If you have the task of promoting an event like a gig or any quite live music concert, it's important that you undertake everything you can to form awareness to make sure it will be as thriving as possible. Flyers and posters are an excellent traditional approach of promoting gigs, they're affordable cheap to print.
Most designers believe the hardest thing in the design process is to find design inspiration, as posters will serve to communicate a message to people passing close by just in seconds. In other words, the design should be attractive, but it also must be on target. Finally, an inspirational poster design will be able to make someone interested in attending a gig.
Want to design your own gig poster? Here’s a showcase of 25 awesome illustrative gig poster designs to help you foster some illustration techniques of your own.
Awesome Illustrative Gig Poster Designs to Inspire You
1. THE DECEMBERISTS • Gig Poster via S E A N F R E E M A N • T H E R E I S
2. The Shins "Port of Morrow" Poster via Jose Berrío
3. Cape to Koppi via Ian Jepson
4. The Dollfins Poster via Ian Jepson
5. WRESTLEMANIA Poster via Ian Jepson
6. Diamond Thug 'Lights Out' Tour via Ian Jepson
7. voodoo techno via Luperta McFly
8. The Black Keys "Hangout Music Festival" Poster via Jose Berrío
9. The Stella's - Hot Heat Tour via One Horse Town Illustration Studio
10. The Joy Formidable Stage AE Poster via Nina Zivkovic
11. Rising Phoenix Magic Bus Tour via Ian Jepson
12. Playing The Fool Tour via Ian Jepson
13. Baobab Posters via Dimis Giannakoulias
14. Event poster no.1 via Justyna Frąckiewicz
15. DING DING! via Jack Zed McEwan
16. Twelve Dolls Posters via Jorge Lawerta
17. The Vaccines "Come of Age" Poster via Jose Berrío
18. Collective Suburbia | 2012 via Dewald Venter
19. Posters 2012 via Dmitriy Andrievskiy
20. Improbable Jams via Andrew Fairclough
21. Kenny's Gig Posters via Matthew Griffin
22. Paradiso via Timo Kuilder
23. Sigur Ros Poster Design via Emily Dymond
24. Mumford & Sons gigposter via Ying Jun Cheng
25. Bersuit Vergarabat (gig posters and publiciy) via Edgar Reyes
Distribute your Gig Poster - Tips
You could rent a promotions company to distribute your gig posters if you're engaged on a bigger scale. Keep in mind that you can't simply stick posters up anyplace. It’s prohibited to fly poster therefore have a care wherever you place them. The only way to get a decent response and convey in new faces is to induce out into the community and distribute your posters and flyers in cafes, recording studios, music shops, and universities, and additionally as several workplaces as you can. A poster on a workers bulletin board is very effective however you may ought to get past the receptionist at these places by being nice and friendly.