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These screenprinted concert posters, all done by other designers, employ simple patterning to make a statement. My personal favs are the first two, though they aren't necessarily the best looking. What I like is the design decision to overprint a pattern without regard to what's beneath it.
It's our Neanderthal forebears we can thank for making that design decision a deft one instead of a dumb one. From the first homo erectus who roamed the earth (Strom Thurman?), through the ensuing half million years (YEC's: insert 6,000 years here), we've developed not only the capacity to recognize patterns, but -- equally as important -- the ability to turn them off in our mind. That's key here. We're able to spot a moose in the first poster precisely because cavemen needed to spot a moose. His survival depended on it. Just think, if he wasn't able to pick out the moose through all the trees, he couldn't kill it; he'd get no breakfast, and we wouldn't have Denny's.
Posters are by Aesthetic Apparatus, Heads of State, The Small Stakes, Yeehaw Industries, and Methane Studios. This post's title is a hat tip to Christopher Alexander.
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