Gig posters...

Zascar

Guys I'm doing a course in graphic design and I have a project to do for next week. We can do any form of poster for print or web - makes sense for me to do a gig photo. I need a few idea of good gig posters that I can use for ideas etc. It's using photoshop, we have not got to the Illustrator big yet, so its more jpg graphics not vectors etc.

Can anyone post any cool gig posters or point me to where I can find a few?

And is anyone here any good with photoshop?

dubsbhoy

I've done these and been hired for a few more down the road.........if you like them i'd love to help, if not you can fuk off


You can't see it but i've used over 30 images in this


Shouldn't be posting this one yet let me know when you have seeing it so i can delete

dubsbhoy

i learned 90% of photo shopping from this guy http://www.tutvid.com/

He has a youtube channel too

Zascar

Sweet thanks dude

Scubadevils

This one is pretty cool...

Android 666

These are full of design yumminess:

http://flyergoodness.blogspot.com/

http://www.smashingmagazine.com/

http://www.smashingmagazine.com/search-results/?q=Posters&submit=&client=pub-6779860845561969&forid=1&channel=3942503296&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&safe=active&flav=0000&sig=ZKMPj-qL6g57hzX6&cof=LH%3A50%3BLW%3A138%3BL%3Ahttp%3A%2F%2Fmedia.smashingmagazine.com%2Fcdn_smash%2Fwp-content%2Fuploads%2Fimages%2Flogo%2Flogo.gif%3BS%3Ahttp%3A%2F%2Fwww.smashingmagazine.com%3BFORID%3A11&hl=en&sitesearch=&sitesearch=www.smashingmagazine.com

Just remember to prioritise your information - Have a clear hierarchy of information: Name, venue, date, etc.

Make sure that the information doesn't look too crowd, make sure that the eye can move about the poster without being overpowered. Don't do effects for the sake of doing efects.

Have fun with it.

Scubadevils

Actually, that was a google image search for the term 'cool gig posters' - some genuinely good stuff there too...

http://www.google.ie/images?hl=en&source=imghp&biw=1375&bih=827&q=cool+gig+posters&gbv=2&aq=f&aqi=&aql=&oq=&gs_rfai=

Diego Smartly

Always like the ones Test do:

I'm a big fan of subtlety, less is definitely more.

Android 666

Diego Smartly wrote: »

Always like the ones Test do:

I'm a big fan of subtlety, less is definitely more.

They are really lovely posters. IS there are a website link to these?

Diego Smartly

Android 666 wrote: »

They are really lovely posters. IS there are a website link to these?

Don't think they've a website for the night/promotion. I know they have a Techno related blog though: http://www.testindustries.com/

electrogrimey

Made this one earlier on tonight:



Previous ones:

jonnny68

Flyers thesedays for the most part look to be lacking in orginality and design there are some good ones like the ones posted above though, here are some vintage flyers from the 90's

this is one of the most well known and iconic flyers ever

FANTAZIA

Android 666

jonnny68 wrote: »

Flyers thesedays for the most part look to be lacking in orginality and design there are some good ones like the ones posted above though, here are some vintage flyers from the 90's

Ah jonny, they're terrible. I thought when you said vintage flyers you were going to pull some of the Designers Republic flyers or something like that.

Here's some quality vintage flyers:

jonnny68

would you go away outta that man those flyers are some of the best ever designed.:eek:

Android 666 wrote: »

Ah jonny, they're terrible. I thought when you said vintage flyers you were going to pull some of the Designers Republic flyers or something like that.

Here's some quality vintage flyers:

BaZmO*

electrogrimey wrote: »

That's not the image that I picture when I hear "Slashing through the snow"

jonnny68 wrote: »

Flyers thesedays for the most part look to be lacking in orginality and design there are some good ones like the ones posted above though, here are some vintage flyers from the 90's

this is one of the most well known and iconic flyers ever

FANTAZIA

Ah jonny would you stop. If it's not the music that was better "back in the day" it's the flyers. Those yokes are awful.

