Misty Mountain String Band / Louisville, KY
Misty Mountain String Band’s banner design on display at a performance.
After designing MMSB’s CD layout for “Went to the Well”, the band returned, asking me to create a large banner design. This three foot by five foot vinyl banner traveled with the band and helped the guys look professional when on stage.
Banner design for Kentucky bluegrass and folk band
The affable string band described their sound as “What it sounds like when a banjo smiles.” Similarly, this banner is both warm and inviting.
The large banner layout features text and ornaments arranged in a vintage two color “show poster” style. First, I set the stage with a neutral color background with a rough burlap texture. I then mixed the two big, bold fonts for the main title in bright orange.
Afterward, I reversed the words “Misty Mountain” out of a long orange block using a Western style font. This is a divider in the middle of the main title to break the banner design up visually. It also functions as ground for the squirrels to stand on.
I set the rest of the band’s name in a heavy sans serif style font. Some of the letters were randomly nudged in order to make the title appear to be manually screen printed at a letterpress such as Nashville’s Hatch Show Print.
After that, I added the band’s requested twin squirrel and banjo line drawings in a bold, dark green. This gives the overall design a natural feel with more weight. Finally, I added some distress to the entire banner design composition using a grunge pattern eraser. How much more bluegrass can you get? The answer is none – none more bluegrass!
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