Sculpture · Machines · Spaceflight · Invention · Cities
Real things,
redrawn.
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 redraws it as a poster you can read from across the room.
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
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
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
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
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 redrew them so you can hang the birth certificate of a machine.
Series V · Cities
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
12 × 16 in
Price to be set
18 × 24 in
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24 × 32 in
Price to be set
Method
Nothing here is made up. It all happened, and now it hangs on your wall.
01
Find the real thing
Every plate starts from a real source that is free to use: a museum's open-access photograph, a NASA frame, an original patent sheet, a city's street data.
02
Redraw it in code
Each poster is its own program, written for that one subject. It rebuilds the subject from a handful of flat inks, a screen of halftone dots or thousands of drawn lines, and sets the type.
03
Print it
Nothing sits in a warehouse. Your plate is printed when you order it.
New plates by email
One email when a new plate or series is released. Nothing else.