Agency: Rockets are Red
Client: Jawbreaker / Garageland
A sold out poster designed for Jawbreaker’s performance at The Fillmore Silver Spring, MD. Specifically, to promote and sell at their show celebrating the 25th anniversary of their landmark album, Dear You. The four color screen print is 18x24 inches and printed on heavy Whitewash French Paper. It features revealing glow-in-the-dark messages throughout the work. The work features hotel stationery being typed on by a typewriter. The main design of the poster plays on the title of the album being performed, Dear You. All the information, such as venue address and greeting, are displayed as if it were written as a standard letter – ‘Dear You’, starts the correspondence. When the light is turned off, the unwritten thoughts of the themes of the album are displayed through song lyrics; love, loss, heartbreak, betrayal, and loneliness. The typewriter itself is Kerouac’s typewriter, which was a portable model’ – a 1930’s Underwood Royal Standard. Kerouac and Oscar Wilde are both displayed showing the contrasting writing styles and world views at play. It is also surrounded by pictures representing DC, such as the lion statue, and paired with a cat yawning as a reference to the band’s first album.
This poster is a meditation on the healing power of music - acknowledging that there are others out there feeling what you feel and trying to make the ugly more beautiful; even when the insides of the beautiful model is pure betrayal, lies, and loss of faith.
Additional Credits
Printing by Triple Stamp Press