I have some great flyers from back in the day. But I think you're confusing nostalgia with any sort of design merit.

jonnny68

On an old skool website some years ago this Fantazia flyer was voted the favourite flyer of all time so you'll excuse me mate if i strongly disagree with you, each to their own and all that.;)

BaZmO* wrote: »

That's not the image that I picture when I hear "Slashing through the snow"



Ah jonny would you stop. If it's not the music that was better "back in the day" it's the flyers. Those yokes are awful.

I have some great flyers from back in the day. But I think you're confusing nostalgia with any sort of design merit.

jtsuited

LOL!

jtsuited

jonnny68 wrote: »

On an old skool website some years ago this Fantazia flyer was voted the favourite flyer of all time so you'll excuse me mate if i stgrongly disagree with you, each to their own and all that.;)

On a jamlovers website some years ago jam was voted the favourite thing to put on bread......OF ALL TIME.

BaZmO*

jonnny68 wrote: »

On an old skool website some years ago this Fantazia flyer was voted the favourite flyer of all time so you'll excuse me mate if i strongly disagree with you, each to their own and all that.;)

Ah jonnny seriously...

jonnny68

BaZmO* wrote: »

Ah jonnny seriously...

tis true mate;)

anyway ill leave it at that.

Android 666

jonnny68 wrote: »

On an old skool website some years ago this Fantazia flyer was voted the favourite flyer of all time so you'll excuse me mate if i strongly disagree with you, each to their own and all that.;)

Ah jonny, that flyer was made by blind people as a revenge attack against the sighted.

BaZmO*

jonnny68 wrote: »

tis true mate;)

anyway ill leave it at that.

I believe it's true alright, but is that seriously your answer? Can you not see how pointless it is as an answer?

It's like saying a Ford Focus fanclub vote the Ford Focus as best car.

Is mise le key

Or jeff voting for himself as the best journalist, philosopher, sociologist, anthropologist, music critic, film critic, literature critic, historian, orator, scientist & soon to be physicist & chemist.:pac:

Android 666

Well I vote myself to be the most satanic robot on the forum…

Is mise le key

Android 666 wrote: »

Well I vote myself to be the most satanic robot on the forum…

Satanic android not robot......jeeesus:rolleyes::D

electrogrimey

I don't get flyer, it's like Dali meets Tron meets Star Wars. It doesn't exactly relate to the night very much.

Android 666

Is mise le key wrote: »

Satanic android not robot......jeeesus:rolleyes::D

Hey Android's dream of electric sheep just like Robots do…

Zascar

Actually I always quite liked the simplicity of the Nightflight posters too

Android 666

Zascar wrote: »

Actually I always quite liked the simplicity of the Nightflight posters too

I don't know… If I was going to chop off the top of his head like that I would have had planets coming out of it…

And what's with the type? There's no perspective done on it at all!

Zascar

LOL!!!

Android 666

Now that's a flyer…

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jtsuited

Is mise le key wrote: »

Or jeff voting for himself as the best journalist, philosopher, sociologist, anthropologist, music critic, film critic, literature critic, historian, orator, scientist & soon to be physicist & chemist.:pac:

the irony is I do all those things as an aside from my unspectacular music career.

Zascar

Andy... brilliant, just brilliant. But I could use even more perspective, oh and some more grid lines too, you can never have enough of those!


Jeff, I really don't understand why you continue to delay your inevitable move into politics.

jtsuited

Zascar wrote: »

Jeff, I really don't understand why you continue to delay your inevitable move into politics.

I should probably work a real job at least once in my life before doing so.

old gregg

Scubadevils wrote: »

This one is pretty cool...

Here's one for you regarding Ross Wilson, he is the author of a song that for many IS the Australian National anthemn. It came out when I was a kid (back when god was a boy in 1971) I fell in love with it and bought the record. To this day you're still likely to hear the record on radio, television and sporting events all over Australia. Classic Oz rock.

