Poster!

So for our final Type II project we had to create a promo poster of our "favorite" band and it had to represent a collage and/or montage aspect. We were supposed to highlight an album and include tour dates and what not (although this aspect was fairly lax), and we were supposed to represent who the band was and what they liked/stood for, etc... We *technically* only had two class periods to work on our designs, so this was a lighting fast project. However, that being said, this was my most favorite project and the one that I feel I did the best on.

The band I chose was The Gaslight Anthem (if you haven't heard of them you should definitely check them out! They are amazing - and while not my favorite favorite band, they are a band that I really like!) and I decided to highlight their "sink or swim" album (however, I would highly recommend their "'59 sound" album!). I saw this band about a year and a half ago at the Cat's Cradle in Carrboro, NC and just loved them - they have this old-timey feel to them, where they kind of come off as "greasers" from the 50's or 60's with tattoos covering them. Their songs are very much about relationships and life and it just makes you feel like you are hearing about the noir time period.

ANYWAY, like I said I highlighted their sink or swim album and I wanted to make the poster a collage of traditional tattoo flash with a nautical theme. So, what I did, was hand draw each element of the poster on paper, then scan it in to the computer and manipulated it then in Photoshop. I had a lot of fun with it. If I had a little more time I would have liked to connect the rope (in both the band name and the anchor) altogether and to the ship in the top left corner. Otherwise, I am completely content with how this turned out.

Again, like all my other projects, I will probably tweak some things here and there in the future, but otherwise I love it.

-Erika