I decided to create a poster for the now defunct band "Hole", because of the richness in content that the band provides through lyrics, videos, and even packaging, I found this band intriguing enough to put their songs on repeat for weeks while brainstorming.
Looking through posters found on gigposters and official posters, most contain imagery of the band. Usually a photograph, and the band logo.
Going through their history, I found images of cutouts that were pasted together by the lead singer for gig posters. Usually black and white, but the occasional color and always had some sort of complicated thought scrawled in talking bubbles on the "characters" of the poster.
I wanted to experiment with different variations of one color, and my intention to make a monocromatic poster was even more solidified once I saw a King Tuff poster. While it was using multiple colors, the idea of colored lineart convinced me to experiment with less colors. (In comparison to work i've done in the past)
Inspiration/Past Hole posters (below):
Eventually I created a bubble map, where I wrote thoughts that came to me (in relation to the band's image, statements, and mission).
My ideas and research about the band branched out into these kinds of sketches:
(sketches pt1 below):
For my second round of sketches, I made a bunch of boxes and forced myself to create a fixed amount of posters without stopping. Many of the things I ended up producing were from the concept of having an underlying message that was strongly about societal standards. (Due to the band's lyrical content being very opposite from the imagery/artwork they use in their cd releases)
The things that ended up being created were:
Second Round of sketches (below):
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