MFNW Poster Process
Every year in Portland there is a city-wide music happening called MusicfestNW. My friends at Tender Loving Empire asked me to design the poster for their showcase last year, and I must’ve done an OK job because they asked me to do the same this year.
All the bands involved in this show are ones that I have seen multiple times and really like, so that’s always a bonus. The show is in early September, right at the end of summer/beginning of fall, and I liked the concept of someone making the last ditch summer effort of making some cutoffs, even though it is about to cool down soon.


I designed this to be a three-color poster, the first being a split-fountain gradient to re-create the sunburned feet/pale legs. The paper is a light blue, which will show through in the cutoffs and flip-flops.

Then a dark blue layer.

And here they are after a final, deep pink layer.










