Inspired by the advertising work of Tadanori Yokoo and the golden age album covers of Mati Klarwein and Pedro Bell, our work combines elements of science fiction, fantasy, and magic realism. The posters represent the legends of music and culture that have shaped our tastes, sounds, and attitudes. Each of our limited edition prints are designed using a mixture of screen printing, photocopying and digital scans from photos, magazines, rare catalogues, video cassettes, and album cover archives. The work is finalized using Photoshop & Illustrator, and titled with our own original font design.
SHIPPING
All our posters are carefully hand rolled, wrapped in paper, and packaged securely in a high quality, heavyweight tube.
PRICING
Our pricing reflects the time it takes to create each piece, the quality of paper on UV print 100lb. gloss text, and the ink used in this process. We also offer free shipping to Canada and U.S. customers.
SIZING
Most of our posters are 24” x 36” (71 x 92 cm) and 27” x 40” (68.58 x 101.6 cm) but are not shipped with frames. However, we have chosen these sizes so that customers can easily find frames that match from local art supply stores at a low cost.
NO NEED TO PAY FOR CUSTOM FRAMING! Unless you want to.
ECO-FRIENDLY
We use Greenguard Gold Certified Inks which have been scientifically proven to meet some of the world’s most rigorous, third-party chemical emissions standards that help to reduce indoor air pollution and the risk of chemical exposure
The GREENGUARD Gold standard includes health-based criteria for more than 360 VOCs and also requires lower total VOC emission levels to ensure that the products are acceptable for use in sensitive indoor environments.
PURCHASING
We have chosen Etsy as our selling platform to assure that your purchase payments are secure and that no sensitive card information is stored. Etsy supports Canada Post Tracked Packet to assure that your Third Atlantic order is safely posted with tracking. Additionally, all order information and communication is accessible through one easy-to-use interface
DJ MIXES
Music is, first and foremost, the main focal point. Our reputation is built on championing forward thinking and ever-evolving new music and rarities. We have made upwards of a hundred mixes or more in our lifetime. The ones featured here represent the best of the past 5 years and are a hotchpotch of what we call Scheming Funk, Boogie 3000, Caribbean New Wave, Plastic Soul, & Cyber Jazz. For the uninitiated we strive for something that sounds at once familiar and totally new.
RADIO SHOW Our new radio show called the “Third Broadcast” is hosted by Andycapp. It is a chance to highlight new music not necessarily focused on dance floor hits but rather in an intimate fashion to connect with our listeners and fans. Join us once a month for journey across multiple genres and releases from across the globe.
THE NAME
Third Atlantic came about as a fusion of two similar ideas. The first, a basic understanding of third culture kids, like us, whose relationships with many cultures is a valid place of belonging, even if one doesn’t feel rooted in one geographical place or ethnicity: a multi-perspectival outlook in which seeing the entire world as a foreign land, makes possible an originality of vision.
We are also inspired by author Paul Gilroy’s book “The Black Atlantic” where he describes a modern, cultural –political space for black cultural production that is not specifically African, American, Caribbean, or British, but rather a hybrid mix of all of these at once.
Although Gilroy’s book focuses on the fluid nature of Black identities, our own histories involve a transatlantic journey by our parents and grandparents who resided in the UK and later migrated to North America.
Taking these ideas and expanding within our creative expressions, the focus is on making art defined by a “third space” that at the present, is undefined, intangible, and is constantly shifting and morphing. We are very aware and deeply respectful of the way black culture has dramatically influenced our music tastes, style of dress, art direction, and ways we move on the dance floor. Over time, not only have the cultures of Latin America, The Middle East, Balkans, and South Asia slowly migrated into our music sets but also into our visual design.
We believe that our identities are not fixed or static. They are constantly constructed and reconstructed as we move across borders and mix with new cultures. People by nature want to move forward on an endless journey of self-discovery, which has no tangible place or time.
