Here's a follow up to the BlastOff! Web site I posted a little while ago.
This poster followed the same colour scheme of orange and blue, with the festival logo and listings hand lettered. After going through a whole load of alternative layouts and ideas, I decided on a very literal image, with the rocket flames showing off the line-up, and the extra details swirling around the surface of a psychedelic planet below. The names of the main bands are almost the size of the festival logo, for maximum legibility, with an upward sweep running through the design, giving the composition some thrust. Because the bulk of the poster was taken up with this important feature, the go-go girls and compere had to be dropped in in a small 1950s style font (brush script), which means you may have to squint a bit to read their fabulous names.
The poster was drafted at full size (A3) with a 0.1 fineliner giving the necessary detail.(Shown below next to another key piece of kit for scrubbing out scribbles: the Rowney Mystic eraser. What mystic means I don't know but it sounds like there's magic in that there rubber. Can't be bad!)
In the dark blue surround I added interest with a selection of spacey stuff, UFO's, astronauts, spacegirls packin' ray guns, the robot monster playing a Vox Phantom, basically all the B-movie clichés I could cram in.
This design was adapted for flyers too, with some of the information removed from the front and more added to the back, along with a few of the choice spot illustrations also used on the web, to add a visual balance to all that writing.
The posters and flyers made it half way round the world, to France, Spain, Portugal and one sighted a couple of years later on the wall of Caffeine Sound recording studio in Sao Paulo. See if you can spot it here. Must be something to do with that magic eraser!
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