More gig posters for scientists

Here is the latest rock poster-inspired flier for a science lecture at the UNC Chapel Hill Biology Department. Make sure you check out all of them. They're hand screenprinted by The Merch, a Chapel Hill design group "influenced by skateboard culture, underground music, and contemporary design."
"Gig Posters for Scientists"

• Biology lecture "gig posters"

• [Anonymous]

  The curious neo-Nazi background of the inventor of Sea Monkeys: http://weekendamerica.publicradio.org/display/web/2007/05/05/the_twisted_history_of_sea_monkeys/ (Did I first read about this on boingboing?)

• [Anonymous]

  Hmmm. Looks FAMILIAR:

  http://www.seamonkeyworship.com/images/ulguidseam.gif

• [Yep]

  Look, brine shrimp!

• [GuidoDavid]

  I tried to make the announcements to my dissertation as funny as I could, so the first had part of the code in green on the background, Matrix-like, the second had a Trypanosome over the HAL camera (as I want to use a computer to find a way to kill the parasite), and the defense poster had Eddie from Iron Maiden in the Number Of The Beast, but holding a Trypanosome, because one of the findings of the model was a ratio of 2/3, 0.666 for a metabolic flux.

• [Ben]

  Have y’all seen the film version of “Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs”? In the beginning of the film, the young version of the protagonist is in his bedroom, which is plastered with posters of various scientists of note. I believe there’s even one that says “Nikola Tesla, Rockstar Scientist.”

• [pidg]

  Mmmmm Futura Extra Bold Condensed!! Nom.

• [Phikus]

  Monkey Sea Monkey Doo

• [Chevan]

  It’s neat to see these get more attention! I work in that building, and I’ve always thought those seminar posters are fascinating. They’re definitely more enticing than the normal plain text, center-justified, with a single small picture format I see so often; there’s been a few I wanted to go to just because I liked the poster so much.

• [Church]

  Totally derivative. :P

  • [Anonymous]

    Why? I think they’re really cool. People just bash stuff automatically

    • [Church]

      I think it’s cool too. But under current copyright laws it’s problematic. You’re no longer allowed to climb on the shoulders of giants.

      • [Chevan]

        Wouldn’t advertising for a university seminar/lecture which (at least here at UNC) is free and open to the public fall under the educational purposes part of fair use?

      • [Anonymous]

        Looks like they got permission:
        “Classic Sea Monkeys image repurposed with permission of the Transcience Corporation. Thanks, George!”
        from http://www.flickr.com/photos/biologyposters/5328137313/