About the Collection:
Soundscreen Design has curated an exclusive line of t-shirts, hoodies and tote bags featuring original designs from 3 studios for 9 prominent indie-rock artists. Brian Roettinger / Hand Held Heart’s exclusive design for Liars is featured on premium, custom fit, 100% organic cotton garments. This limited edition seasonal collection takes a fresh approach to traditional band merchandise in terms of both quality and design.

About the Designer:
Based in Los Angeles, Roettinger has done packaging and apparel bands such as No Age & Liars, he was recently nominated for the 2009 Grammy for Best Record Packaging as well as being named Rolling Stone Magazines’ “Best Album Cover Designer in 2008”. H3 is a design studio as well as record label, the label releasing artfully packaged records for Pretty Girls Make Graves, Blood Brothers, Chromatics, Orchid and John Wiese. Brian teaches design at CalArts, while serving as design director for SCI-Arc & LA’s Honor Fraser Gallery. Brian has designed monographs for Rosson Crow, Jason Rhoades, & Mark Licari, while currently working on the Hammer Projects 10 year retrospective catalogue for UCLA’s Hammer Museum, as well as monographs for artists Tomoo Gokita (Tokyo) and Kaws (New York). An exhibition of his work was recently displayed at LA’s Hope Gallery and Space 15 Twenty.

About the Band:
Liars are a three person band conceived in LA and born in New York. Angus Andrew, Aaron Hemphill and Julian Gross met while in school in California, relocating together to New York later on. Known for their open armed embrace of experimentation, Liars are often categorized as post punk, noise rock and dance punk. Their most recent release, the self-titled Liars (August 2007), was released by Mute Records, with whom they’ve been signed with since 2003.