This is a poster we designed for Viva Radio’s Grand Concert Evangelique. This is the followup to last year’s poster whose name and design were inspired by an amazing Haitian church flyer we found in Asbury Park NJ. We kept the name this year. As for the design, the image is based on a church diagram from a book called The City as an Image of Man from 1970. We inverted the image because according to the website www.exposingsatanism.org the “upside down cross symbolizes mockery and rejection of Jesus. Necklaces are worn by many satanist’s. It can be seen on Rock singers and their album covers.” This is quite true and not long after we completed this we began working on a project for a rock band who requested two upside down crosses. As for the typography, we kind of associate letterpress with southern “gig posters”. We saw it as a total reductive interpretation of/homage to the functional aesthetics of letterpress (i.e. choosing type because it fits, mixing type). And, lastly the colors, green and purple. A sustainable mystery. Originally this was being overprinted as two spot colors. At the last minute, these ended up being large format inkjet prints, thus a total fake. Ugg.