Vinyl Cover

These are the promo packs. They are 7" vinyl sleeves. The poster fits perfect three times into the pack. And all the other things fit in normally.

The nets work perfect, it will be hard to put card through the printers and card is ultimately what I want. So I have to maybe think that I can go and buy some vinyl sleeves from Crash Records and screenprint one colour onto the front.

Venue Cards

These are the Venue info cards. I chose to put some text about the venue on the cards and some text about the history of the venue. I chose the venues carefully for the artists chosen. If they have history in the venue and if they suit the style of music traditionally played their.

A6 format on pulped of white card.

AOM - Quote Cards

These are all of the quote cards put together ready for print. Its the same basic layout at the posters, but the shapes change. I chose to put a quote on because Its a nice format to read when they're so small.

I put a few quotes on the first cards, they're the first ones i printed, once I had printed them it made much more sense just to put on quote on and once again its a lot more readable on such a small format.  

The Art of Music

This is the final font chosen. Steelfish Bold. I picked it because its long to fill up the white space a bit and its bold and striking, its easy to make out from a distance. The detail is what the concert is all about and where it is held. I chose this to be small so that the initial reaction from the title draws you into the text.

These will be digitally printed onto a think, foldable stock that doesnt crack. The poster itself is a little smaller than A2, it folds into 3rds to fit into a 7" vinyl sleeve.

Art of Music - Final Attempts Fonts

Bebas

Alt Haas Grotesk

These are the final attempts for the posters and the bands. Jimi Hendrix and Bob Dylan, Band of Horses and Neil Young and BB King and Pink Floyd.

These are the first two fonts tried out on the posters, but again, the quote cards, venure leaflets and promo packs will follow.

Overall I am pleased with the designs, I think the type and the white space compliments the little detail at the bottom and the content is eye catching and makes you read that detail.

The Art of Music - 2nd Attempt

These are some ideas I came up with before the crits. I got good feedback on these designs. People said they were stricking and captured the feel of the gig.

They were put together quick so I didnt really think about image choice.

I want to choose a nice stock, foldable and stiking. After the crit with Joe, we came to the conclusion that the word play with the artists is what can be stiking. Peopl said that 'Neil Kiss' is what caught they're eye, not the image. Joe said that I should make it one or the other, type or image, stop trying with both.

I went down the type path and chose to re-think the artist chosen. I still chose artists that I would love to see perform together, but I chose ones with names that would be more eye catching.

The Art of Music - 1st attempt

These are just a couple of initial ideas from the after math of my tutorial. I didn't want or choose to just use images at hand, so attempted to create my own images, that show the personalities and qualities of the bands I have chosen to play together.

These are the second attempts for the posters. I found them boring, lifeless and dull. They dont strike out at all and weren't really doing anything for me.

I decided to create a full pack instead of just posters. To produce posters, bio or quote cards, info cards about the venues. This would all fold away into a self promotional package.

 

These were the the ideas for the quote cards and info packs for the venues. Once again I lacked inspiration and really didn't like what I was producing, I was so unhappy with it I was going to start again with the ideas.

Headline Final Prints

These are the final products for the Headline screenprint breif devised by Oliver Dunn and Jonathen Lister.

Overall I am quite happy with the prints, the image is bold and dark and the colour is an effective, bright contrast with the black image. The type also sits well on the blue.

I am not too pleased with the line up of the piece. I know a bad works man always blames his tools, but I have never used the vacuum beds at Blenheim Walk, I have only used the beds. The vacuum beds at Vernon street line up amazingly, but the ones up at our college seem to push the paper about two or three mill out. Therefore every print is different. Some say it adds charm and that is what silkscreen is all about. I can understand this so am overall happy. But I would prefer an overall production value to be better next time. Also the deadline for the designs was dangerously close to the deadline for the prints. This was a little annoying and time wasn't taken as well as it could have been.

More pictures of the final show after the jump.

Jimmy Page Shirt

This is the final product for my Dad's shirt. He was happy with it and production wise, it was one of the best t-shirts that I have ever printed. I think when there's only one to do its less stress full, or I'm just getting the hang of it.

James Patrick Page

Just a T-shirt that is really simple, quick but effective. My Dad's favorite guitarist, printed for his birthday in edition of one.

Skinny Ships - Final

These are a sneak peak at the finals, Doubt, Arrogance, Value, Strive and Elegance.

They all need to be trimmed, signed, editioned and packaged.