'Cease & Desist' by Matt Gondek, 2025
Original promotional poster for the artist's video game collab. with Steam.
DesignerCon 2025 exclusive featuring the artist's 'Lil' Shit' character.
36 x 24 Inches
91.4 x 61 Centimeters
Offset lithograph on satin poster paper (available only to attendees of the show).
Edition of unknown size (Sold Out).
Matt Gondek's printed signature in white, bottom right.
Hand-signed by the artist in white paint pen bottom center.
ABOUT THE ART
Created as a special promotional poster for Matt Gondek’s 'Cease & Desist' video game collaboration with Steam and released exclusively at DesignerCon 2025, this vibrant offset lithograph captures the artist’s unmistakable fusion of street art, pop culture parody, and neon-soaked chaos. Centered around Gondek’s signature 'Lil’ Shit' character, the composition explodes with a cast of bootleg-inspired cartoon, comic, and gaming figures rendered in the artist’s trademark palette of electric pinks, acid yellows, glowing blues, and deep blacks. The phrase “Enter Bootleg Cartoons, Comics, and Video Games. Beat the Shit out of Everyone” references the anarchic tone of the game itself, while the title 'Cease & Desist' humorously nods to the legal gray area that has long surrounded appropriation-based pop art and underground fan culture. Produced only for attendees of the event and now sold out, the poster was printed in an unknown edition on satin-finish poster stock and later hand-signed by Gondek in white paint pen across the lower center.
Matt Gondek is an internationally recognized contemporary pop artist whose work reimagines familiar cartoon and entertainment icons through a lens of destruction, satire, and rebellion. Emerging from the street art scene, Gondek developed a global following through his “deconstructed” character paintings and murals, transforming nostalgic imagery into fractured, hyper-stylized compositions that critique consumer culture, media obsession, and intellectual property itself. His work has been exhibited worldwide and expanded into collectible vinyl toys, fashion collaborations, murals, and designer merchandise with brands including Disney, Netflix, and Medicom Toy.
Pieces like 'Cease & Desist' embody the artist’s ability to blend underground aesthetics, gaming culture, punk irreverence, and contemporary collectible art into imagery that feels both nostalgic and aggressively modern.