Poster Design
A Brief History
I began designing almost by accident, initially graduating with a degree in Commercial Illustration.
Along the way of forging the graphic design side of my brain, many x-acto blades, sheets of Letraset (huh?), much white out and jars of rubber cement glue passed through my hands as the tools of my trade.
My mostly self-taught design skills harken back as well to the jurassic days of an old MAC Classic.
Those old days were very hands on - literally. Designs were cut and paste onto sheets of white bristol board with some non repro blue pencils to guide you along. No zipdisks, no CDRs, no TIFFS, JPEGS, EPS, USB keys, or any other abbreviations. Sounds positively archaic does it not?
Well, despite the fact that I don't miss the papercuts and rubber cement highs, I still consider it an essential period in developing my design skills, learning about composition, font choices, etc; and still approach most of my work today in the same manner, my blades and glue replaced now by the click of a computer mouse and a keyboard.
As you will see the majority of my work has been for the music industry. I spent well over five years designing concert posters almost weekly, and at some point lost count on how many I had done. I'll be honest, I wasn't proud of all of them as I felt like a human assembly line at times, as they were always needed yesterday!
But some of the better ones are included here. I still continue to do some concert posters today from time to time as well.
I began designing almost by accident, initially graduating with a degree in Commercial Illustration.
Along the way of forging the graphic design side of my brain, many x-acto blades, sheets of Letraset (huh?), much white out and jars of rubber cement glue passed through my hands as the tools of my trade.
My mostly self-taught design skills harken back as well to the jurassic days of an old MAC Classic.
Those old days were very hands on - literally. Designs were cut and paste onto sheets of white bristol board with some non repro blue pencils to guide you along. No zipdisks, no CDRs, no TIFFS, JPEGS, EPS, USB keys, or any other abbreviations. Sounds positively archaic does it not?
Well, despite the fact that I don't miss the papercuts and rubber cement highs, I still consider it an essential period in developing my design skills, learning about composition, font choices, etc; and still approach most of my work today in the same manner, my blades and glue replaced now by the click of a computer mouse and a keyboard.
As you will see the majority of my work has been for the music industry. I spent well over five years designing concert posters almost weekly, and at some point lost count on how many I had done. I'll be honest, I wasn't proud of all of them as I felt like a human assembly line at times, as they were always needed yesterday!
But some of the better ones are included here. I still continue to do some concert posters today from time to time as well.