I give you, the Eagle Rock

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oQfAZVsz6KM

(that's Ross with hair singing).
Uncool though it may be to say it, I still love this song. in 2008 I almost cried at a footy game in Sydney when the home team came out and the song played.

Bibliography
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eagle_Rock_%28song%29

drewdo

I think the direction to go in is to keep things simple, keep the information clearly visible, and hierarchy is very important....whats the most important info etc...

Here's some I did for 'Delay' and 'Technotic', they wanted a kind of underground industrial feel to them. They Didn't need to be plastered with music imagery as the audience intended will know who these guys are. So the event your designing for is important also...So, pinpoint your audience, Layout simple and clean and judge what info is most important...

Hope this helps...I do ramble on......

Android 666

Zascar wrote: »

Andy... brilliant, just brilliant. But I could use even more perspective, oh and some more grid lines too, you can never have enough of those!

I gave you a little alien monster godammit! Is that not enough?

electrogrimey

Android 666 wrote: »

I gave you a little alien monster godammit! Is that not enough?

Ha ha, only just clocked that there.

BaZmO*

Been trying to find an old thread with different flyers on it with no luck. Anybody?

Logical Fallacy

http://flyergoodness.blogspot.com/2010/09/fantastic-screenprinted-gig-posters.html

Check that out.

BaZmO*

Logical Fallacy wrote: »

http://flyergoodness.blogspot.com/2010/09/fantastic-screenprinted-gig-posters.html

Check that out.

Cheers, but it's a specific thread on here. Looking for something I uploaded.

g5fd6ow0hseima

old gregg wrote: »

Here's one for you regarding Ross Wilson, he is the author of a song that for many IS the Australian National anthemn. It came out when I was a kid (back when god was a boy in 1971) I fell in love with it and bought the record. To this day you're still likely to hear the record on radio, television and sporting events all over Australia. Classic Oz rock.

Uncool though it may be to say it, I still love this song. in 2008 I almost cried at a footy game in Sydney when the home team came out and the song played.

Bibliography
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eagle_Rock_%28song%29

its nothing on Beds Are Burning

EvolutionNights

Here are some I created over the last few years.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/sonkite/

Scubadevils

old gregg wrote: »

Here's one for you regarding Ross Wilson, he is the author of a song that for many IS the Australian National anthemn. It came out when I was a kid (back when god was a boy in 1971) I fell in love with it and bought the record. To this day you're still likely to hear the record on radio, television and sporting events all over Australia. Classic Oz rock.

I give you, the Eagle Rock

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oQfAZVsz6KM

(that's Ross with hair singing).
Uncool though it may be to say it, I still love this song. in 2008 I almost cried at a footy game in Sydney when the home team came out and the song played.

Bibliography
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eagle_Rock_%28song%29

Ha, and here was me thinking I'd just found some random image of a dude from Australia! Learn something everyday!

As mentioned already, love the old Designers Republic stuff, it was great to get a book full of it with the Warp 20 year box set back in 2009.

Always loved the Temple of Sound flyers (back in the day) also... only a couple of these scanned, forget where I've seen them posted elsewhere. Anyway, probably far too '1995' for ye lot.

old gregg

EvolutionNights wrote: »

Here are some I created over the last few years.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/sonkite/

seen some of these before and attended a few of those events, great work there mate.

EvolutionNights

Cheers Gregg. Hope you had a good time at our nights.

electrogrimey

Really like this, poster by a bloke I know:

BaZmO*

Clever. Although it loses points for the smallness of the font at the bottom.

raymann

isnt this one by peter saville like a proper iconic bit of design:

http://www.worldinmotion.net/newsroom/pictures/2003/factoryposter.jpg

http://www.oliver-wood.co.uk/fac.htm

bet it was a good night anyway!