GIGPOSTERS Volume 2

Gigposters Volume 2 is now available, and I was lucky to be one of the 101 designers and artists asked to be a part of it (the eagle eyed amongst you may have noticed both the Unearthly Trance and Gallows prints on the cover!). It's a large, beautifully crafted tome and both volumes are by far the best overview of everbody working in the gig poster scene right now. 

"11 x 14 inches - 208 pages - Paperback
Includes 101 perforated and ready-to-hang posters along with hundreds of other poster images and designer biographies. Packaged in an oversized 11-by-14-inch paperback, Gig Posters Volume II is a spectacular compilation of rock show art (and a great way to decorate a dorm room or apartment)." 

Get it at Gigposters.com

WOLVES IN THE THRONE ROOM - Supersonic Festival 2011

Straight after completing the "Celestial Lineage" US poster, the band approached me about designing another poster for their appearance at the 2011 Supersonic Festival in Birmingham, UK. Whilst the brief still centred around around concepts specific to Celestial Lineage, I was keen to produce a piece that stayed true to these themes but that could also act as a contrast and counterpoint to the poster that preceded it.

Whilst the previous US tour poster had portrayed the new aristocracy of the emergent "Cedar Cult" - a priestess releasing her familiar to explore the newly discovered territory of the sky, I was keen to reference the Earth worship found at the foundations of this new society. The concept of "Subterranean Initiation" lies at the heart of this design. In the poster before it, the staff of the priestess (as Hierophant) spans the length of the frame, touching both earth and heavens, representing the desire for dominion over both land and heavens. 

Here the male satyr-like figure looks down instead of up, instruments of ritual laid out before him. His staff points to the North-East, traditionally a dividing line between light & darkness in many ancient cultures. This in turn is related to the concept of the four cardinal directions which are often found in varying forms of ceremonial magick (and on Celestial Lineage itself). The shadowed figure here is perhaps the guardian of this place of initiation, at the foot of stairs ascending to the North Watchtower.

Sigils created in relation to the concept of the cardinal points in relation to stars found in the night sky. Going clockwise from upper right, the symbols here represent Alderbaran, Regulus, Antares and Fomalhaut. The black sun of Sol Niger appears overhead once again.

3 colour Screenprint (metallic silver / gold / black)

18 x 24". Printed by Broken Press. Edition of 100.

(Artist copies are signed, but not numbered - limited number available online from scrawled.bigcartel.com)

WOLVES IN THE THRONE ROOM - Celestial Lineage US tour poster

Wolves In The Throne Room unveiled the third album in their lp trilogy which started with "Two Hunters" and was followed by "Black Cascade".  Whilst the misty, lunar atmosphere of the previous albums is still present here, there is also a sense of majesty and perhaps even warmth. A time of transition and the potential for transcendence. In the bands own words "much of Celestial Lineage focuses on earth magick and the power and beauty of nature but it also speaks of the stars and the astral world beyond.  The previous records are rather primal and feral - this one is more aristocratic. We wanted to create the Liturgical Music of the Cedar Cult".

The veiled and shadowed figures depicted previously have now moved into plain sight, and have taken position on self-appointed thrones. The foundations of a new orthodoxy are being built. The Hierophant takes female form in a religion that has grown from the earth and now gazes toward the heavens.

This poster was part of the official tour series printed by Broken Press.
3 colours. 18 x 24". Edition of 105.

*Limited number of these prints available for mail order at scrawled.bigcartel.com

NEUROSIS - The Button Factory, Dublin 2011

The harvest. Death & rebirth.

Solar energy sleeping under the night of Lughnasadh. 

Sacrifice of the king.

detail

4 colour Screenprint (metallic gold colour way)

18 x 24"

Edition of 100. Printing by Monolith Press.

(Sorry - no copies available for mailorder!)

VALLENFYRE - logo and symbol design

Logo and symbol design for death metal act Vallenfyre on Century Media Records.

(Layouts and illustration by Orion Landau).

www.vallenfyre.co.uk

COMPLY OR DIE - "Depths"

"Depths" layout

"Comply Or Die's second album, 'Depths'. 8 songs, 45 minutes of pure aural ecstacy. More riffs, more shouting, more bottom end and more heavy drums than you could shake a lot of wood at".

This Belfast based trio deliver a sonic melting pot of hardcore punk, metal and noise rock harking back to the glory days of labels such as Am Rep, SST, Skin Graft and the like. The design for this provided the chance to raid my dusty archives of old clippings and psychology textbooks and indulge in some cut & paste action, hopefully evoking the ghosts of the late 80's / early 90's bands that inspired this release.

shirt design

complyordie.bandcamp.com/releases

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