Minc House was asked to participate in many aspects of the first annual Word X Word Festival in 2009. One the many tasks we were asked to tackle was that of t-shirt and merchandise design. The festival is a week-long, three venue festival located in downtown Pittsfield, and each of the artistic categories, written word, spoken word, and sung word, are performed in the one of the three venues. Hence, the event’s tag line “Written/Spoken/Sung”. Illustrator Jordan Skowron developed a linoleum block that depicted each of these categories: a typewriter (written), a man with a megaphone (spoken), and a bird in a cage (sung). In addition to the design, we also created large hand dyed muslin labels that had the date and complete festival line up printed. These labels were sewn into the limited edition t-shirts which were given to all pass holders and musicians. A very memorable keepsake, to say the least.