Danny J. Gibson is DJG Design. He collects things -- all kinds of things -- but mostly trash. Not trash as in kitschy stuff at yard sales, and not trash as in the carton that used to hold the milk he finished off this morning with his cereal. Trash as in stuff in trash cans. He's a janitor with artistic ambitions, and he transforms refuse from his office-cleaning jobs into collage-based flier art promoting bands such as Elevator Division, Laredo, Namelessnumberheadman and the People. Preferring a handmade, idiosyncratic aesthetic to a slicker, digital look, Gibson creates promotional materials that look sincere -- you can tell that a human being made them. And he isn't doing this on the side to make cash while he waits to get recognized as a painter or sculptor. This is what he wants to do; it's how he combines his love for music with his need to create in a way uniquely his own. None of this would matter if Gibson weren't talented, but he is -- abundantly so. We like the fliers for the shows he promotes as much as we enjoy the shows themselves.
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