Music Festivals and Clipping Masks
Music festivals are something most people are very familiar with; an opportunity to see a large amount of one's favorite bands in the same place usually for a fairly lower price than one might pay to see them specifically. This does present a challenge from a design point however, from trying to figure out how to put all the information on one 11 by 17 sheet of paper while trying to keep an idea of how to still make it look good. There are a lot of very interesting ways to go about this, one of my personal favorites has to be the use of clipping masks. Taking text and putting it into a relevant object, it keeps the attention of the audience while still being visually appealing and including all of the necessary
information.
The above poster is a wonderful example of this process, though it's not exactly a music festival poster it has the same basic idea for it's performance. All of the text falls beautifully within the dancer's foot, except for the word 'with' which personally just seems very out of place. This poster is entirely composed of text, there isn't a standalone graphic and yet it's still a very strong poster. It makes you look twice at it, even with a fairly dull color scheme. It gets the point across more effectively than many other methods could have. I do wish that they hadn't cut off parts of the words in some places, I can't actually effectively read the bottom three lines to the extent I believe you should be able to. Over all however I think it's done wonderfully.
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