Prince R.I.P.

I suppose I can post this one now. This show was cancelled, never went on sale, never announced. Prince's people supplied the photo of him, that's all. The rest was left to me,  though it did have to be approved by "Prince himself". Now I don't know if that was bullshit or not but I heard back that "he" loved the poster. That was a great day.  The Controversy Daily bit was the promoter's idea. RIP

Previously - Lower Dens

I knew that there was another Lower Dens job somewhere. So I dug this out.

New Years Eve

First draft of a New Year's Eve party poster from last year. I dunno, I liked it. It got scrapped though.

Gary Numan

Poster for Gary Numan who played a sold out gig in Dublin recently. The first one was done before the artwork for his new album came out. I then did another one when the new artwork was provided. It was never used though because shortly after the gig sold out.

Washed Out

Poster for Washed Out that happened a few weeks ago. A lot of information.

The Button Factory print ad

Here's a listing ad for the venue The Button Factory.

Chic

Poster for Chic in Belfast. This design was used for the Dublin gigs too. 

Neon Neon

Nice poster for upcoming Neon Neon gig. Very simple reformat of their new album cover.

Kaleidoscope's 4th Birthday Party

Hard to believe I've done 51 of these posters. The Kaleidoscope night celebrates its 4th birthday in September with a special gig in The Sugar Club. Clíodhna, Kate and crew seem happy to continue with this theme and why not. The trick is to make it different every month while keeping it the same. You might notice that there is a load of squares on this one. Fourth birthday, four sides..... oh well.

Múm

Múm are coming to Dublin and have a new album out. For this poster I just adjusted the album cover, extended the lined section by flipping it and copied the text for the gig details. Ashamed to say I didn't have a decent marker to hand, that's why the letters are jagged, I used a biro.

Brand new poster for Youngblood Brass Band. I originally did one based on the template they sent over but the promoter wanted something more classic and jazzy. I'm glad he asked because this is way better.

Alamaba 3

Recent poster for Alamaba 3. I just had a go at doing something interesting with their skull-head dude. Vic Rattlehead with an afro.

King's X

A band I love, King's X were going a tour this year and they had a terrible facebook cover on their page to promote it. What the hell, I spent 5 minutes doing this and sent it over to them. They liked it and used it.

Britpop

Poster for a disco of British indie music from the '90s (although I'm sure the djs will play Soon). This sort of a party for people still buzzin' after Blur play their gig in Dublin that night. Yea, super iconic British design element. I didn't want to use the Union Jack.

Cancelled Toots

Toots doesn't change his approved photos very often and promotors love the colours so this poster for this month's cancelled Dublin gigs is not that different to the one from 2009 in the previous post. Get well soon Toots.

On Google maps

A couple of my posters in Street View. Toots and Laura Izibor. These are from 2009 I think.

Chic

New Chic poster for their Vicar St. gigs later this year. It's inspired by the cover of Get Lucky by Daft Punk. I didn't want to make it too blatant, hopefully its subliminal.

Red Queen Contest - Album Cover

I got a pre-release copy of the Red Queen Contest album that I did the design work for. Happy to report that it looks well and sounds great.

Blur

Ad for this summer's Blur concert. This was in the Sunday Times a few weeks ago.

Forbidden Fruit 2013

A few versions of the artwork for the Forbidden Fruit festival. This is a lot of work spread over a long period of time. A lot of changes and a lot of versions. The basic idea is that of the promoter and I was wary of it. With less than a month to go I've come around and it's a lot more workable than I thought it'd be. It looks especially well on the festival's website.