The third and last learning assignment this week was to design a poster in A3 format, for a band’s gig. The band is called The Keystrokes. We were to choose the name of their tour, dates, time and venue.
I used quite a while playing around with what kind of band The Keystrokes are, should they be a grunge band? Or a marching band? (You can call this inspiration the month of May in Norway.) The Keystrokes could even be a one-man band. Fun, fun, fun! I ended up more in the electronic dance music (EDM) genre, I visualized an hybrid between a girl band and EDM, I almost have a slogan for them as well: «Stroking the keys with our voices.» For their tour I came up with «Dance alone tour.» Hello social distancing in 2020/2021. The concept for the tour is concert meets silent disco, everyone hear the music in headphones, instead of in plenary. I then settled on wanting to do my illustration with either headphones and/or someone dancing.
I chose tp do my poster for a very local gig, placed in my hometown. As you can see from the other places on the tour list, this is a very important and big town. Just kidding, I just wanted to promote my hometown a bit. My gig poster attempt ended up like this:
I knew when I started, that this had to be in a lot and bold colors. For the illustration, I traced a photo of my headphones, and simplified it. To create a bit of texture I used two different patterns, and turned the opacity real low.
We were also told to expand our design to include a pamphlet, with dates of the tour and information about merchandise etc. I chose to make mine a folded one, so I have made Front and back on one illustration, and have made the inside in another illustration.
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