Hey, check out these new posters we made especially for you, the proud citizens of beautiful Eau Claire, Wisconsin. We were inspired by a series of similar posters based on large American cities and communities. Knowing a town the size of Eau Claire would never receive the same kind of artistic treatment, we took it upon ourselves to research, design, and produce the posters – which we now make available to you, dear friends.

What you see is the City of Eau Claire, divided up into its neighborhoods/areas/zones/etcetera and labeled accordingly via typographic trickery. We worked with the city to figure out boundaries and official plat book names, but we also consulted a team of raging townies to suss out the best colloquial monikers. Then we set our design monkey gorilla to the tedious work of re-mapping Eau Claire – in words. (See detail images below.)

After that, we employed the deft hands of Ambient Vision Inks of Menomonie to screen print the designs onto hefty, 100-pound card-paper produced from mighty trees harvested right here in America’s Midwest. Each poster is 18” by 24” in size and available in three color schemes: white on black, dark blue on blue, and the glorious red/white/blue/black on natural.

Soon they’ll be available for purchase upon line, but for now you can buy them at The Local Store* and possibly frame. Simply head on down to 17 S. Barstow Street in summery downtown Eau Claire to gaze upon them with your discerning (and lovely) eyeballs. You should have plenty of fun locating favorite locales and discovering interesting place-names you were previously un-privy-to. As of this post, we're still finalizing prices, but you can expect something in the $25 range.

*The Local Store (at the Volume One World Headquarters) is open Monday–Saturday, late on Thursdays (detailed hours).

 

Kind of blue.

 

While a river runs through them, these colors don't run.