Gig Posters - Cat Power

Designer - The Heads of State

Again, this is very simple. Two colours plus stock. It looks like the type has been screen printed over the top of the wallpaper-esque pattern in the background. 

This is more image based... the focus on the little girl and the distorted type around her. 

Gig Posters - Calexico

Designer - The Small Stakes

Now this is a brilliant piece of typography. Stunning, in fact.

The important text (the name of the band) stands out. This will attract the audience's eye. It is decorative type, but both readable and legible and beautifully intricate. 

I am seeing this with a lot of gig posters... they really do both grab the eye, and seem to be created to 'look pretty'... aesthetically pleasing you may say. Making them collectible. Things that people will take from the walls - or even buy, to keep forever and put up in their own houses... adding a new function to the poster... this will then remind them of the band whenever they see it. 

There is a clear higherarchy of type... the most important being the name of the band... and then the name of the support and the place and time in green... again, raising that out of the page by using colour. 

What a lovely piece of work.

Gig Posters - Broken Social Scene

Designer - The Small Stakes

Gig Posters - Beck

Designer - The Heads of State

This is very unlike the other posters which I have put on this blog. The type in the boxes just B-E-C-K repeated throughout the image, although this is not clear... making the person looking at it... look at it longer because they want to make out what it means. 

The type at the bottom of the poster is again, very minimalist and shows just the information needed. It is very much concept-driven, rather than being clear. 

Gig Posters - The Arcade Fire

Designer - Mike Weish

This is very much image based... overcoming the whole poster with clever illustrative type being made out of the branches. It looks very much hand drawn and you can see the process in which it has been layered up clearly. 

The informative type is simple and clear and very minimalist when it comes to the information. Simply stating the details of the show that it needs to get across.

This is one in a series which is collectible for fans - very much audience driven, for people who will pay money to remember the date.

Example of interesting audience & content - PELICAN/METAL MUSIC FANS/ENTHUSIASTS

This is a beautiful piece of print created by The Delicious Design League for the band Pelican. 

I admire this intently, both because of the way it looks and the message it shows. It shows Pelican to be a band that care about their image. That people who pay for their album get something worth-while.  A lot of work has gone into this design, a brilliant mix of photography, patterns and texture, and carefully thought-out type. 

This is very much aimed at Pelican's fans, and fans of metal music. It is a very limited edition poster, aimed at the fans loyal enough to spend the money on it.

Example of interesting audience & content- AMERICANS

This is one of a series of prints with the theme 'influential tweets' by Mike Kus. 

This one is particularly political and patriotic. This is shown with the American flag flying high, the positioning as high as the moon. Very much aimed at Americans, but also made to look pretty. I put this in my PPD blog as well as it is a style that I would very much like to work in, the hand-made looking feel... although this is completely computer generated.