We really dig gig posters. They’re an art form in and of themselves, and they’re great for creative inspiration. Emerging from the flyers and handbills of the 60s and 70s, they’ve come to encompass a style all their own. Sites like GigPosters.com literally have thousands of designers’ posters you can view and purchase.
Gig posters come and go, but the truly amazing ones become art and can be found in everything from textbooks to journals. Awesome hand-drawn typography and line drawings abound in concert posters, and you can also find traces of this style in web and print design.
The following are some of my fav bookmarked gig posters for your viewing pleasure. Please note that all pictures are copyright of their respective owners; all images have links to the artists, so feel free to browse through the sites.
**Category image of Decemberists poster by Nate Duval.
James Brown Poster by Moctezuma
Vashti Bunyan Poster by Delicious Design League
Genghis Tron Poster by Delicious Design League
Animal Collective Gig Poster by Delicious Design League
Cover Art for Dave Matthew Band’s Big Whiskey and the GrooGrux King Album by Dave Matthews himself
Jason Lytle Poster by Heartbox
New Roman Times Poster by Michael Waksman
Somebody’s Darling & Mike and the Moonpies Poster by Completeandtotalliar
Electric Six Poster by The Marvelous Collective
John Vanderslice Poster by Bennett Holzworth
Deerhunter Poster by Lil Tuffy
Jen Grady Poster by Asbestos Press
Victor Wooten Poster by Aegrisomnia Design
The Breeders Poster by The Bubble Process
The Shins Gig Poster by Mike King
Isis Poster by Dan Padavic
Joanna Newsom Poster by The Small Stakes
Of Montreal Poster by Todd Slater
Stereolab Poster by Cole Gerst
Stephen Malkmus Poster by Garrett Karol
The Walkmen Poster by Methane Studios
DJ Evolution Poster by T-bone & Aljaxx
Wolf Parade Poster by Doublenaut
Deborah Harry Poster by Jesse Viduarre for Vox Pop Records
Cadillac Jones Poster by Genesse
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10.16.09
… I also find myself torn between the coffee shop and my dual monitor setup
11.04.09
May I suggest ABR Viewer as an alternative to loading and trying each brush in Photoshop? It’s free, and I use it regularly. You may find this a great time-saving alternative!
http://abrviewer.sourceforge.net/
Hope it helps!
11.04.09
Thanks for the referral, Cyndi! I’ll have to spend some time tonight trying it out.
02.11.10
I love you to pieces man!!
10.14.10
I wished and wished for a Mac, then was given one at work.
So I moved all my files over.
I HATE it. I’m a designer. I have about 50 folders for 50 different projects. I name the banner psd “banner.psd” for all of them. Try and search for them all, yeah the Mac finds them but then you have to do “get info” for each one (or change some such setting and still click on each to see where the dang thing is located. On windows. I glanced at the path to the folder and voila. Yeah changing permissions on Vista is a headache but it’s far better than the constant problems I have on the Mac. Photoshop is twitchy at best, the thing crashes, although my Roku, PS3, Wii, personal laptop all do fine with my wirless, the mac drops it all the time. I use multiple monitors. Oh my god what idiot thought of leaving the application menu on one screen when the application is on another? You can only choose one little sprout because Steve Jobs knows better than you how you should work.
can’t wait to ditch it.
sorry tirade over.
ps tons of free windows applications out there.
11.26.10
Um… how about not naming all of your files the same name? Sounds more like an organizational issue than an operating system issue, either way.
I might recommend using an identifier and THEN _banner.psd? I assume it’d be difficult to find photos as well if every picture on a drive had its own folder and was named “photo.jpg”.
Examples:
Projectname_size_banner.psd
Clientname_size_banner.psd
etc…
04.17.11
Ok, so… I’m a total newbie to photoshop. I have CS5 and a brickton of brushes. I have tried renaming them, but they do NOT show up in the list like I want them to. I’ve played around with it for like a half hour. Can anyone please help?