Gig poster – Phillip Flute

I did a set of gig posters, each based on a phone doodle. Then I did a version of each without the doodle¹ with more emphasis on the type. Both versions shown above.

How did I get from 1 to 2?

• Kept the font and the main colour (ish).
• Did something to make it more interesting than just making the type bigger and reversing it.

I did try writing the performer names out myself (this uses a font) but my lettering skills weren’t up to the result I wanted.

Fake!

The big addition here is the ‘fake’ inked-look, as if the thing was done with some slapdash linocut printing. The purple background is a scan of ink rolled onto paper and I’ve added a bit of ‘ink splatter’ onto the white lettering. To what end? That’s a good question. I may return to address it…

1. That was the original idea. I did end up using varying amounts of doodle in some posters.