I think I've developed fairly well in my design over the short amount of time I've been doing design for gig posters. It seems as if each time I do a poster, it somehow becomes my favorite, then I figure out a way to critique it so I feel as if I didn't really do a good job that time around. I think this time I feel as if I truly felt I gave a poster to the music scene worthy of being "art." The poster I'm working on now is for the band Oh My God, who I saw in my college days at the M-Shop in Ames, IA at Iowa State University. Most of my posters have been collages of images that make sense when put together, but this time I made a poster that has elements that were combined into one element to make a new object.
This poster is more like dadaism, which at times mocks the whole art scene, and combines things, or tries to pass off the portrayal ordinary items off as art. I think a lot of modern day gig posters are like that, where it takes a person to come up with random abstract thoughts that are sometimes the product of a daydreaming mind. In a sense, what I've mostly done in the past is portray "scenes" where I group like objects together and make them "look pretty." As much as I hear people like what I do, I feel I need to evolve past that, so I hope to make more posters like this one more often. Also, this is the first time I think I've given a poster a sense of depth as well.
This is a picture of one of my walls in the basement with some of the posters I've done for bands, with their autographs on all of them. At some point I'm gonna have to think of a better display system, because I can't reasonably get a frame for each poster I ever do. As more posters get made, I may have to get a large portfolio or something to contain them.
