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The Brothers Pizza | Owensboro, KY

The Brothers Pizza was a great place to see live music and enjoy mouth watering Chicago style pizza. This rock concert poster design was inspired by my friend Andy (Frontman of Facedown Records metalcore band A Plea for Purging)’s newly shaven head.

Rock concert poster design story

First, I started off with a photograph I took at a previous show of Andy’s newly bald head. Then, I removed the background and roughened the edges of his outline using Adobe Photoshop. I added some noise filters and also increased the saturation for an illustration effect. I used the paintbrush tool to spell out the band names in order to simulate shaving cream.

Between the information blocks, I placed black silhouettes of vintage straight razors as dividers. I set all of the text in a specialty handwriting style font.

Finally, I added a series of purple silhouettes which depict modern disposable razors between Andy’s head and the black background. I arranged them in four columns at angles, which serve to draw your eye to the center of the composition.

A thick white frame boxes in the rest of the elements, but the purple disposable razors poke out in front of it. This technique helps to add depth to the overall piece. The pink, purple, and black combination creates a high contrast pop art feel.

I have probably made hundreds of poster designs over the years. This is one of my favorites. Although the head shaving theme had nothing to do with the show, it still caught people’s attention. The bands, the club, and many of the fans in attendance told me they loved it. It also help drum up more print design business for me.