David Schiller

David Schiller was a California music promoter and printer who set up the infamous Sparta Graphics studio in 1966. Schiller and Sparta Graphics worked with many of the great bands of the age, but were especially dominant on the music scene in San Francisco. A large portion of the concerts posters, album covers, fliers, and other printed paraphernalia that were produced for the Sea Francisco music scene in the late sixties came from Sparta Graphics. The West Fillmore in particular was famous for its psychedelic posters, and most of these came from the offices of Sparta Graphics. Schiller would either hire in illustrators for specific jobs or rely on the skills of his partner, artist Jim Michaelson.