Sculpture · Machines · Spaceflight · Invention · Cities
Original art
of real things.
Every print starts with something that actually exists: a statue in a museum, a car that left a factory, a rocket that left the planet. Hard Proof turns it into original art, made to be read from across the room.
Proof · Plate 09Apollo 11
Saturn V SA-506 · 16 July 1969
The collections
5 series so far. Each one takes a different kind of real thing, and every plate gets a palette of its own.
Series I · Sculpture · Special edition
The Pantheon
Why I made these
These are real statues. Real hands carved them for emperors, temples and tombs, and they have outlasted every one of them. Stand in front of one and it still wins the staring contest. I wanted to pull them off the pedestal and give them the poster a headliner gets: loud colour, a halo, and a name you can read from across the room.
Series II · Machines · Limited edition
Horsepower
Why I made these
These are real cars that left a real factory. Somebody shaped every line of them on purpose, and decades later you still turn your head when one drives past. I wanted each one parked in front of its own name, with the numbers that made it famous printed underneath.
Series III · Spaceflight · Limited edition
Liftoff
Why I made these
These launches happened. People sat on top of that much fire and went. I wanted the posters to feel like the last second of the countdown: loud, simple and impossible to look away from.
Series IV · Invention · Open edition
Drawing Board
Why I made these
Before it was in your pocket, it was a drawing filed in an office. These are the actual sheets and layouts, the moment an idea became a thing with a number on it. I made posters of them so you can hang the birth certificate of a machine.
Series V · Cities · Open edition
Street Level
Why I made these
Every line on these maps is a real street. No artist decided where they go; a few hundred years of people did. I just gave each city the ink it deserves.
Sizes
Every plate.
Three sizes.
- Printing
- Made to order, one at a time
- Landscape plates
- Same three sizes, turned sideways
- Open edition
- Printed to order, with no limit on how many are made.
- Limited edition
- Numbered, and limited to 250 of each plate. Later editions may follow and will be marked as such.
- Special edition
- Signed and numbered, and limited to 50 of each plate. Later editions may follow and will be marked as such.
12 × 16 in
From $35.00
18 × 24 in
From $55.00
24 × 32 in
From $85.00
Method
Nothing here is made up. It all happened, and now it hangs on your wall.
There is no formula for these. Each plate is worked out on its own, by eye, until the subject looks the way it deserves to. Some come together quickly. Some never make it out of the workshop.
It starts with a real thing
A statue in a museum, a NASA frame, an original patent sheet, a city's streets. The source is real and free to use. Choosing it, and deciding what about it is worth a wall, is the first part of the work.
Each one gets its own treatment
A marble face asks for something different from a rocket on the pad. Every plate is drawn for its subject alone, with its own inks and its own kind of mark: halftone dots for one, thousands of fine lines for another. The subject decides.
It gets redrawn until it's right
The first version is never the one you see. Plates are redrawn, recoloured and reset many times over, and a whole series is held back if it isn't there yet. Nothing is released because it was due.
When a plate is finished, it is printed for you when you order it. Nothing sits in a warehouse.
New plates by email
One email when a new plate or series is released. Nothing else.