'Poster Show'


Through Dec. 31, Super 7

NO WONDER THIS city is mad for the stuff – John Pilsworth introduced the modern silk-screen process to San Francisco in 1914, and the art and the DIY worlds have never been the same. So let's honor this patron saint of the serigraph and do something new this holiday season: limited edition silk-screen prints for the whole family! Head to the Super 7 store in Japantown (by way of the newly reopened Kinokuniya Stationery and Gift for all your stationery needs – great stocking stuffers!) for the aptly named "Poster Show" (up through the end of the year) featuring original silk-screen art and concert posters by a lot of hot, hot, hot artists at great, great, great prices. Thank you, I would like one of Heather Amunn Dey's supercute, Marimekko-influenced Apple Birds ($40; a print of two birds perched inside a green apple). If that's out of stock, then I'd take one of Dey's Bird Trees ($40; a white bird sits atop a green tree, and a heart escapes its beak). It sings a song of love! A variation on the same theme is Dora Drimalas's Heart Breakout. The pixilated heart is breaking, Tetris-style, but we are not sad, because the print (white on red and only $30) is so lovely. Pair it with Jeff Dey's sad Fat Robot (again, only $40. Sheesh!) and you have a love no software program can fix. Combine both of those with Drimalas's Bike Love ($40) – a fixed-gear and a geared bike facing each other, a black heart blooming between the two – and you have love, San Francisco style! It's Valentine's Day in December. Yay! Your kid brother could spice up his walls with UNKL, Bwana Spoons, Chris Pew, or Jeremy Fish prints, all priced between $15 and $40. And for Mom? Elizabeth Azen's Vuitton's Forest. Nothing says love like "I spent $150 on you!" Call for hours, 1630 Post, SF. (415) 409-4700, www.super7store.com. (Katie Kurtz)

Love letters: katiejkurtz@gmail.com