30 and 31, 2019 |
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| Tame Impala - Lawn at White Oak Music Hall, Houston, TX, October 5, 2019 |
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| Toro Y Moi - The Neptune, Seattle, WA, January 19 & 20, 2019 |
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| Hawthorn & Child, book cover for Granta Books |
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| MR. Kafka Book cover for New Directions |
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| Old Navy: Seattle poster for a select group of flagship cities. |
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| Old Navy: Shamghai poster for a select group of flagship cities. |
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| Old Navy: Tokyo poster for a select group of flagship cities. |
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| Original Stormtrooper Beer packaging |
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| POP Culture packaging |
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POP Culture packaging
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| Revolution Street Book cover for Oneworld Publications |
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| Sola Rosa Magnetics packaging |
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| Sonic Youth at the Moore Theater |
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