Seripop refers to the art duo Chloe Lum and Yannick Desranleau, who have collaborated on

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s, prints,

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, and installations. The name Seripop is short for ''Serigraphie Populaire'', French for "Popular Screenprinting". Seripop is based in

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, Quebec, Canada.

Biographies

Lum and Desranleau met in the underground

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scene of Montreal, eventually forming their first band Electric End. They began making their hand-printed posters as a way to attract people to their shows, but then eventually dropped out of art school in the early 2000s to make tour posters for six bands' entire tours, resulting in 25 to 45 posters for each band. Both are graduates of Montreal's

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. The two are also members of noise rock quartet,

AIDS Wolf __NOTOC__ AIDS Wolf was a Canadian noise rock band, founded in Montreal in 2003, by the graphic arts team of Chloe Lum (aka Special Deluxe) and Yannick Desranleau (aka Hiroshima Thunder), otherwise known as Seripop. They were joined by Myles Brosco ...

, which has since stopped playing shows.

Exhibitions

''What Do Stones Smell Like in the Forest?'' – Latitude 53, Edmonton, Canada ''MAC Collection: Chloë Lum & Yannick Desranleau'' – Musée d'art contemporain de Montréal, Canada. Curator: Marie-Eve Beaupré. ''The Face Stayed East and the Mouth Went West (elements)'' at Galerie Hugues Charbonneau ''Certainty: Two Times Not Really'' at Struts Gallery

Awards

They won the 2007 Juno Award for CD/DVD Artwork Design of the Year for designing the cover of The Looks album by MSTRKRFT.

References

External links

Seripop website
{{authority control Canadian graphic designers Juno Award winners