Baldwin St. Block Party Poster

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1995

Ann and I owned a duplex in a great old neighborhood in east central Madison, on the isthmus of land between Lake Mendota and Lake Monona.

There are a lot of reasons we loved our neighborhood. It's a short bike ride from downtown, a short 3 block walk gets you all the necessities of life (co-op grocery, video store, liquor store, and several good restaurants), and a couple of nice little parks and the lakefront are a couple of blocks in the other direction.

The best thing about the area, though, is the people who live there. We especially liked our neighbors on Baldwin St. Periodically someone on the street would declare a block party and invite everyone over to their house. In 1995 Ann and I decided to take our turn and host a party.

I threw this poster together to publicize the party. To make it I grabbed a digital camera and assembled patchwork panoramas of the two sides of the street. Then I pulled them into Illustrator and added the text and the cut-out street that runs across the center.

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The little image in the upper left is touting our porch floors, which I'd just finished sanding and staining.