Music Posters
Music Posters
Designed using Adobe Illustrator and Photoshop
Client
Print and Digital Design
Prompt
Create a series of 3 posters with your choice of theme, sizing and material. Thinking of the posters as a group.
Solution
Drawing inspiration from the music posters of the 1960s/1970s, the intention was to bring modern-day artists into the retro style that was prominent in the 60s and 70s. Using three different style variations, the modern-day artists: Jon Bellion, AJR, and Imagine Dragons are described in vibrant, chaotic three-color formats with different techniques used for each piece.
Other Poster Designs Developed
With The Similar Style
The Process
The Process
The process begins by describing thumbnails for each band. The inspiration for the thumbnails were drawn from studying 1960s and 1970s music poster styles. Achieving an understanding of the basic concepts and compositions that was used for that poster style.
Each poster is connected by the same typeface that is used, Synthemesc, a retro and groovy wide display type that featured elements that represented the styles of the original 1970’s posters. The posters are also tied together with the use of three color schemes in each poster that have overlapping colors.
After sketching out thumbnails, next came the creation of each poster. Giving each poster a similar but different composition, as well as style, allowed for the use of gestalt and individuality. The Jon Bellion poster drew inspiration from The Chamber Bros design by Rick Griffen. Using a gradient overlay style across the original image allowed for a subtle but clear image of Jon Bellion in a similar style such as the design by Griffen.
The AJR poster was created without any particular inspiration in mind, but used a different technique than the Jon Bellion poster. Instead of altering the image with a gradient overlay, a simple orange and red overlay was used. This was to keep the realistic photo qualities of the image while simply altering the image into an orange/red hue.
The Imagine Dragons poster was inspired in a similar technique as the Jon Bellion poster. In an attempt to break the use of actual images, this poster uses an illustration of a dragon altered in the same gradient overlay style as Jon Bellion. With the use of the dragon illustration, there was more room for detail and contrasting elements to include within the illustration that the Jon Bellion poster was not able to have.
