gig posters
irudia
Rhythm, tone, harmony, improvisation… All things which music and poster making have in common. Since Tolouse Lautrec, Alphonse Mucha and Gustav Klimnt made posters for concerts and other types of shows, advertising posters have become a good format for graphic experimentation. The vanguard Soviet masters, the 50’s with their jazz and hi-fidelity touch, counterculture in the 60’s, followed by pop and punk, the combination and reinterpretation of all of the above… We’ve asked three concert poster makers from recent years to show us some of their work.


Marta Enes

I studied at design school and mastered the technical and artistic resources I needed for designing there. My own style started to take shape. And I had the chance to experiment and become better at what I do with Dirty Pink Ladies, a rock group from Irun. They were friends of mine and they did a lot of concerts around 2010. They were the first ones. Since then I’ve come up with record covers and concert posters for quite a few groups.


Eneko Etxeandia

In the 90’s I used to make badges about my favourite groups using photos, photocopies and letraset. As badges had disappeared by then –it was all pins– the only thing I could do was make them myself. I guess that’s what first drew me towards graph design. I went on to study Graphic Design and I’ve been working in this ever since. I’ve always played in groups so it was just a matter of time before music and design came together for me.


Iñaki Lopez Allende

I decided to get into the graphic design world and teach myself how to do things quite recently. When I finished my science degree and found there weren’t any jobs for me I started looking around for something to do with my life and then Ayo Silver –who organize a lot of concerts– asked me to do work for them. I got back in touch with my creative side and all of a sudden this became a job for me.