All Star Press studio joins up with Chicago’s pro teams to bring sports, art together

CHICAGO (CBS) — If you happen to be a sports activities admirer in Chicago, you have in all probability observed the perform of All Star Push – even if you may perhaps not know it.

As CBS 2’s Matt Zahn claimed Saturday night, All Star Press has teamed up with our professional teams to do some pretty great stuff – bringing the worlds of sports and art together.

“I have often been a actually massive sports particular person. Art and sports won’t generally mix,” stated All Star Press’ Zissou Tasseff-Elenkoff.

But Tasseff-Elenkoff and All Star Press are doing their most effective to modify that – with almost everything from Bulls hats to a poster series for the Bears featuring a large caped bear stomping as a result of a city, and T-shirts for the White Sox. 

They look to be building the combine work.

“The entire position of undertaking it was to form of improve that landscape – and in its place of it getting, you know, the exact same stuff you would see – guys hitting a ball, or just type of the typical sort of like lodge art, to an extent – shifting that and earning it extra culturally related,” Tasseff-Elenkoff said. When a manufacturer trusts us to form of do anything with their logo and their shades and produce anything which is completely new, which is genuinely the exciting aspect.”

All Star Press’ crossover into the sporting activities planet started with a connection with the Bulls. They are now in their sixth calendar year doing the job with each other, and have established 30 unique hat styles. Just one has the emblem bull with smoke blowing from its nose, one more provides the bull some Picassoesque eyes.

“I see the hats every day practically – like you go out. And we did the math – you will find about a quarter of a million hats out in the city suitable now,” Tasseff-Elenkoff mentioned. “It can be so enjoyable to just see them, and persons delight in them, and they use them with pride.”

When Tasseff-Elenkoff does some of the function himself, he also selects area artists for jobs. Just one this sort of artist is Liz Flores.

“My work is pretty figurative, and has an summary component to it – and so how do you make it so that sports activities fans continue to know what it is?” Flores reported.

Flores made a person of the 6 designs for the White Sox summertime T-shirt series, supplied absent to lovers at pick video games. Her “Los White Sox” design ties into Latino Heritage Month.

“I desired the hues to be a minimal punchy and like, exciting, for the reason that it is Latino Heritage Month, and I required it to be pretty celebratory,” she stated. “The condition on the again – I desired it to have variety of an ode to like a 90s classic Sox shirt, and I believe we arrived up with a genuinely amazing style and design.”

You can very easily see the enthusiasm Flores experienced for the venture. Section of that is because the White Sox necessarily mean a large amount to her and her household.

“I’m a massive Sox enthusiast. My family members are huge Sox supporters. So I genuinely felt the force. Like I was like, ‘I’m so fired up.’ And then I was like, ‘I’m also genuinely nervous about this – wait!'” Flores reported. “You know the crew indicates a good deal to so a lot of persons. I believe that’s when you have just got to recall to remain legitimate to you and your fashion, and your model, and like what you want to express – and all the things else just falls into location.”

That location is where sporting activities and art converge.

“Sports has a powerful group. Art has a robust local community. I consider there is a lot of overlap in what you happen to be trying to do, is like bringing people today alongside one another observing neighborhood artists be supported by a local workforce. I assume that’s completely superb,” Flores stated. “Doing the job with a sporting activities group far too – it helps make art additional available to people. Probably a gallery may be overwhelming for men and women to appear to, but a sporting activities game may possibly not be, appropriate? And so they have the opportunity to gather a piece of your operate in a unique way.”

All Star Press is located at 2775 N. Milwaukee Ave.