Bandung Distro Graphics × Screenprinted Gig

Both screenprint scene-made graphics for bands; distro moves the print from paper onto cloth.

From the research on Bandung Distro Graphics

Mix them and make something Bandung Distro Graphics Screenprinted Gig

A sample layout drawn from the recipe: shapes from Bandung Distro Graphics, their arrangement from Screenprinted Gig, the finish from Bandung Distro Graphics. Not a real work, and not an image of either style.

What each style brings

Each part of the design comes from the style with the stronger say in it, and each style gives at least two.

Bandung Distro Graphics Screenprinted Gig & Alt-Movie Poster

Type from Screenprinted Gig: Hand-lettering
Ornamented display
Colour from Screenprinted Gig: Limited spot colours
Flat fields
Form from Bandung Distro Graphics: Emblems & badges
Composition from Screenprinted Gig: Single focal point
Isolated object
Surface from Bandung Distro Graphics: Photocopy & distress
Flat

The type

Open fonts standing in for each style’s own type, which is often hand-drawn or commercial.

Display · Screenprinted Gig

Riot

Londrina Solid; Screenprinted Gig used Hand-drawn display lettering by the poster artist, drawn into the image and Condensed sans-serif and wood-type-style capitals for the band, venue and date line

Text · Bandung Distro Graphics

Screenprinted T-shirt, jacket, sticker and poster graphics of Bandung's independent distros, which grew from the underground music scene's do-it-yourself band merchandise into a local clothing economy built on small runs, originality and scarcity. Sources describe the economy far better than the look, so the visual rules here (logo-led designs, band-style lettering, local-pride slogans, cluttered sticker-and-poster shop walls) are tentative.

Special Elite; Bandung Distro Graphics used Hardcore and skate-style band logo lettering and Hand-lettered and stencil street lettering

The colours

The ground and leading colours come from Screenprinted Gig, with a counter-accent from Bandung Distro Graphics. The ink reads on the ground at 4.5:1 or more.

Bandung Distro Graphics Screenprinted Gig & Alt-Movie Poster

#1d1c1a ground · 36%
#f1ead8 ink · 14%
#f2b134 accent · 18%
#e2482f accent · 14%
#ff4f9a accent · 10%
#2a8a8c accent · 8%

As CSS

:root {
  --ground: #1d1c1a;
  --ink: #f1ead8;
  --accent-1: #f2b134;
  --accent-2: #e2482f;
  --accent-3: #ff4f9a;
  --accent-4: #2a8a8c;
  --font-display: "Londrina Solid", cursive;
  --font-text: "Special Elite", monospace;
}

Use it with care

Screenprinted Gig & Alt-Movie Poster: Film characters, logos and band names belong to their owners: Mondo's Star Wars and Marvel posters were made under licence from Lucasfilm and Disney, so clear the rights before printing a fan 'alt poster'; gig posters are the living trade of named independent printmakers, so commission or credit them rather than generating look-alikes of a recognisable artist's hand; and when you borrow the scene's sweet-and-sinister mix, keep the sinister half to monsters, skulls and noir rather than hate symbols or real atrocities: Kozik's own art drew on the iconography of Franco's fascist regime, under which he spent his earliest years in Spain, and that is not a costume to reuse.

The two styles

1993–present · Southeast Asia Bandung Distro Graphics Screenprinted T-shirt, jacket, sticker and poster graphics of Bandung's independent distros, which grew from the underground music scene's do-it-yourself band merchandise into a local clothing economy built on small runs, originality and scarcity. Sources describe the economy far better than the look, so the visual rules here (logo-led designs, band-style lettering, local-pride slogans, cluttered sticker-and-poster shop walls) are tentative.

A towering teal cactus bears a large cream-and-hot-pink flower whose lower petals form a skull face. A yellow disk, desert mesas and scattered stars sit behind it on a distressed black background, beneath tall pink lettering reading “NIGHTBLOOM.”

1991–present · North America, Western Europe, Global / networked Screenprinted Gig & Alt-Movie Poster Hand-pulled, numbered screenprints that revived the rock poster in Austin from 1991, led by Frank Kozik, and spread via Flatstock fairs and, from 2004, Mondo to 'alternative' film posters, for collectors as much as the show. The gig posters lean to fluorescent inks, innocent cartoons in bizarre scenes and dense psychedelic layers; the film posters, often by the same artists, to Bass-like silhouettes or a whole cast on one sheet. A few flat inks, opaque or overprinting, sometimes metallic, carry hand-drawn lettering and usually one witty idea, sweet and sinister, nostalgic and knowing.