Wednesday, September 01, 1999
T-shirt launches Tall Stacks poster
BY OWEN FINDSEN
The Cincinnati Enquirer
Poster shows Cincinnati skyline in 1880
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It began as a T-shirt and ended up as the poster for Tall Stacks '99.
“We thought people would be wearing it,” says graphic designer Kelly Kolar. “But Tall Stacks needed a poster and didn't have a design, so when they saw this they picked it for the poster.”
Ms. Kolar's studio, Kolar Design, also designed the logos, tickets, signs and merchandising for Tall Stacks '99 and all previous Tall Stacks.
“Tall Stacks is part of my life. This is my fourth one (as designer),” Ms. Kolar says.
Back in 1988, when Tall Stacks began, Ms. Kolar was a student at the University of Cincinnati's College of Design, Architecture, Art and Planning. Her winning design proposal for the first gathering of steamboats launched her career.
The poster shows the Cincinnati skyline in 1880, with two boats in the foreground and a crowd of steamers lined up at the river's edge.
“I don't how to describe it,” Ms. Kolar says. “It's not a drawing or a painting or a photograph, exactly. It began as an old wood engraving, made from a photograph.
“We found it in the collection of the Cincinnati Public Library. We photographed the print, scanned it into a computer, made it into line art, drew into it, gave it layers and layers of colors. So is it a photograph, an engraving, a drawing, a collage? It's all of that.
“I love taking an old image and giving it a new life,” Ms. Kolar says.
The Tall Stacks '99 poster is 20-by-28 inches and costs $12. To order, call (800) 331-0989. Also available at Fabulous Frames, Frame & Save and Cincinnati Museum Center store, Union Terminal.
Tallstacks Web site
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