Pittsburgh Steelers Gameday Poster | Pittsburgh Steelers - Steelers.com
The Pittsburgh Steelers, in collaboration with Commonwealth Press, are releasing 9 gameday posters, one for each home game during the 2024 season, and one to commemorate the entire season! Local artists sourced by Commonwealth Press will design each poster to commemorate the individual game. A limited number of posters will be available for purchase on game day at the Steelers Pro Shop.
All gameday poster proceeds will benefit Artists Image Resource located in Pittsburgh.
ABOUT THE BENEFICIARY: Artists Image Resource (AIR) is a laboratory designed to serve artists, educators, and the community. AIR creates an exciting and dynamic learning environment that fosters experimentation, individuality, and peer mentorship by bringing established and emerging artists together in its print studio and exhibition space on Pittsburgh's Northside. AIR's primary activities are to initiate and facilitate projects with professional artists and create spaces where artists, students and the public interact.
2024 Gameday Posters
Week 11: Steelers vs. Ravens
Bio: Abby Winkler is an illustrator living in Pittsburgh, PA. In 2011, she graduated from Edinboro University of Pennsylvania with a BFA in studio art. Although her background is in painting, she gravitated towards illustration and its ability to use drawing as an educational tool. Her background as a fine artist initiated her love of color and composition, and her experience as a commercial artist sparked an interest in hand-lettering and vintage-style graphics.
Her favorite projects to work on allow her to bring her individual style to help tell someone's story, or to explain the significance of beloved places. Since 2017, she has been steadily working on a personal illustration project called 100 Days of Pittsburgh (#100daysofpittsburgh on Instagram), where she illustrates 100 people, places and landmarks connected to Pittsburgh. This has been invaluable in finding her creative voice and personal style, and has allowed her to work with local clients who have a shared interest.
Abby strives to create illustrations that inform in an approachable and fun way, using joyful color palettes and inventive lettering styles. Her specialties are portraits, hand-lettering, and architecture. Everything is drawn by hand with a pen, usually a Micron fineliner. She adds color digitally in Photoshop, or sometimes applies it traditionally with watercolor or gouache. Also, she likes to scan in textures made by hand to layer within her illustrations in order to further incorporate a handcrafted touch. This marriage of analog and digital techniques is something that keeps her endlessly interested and helps to create the most dynamic images possible.
Week 8: Steelers vs. Giants
Bio: Wayno® is a cartoonist, illustrator, and musician, who lives and works in Pittsburgh.
He is the daily cartoonist for Bizarro, distributed by King Features Syndicate to more than 350 newspapers worldwide. He has been published in underground and alternative comics since the 1990s and has enjoyed a long career as a freelance illustrator, working with such clients as The New Yorker, Nickelodeon, Entertainment Weekly, Warner Music Group, The London Guardian, and The New York Times.
Wayno also serves as the chair of the Pittsburgh Chapter of the National Cartoonists Society and is a member of the United Cartoon Workers of America and the Pittsburgh Society of Illustrators.
Week 7: Steelers vs. Jets
Bio: Mike Budai is an illustrator and screen printer working in Pittsburgh, Pa. He began working in screen shops in the mid 90's while attending Edinboro University for Animation and Printmaking. Upon completing college, he began volunteering at Artists Image Resource (A.I.R.) in 2001 working in various mediums, primarily screen printing. Since then, he has created hundreds of silk-screened posters for concerts, logos and illustrations for businesses, non-profits and organizations, and has shown his print and illustration work in galleries all over the US, including Mondo in Austin, Tx., Rotofugi in Chicago Il., and Gallery 1988 in Los Angeles.
Week 5: Steelers vs. Cowboys
Bio: Brian Dumm is a professional artist and art educator from Ebensburg, Pennsylvania where he works and lives with his wife and two daughters. Brian is represented by Storybook Arts Inc. in New York, and his award-winning illustrations have been featured in over a hundred publications globally since 2010. He has completed artwork for such notable clients as Scholastic, McGraw-Hill, and the Sheetz corporation.
Brian earned a Bachelor of Arts degree from Penn State University in 2000 and a master's degree in Drawing and Painting from Indiana University of Pennsylvania in 2013. His fine-arts drawing/paintings have shown in galleries through Pennsylvania, Ohio, and Maryland.
Brian is a member of the Pittsburgh Society of Illustrators, The Allied Artists of Johnstown, and the Pennsylvania Art Education Association. Brian's work is largely illustrative, having been inspired by his earliest visual passions for comic book art, skateboard graphics, and album covers.
Brian is also an avid musician, golfer, Pittsburgh sports fan, and "self-proclaimed pizza connoisseur".
You can view more of Brian's work online at www.briandumm.com
Week 3: Steelers vs. Chargers
Bio: Hi, my name is Matt Spahr. I'm one of the local artists selected to design one of this year's Steelers home game posters.
I grew up during one of the most exciting era of Steelers football, the 1970's and early 80's. Along with being a huge Pittsburgh sports fan, I was also very much into comic books and skateboarding. From an artistic perspective, I've always been the kind of guy who'd rather read a copy of Vaughn Bodé's Cheech Wizard than stand in a museum, staring at paintings that, more times than not, mean nothing to me. Over the years, not much has changed in that regard. I still love comics, skateboarding, graffiti, rock music and smash mouth Steelers football.
Some of the fine folks that I've had the pleasure of working with are: Condado tacos (Team Lead, 12 locations, from here to Huntsville, AL), Millie's Ice Cream, Richard DeShantz Restaurant Group and Pyrotecnico Fireworks, just to name a few.
I also work as a freelance illustrator when I'm not up in a scissor lift painting murals. I'd like to mention that working on this project has been a blast, and it's my hope that fans like the poster as much as I liked making it.
2024 Season Poster
Bio: Nina Zivkovic is the Design Director of Ready®, one of the fast-growing sports nutrition brands in America. She has had the pleasure of working with the Pittsburgh Steelers & Commonwealth Press for three years on their incredible Game Day Poster Series. Nina is a member of the Pittsburgh Society of Illustrators and loves to continually engage with new and upcoming designers as a mentor and board advisor for universities and vocational schools.
She has utilized both her award-winning graphic design and illustration skills with an array of local and international clients like Women Who Rock™, Melinda and the Night Sky, Stage AE, Primanti Bros., P3R Marathon, Anti-Flag, Giant Eagle, Rostrum Records, PLB Sports & Entertainment, Alan Ritchson, and many more.
Nina's style is inspired by her love of art nouveau, comic books, movie posters, and music. She dives deep into symbolism and emotions when crafting her concepts while listening to curated playlists, tying her graphic design degree with her passion for illustration and creativity to conjure unique and fantastical creations, whether minimalistic or complex. She is an avid football and sports fan and loves that she is able to bring together her personal and career passions in her role at Ready®.