nine inch nails
music poster & vinyl
Nine Inch Nails is American alternative rock band known for dark and tortured industrial rock songs. This project is designing the music poster for their concert Ghosts VI: Locusts album. To design a music poster in an intriguing way which reflects the bands concept while simultaneously capturing the attention of their audience and encouraging them to attend their concert.
The album Ghosts VI: Locusts focuses on expressing their sentiments on how coronavirus has “destroyed daily lives”, to reflect this feeling I used a personal photograph during my travels with a distorted text to mimic the negative effects the coronavirus has had on everyone’s daily routines.
Process
A distressed texture has been added to the photograph to represent that we can no longer do things we could have done before Covid-19, such as traveling, hanging out with friends, shopping, and going to school.
For the colors, I chose yellow and grey from Pantone's pandemic colors for 2021, which indicate a covid situation.
For the vinyl design, I tried to maintain a unified concept with the poster and used spot UV varnish on the text to make the text and background image contrast.
Outcome
Adding a personal touch made me reflect on how covid impacted my life, using that an inspiration for the design. I listened to their albums and absorbed the emotions the band felt through their songs and expressed them through posters.
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