This is our hand pulled Gig poster for Tocotronic’s »Pädagogisch Wertlos Tour« (engl. without educational value tour) 2016.
The colors are derived from their current record wich is called »das rote Album« (engl. the red album). The poster imitates a repeating writing exercise. Another picture we had in mind is the abacus, a slide rule used as rhythmical construction kit.
The print was created in cooperation with Krasser Stoff Merchandise.
Design by Falk Schwalbe.
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27 gigs – Nada Surf was touring Europe in 2016 and they brought Rainbow posters with them.
It’s their eighth album. Eight brilliant records that kept us company through the last 20 years. They started as a small wave, which kept on growing, and now they reach the sky like a mountaintop. Their music is straight forward and something new arise slightly. Eight shapes which get abstract and show their unmistakable development.
Design by Falk Schwalbe.
Sometimes it’s hard to explain where the inspiration for a poster idea comes from. There’s just this feeling, standing in the crowd in front of a stage and a gigantic psychedelic sound wave overcomes you. Sound surrounds you, light surrounds you and this indescribable awesome atmosphere is getting to you.
And that’s the result. Two posters for Tame Impalas shows in Amsterdam and Brussels.
Design by Falk Schwalbe.
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We designed this Gig poster for Sleater-Kinney. One half was printed at Abnormal Tees in NY, and the other part at Rainbow studio.
It’s so simple as it seems. THREE girls in a band symbolized by a triangle, that is only scaled. Printed with THREE screens, in THREE colors, witch form THREE mixed colors. And only one step out of line that don’t fit into anything else.
Design by Falk Schwalbe.
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This poster has sold out after a couple of shows of their European Tour 2015. So the band asked for a second edition. No problem for us! We changed the colors and printed another round of 100 posters.
Many people ordered this print asking us »Who’s Unknown Mortal Orchestra?« They are just brilliant. We were so blessed to work with them.
Design by Falk Schwalbe.
Sounds Of Subterrania asked us for help to do the cover of the re-release of DIE! DIE! DIE!’s first self-titled album. What an honor!
We picked up the original artwork and designed a foldable case for their LP. Outside it looks like the original and inside we designed the largest DIE! DIE! DIE! typography that was possible. To visualize the band`s unfiltered and powerful stage performance, that earned them a reputation as one of the most energetic and hardest-working bands in the world, we drew this dynamic, unruly logo type. Thanks to Gregor Samsa for inviting us to this project.
Design by Falk Schwalbe.
A Winged Victory For The Sullen. This music increases from silent notes to a very complex sound. We had this idea of growth, but at the same time we wanted to go back to the bottom line. We used the image of cell division, which starts as one unit and than keeps dividing itself into two, four, eight… But natural growth isn’t at all projectable. Eventually new results will follow. This moment is symbolized by mixing blue and red, which turn purple.
Design by Falk Schwalbe.
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This design is an abstract translation of Play – Stop – Skip – Pause based on the letter shapes of The Kooks. It was created for their new album »Listen«, which was released in 2014. The letters were rotated, simplified, connected, mirrored, … They create a playful, rhythmical, moving picture.
Design by Falk Schwalbe.