Classic Rock

Phew! I have been wanting to do this for a long time. For years now I have been spending all of my time as a designer creating artwork for other people, whether that be clients, my employer or friends. Recently I’ve been thinking about carving out time to do some personal work for a change, but have been struggling with figuring out where to start. Usually I have a fairly fleshed out project on my desk before I start working on something new. This time it was completely up to me and I found my mind racing in all sorts of directions as to where to get started. After taking a few steps back, actually closing my computer and getting this completely out of my mind, the idea for the above poster came to me and so today I ran with it. Now, this is kind of an ironic image for me because I’m actually not that big a fan of classic rock. However I’m a huge fan of music and of a classic, vintage design style and I knew whatever project I started with I would lean more towards those trends. This is what came out after some copy & pasting, layering and brush work in Photoshop.

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    • May 7, 2008

7 Comments

  • Very very nice man. I’ve always loved seeing the things you work on for yourself no matter if it’s our own company work or something more personal like this. Looking forward to seeing more

    May 8, 2008
  • Thanks bro! Hopefully I’ll crank out some more soon.

    May 9, 2008
  • I like the texture on this one, also what font is that?

    May 19, 2008
  • The font is “Gotham”, one of my favorite fonts. You can check it out here

    May 19, 2008
  • Hi! very nice image!!! I love it!! :)
    I was searching for some inspiration images to work and found your poster. Very nice! :)
    I am a design studant, a begginer at producing images at photoshop… I really like how simple this image is :)

    Ps.: I’m from Brazil :)

    January 20, 2009
  • Very nice. Used it on my iPod as an album cover for Time Life classic rock series.

    Vin
    May 24, 2009
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