This is the poster for Vancouver Pro Musica’s blowout weekend of new music. While the main event is the Sonic Boom Festival there was this adjacent concert featuring specially commissioned works for electronics and voice. It is such a rich subject! My first thought was to somehow involve a rendering of human vocal cords but all the medical illustrations that popped up were a little too, um, provocative (go ahead, search it)! So I instead raided my floral image bank and mirrored a shot from one of my iPhone walkabout series. Perfect! We have a fair evocation of vocal cords and a deeper sense of mystery and diversity of form. This was also used for lightbox ads, brochures, electronic billboard and the printed program. It has become a favourite so far this year…and it’s only March!
I really enjoy working for Friends of Chamber Music and designing each season’s posters and digital advertising content. This year has been no exception! I pulled back a little bit from last season’s more abstract approach to include hints of instruments. The main display font is Landmark which seems to me to combine a hint of a neon showbiz with solid tradition.