...in this retro-eighties-high-tech-but-somehow-still-charming poster for Jose Gonzales by Nate Duval. The US gig posters scene just keeps giving and giving – if only promoters in the UK cared about design in this way.

You can buy it for the giveaway price of $25 in Nate’s shop where he’s also got tons of other great posters and art prints for sale.

Aaron Horkey of Burlesque Design, Minnesota has created this amazingly detailed poster for American hardcore punk band Cable’s reunion tour. It also has the distinction of being the longest image I’ve ever posted. Spotted at OMG Posters.

I'm loving the US indie poster scene at the moment. Venues commission their own posters from graphic artists who show little respect for artists’ branding and instead create beautiful and unique works of art, often in limited, hand-printed runs. Jeff Brooks is the creator of these marvelously simple and fun posters.







There’s lots more posters in Jeff’s gallery at gigposters.com.

The Creative Review Blog have a sneak preview of some of the excellent work that’s made it into the Magazine’s 2008 Annual.

I particularly liked these posters for London super-club Fabric, created by Village Green (can’t find a link for them unfortunately).





When Fabric first opened their posters and flyers were of a really high standard, and although the production values have remained consistently high, they never really achieved the heights of the collages created by Love in the club’s early days. Great then to see the club’s design work back to it’s slightly disturbing best with these unusually sinister characters created by Village Green’s Tom Darracott.

This poster for Spoon by Texas based F2-Design is printed with actual 45rpm records, making each one unique.



I'm also loving this one for New York Dolls in Chicago:



There’s loads more great posters at the F2-Design site, and if you’re quick you can snap up some of the remaining limited editions.

Sounds like a band, but The Small Stakes is in fact the name of Jason Munn’s Oakland California based independent design studio. Jason turns out a mean poster, as evidenced by his work below for bands like Broken Social Scene and The Postal Service.



There are loads more fantastic posters for sale in The Small Stakes shop.

I know it’s nearly summer when it’s once again it’s time to create an e-flyer for my favourite client Sancho Panza’s yearly series of boat parties. This year I decided to do something a little bit different so instead of creating the usual interactive extravaganza, I made a poster.



It's accompanied by a simple e-flyer where punters are offered a free PDF they can print themselves. They also have the option to order a high-quality print from zazzle.com. Zazzle is a print on demand service based in the US which allows you to configure your poster with a number of options including paper stock and print size. Unfortunately there’s no equivalent to this service in the UK right now so if you want one and you're not in the US you’ll have to grapple with the not-too-difficult task of paying with a credit card in US Dollars.

Tonight’s random surfing turned up this excellent poster for Philadelphia based band Audible by Philadelphia based illustrator extraordinaire Tim Gough. You can see lots more of his posters at GigPosters.com.



Tim also produces Cut and Paste, a beautiful hand-crafted zine he describes as “a collection of abandoned ideas, random doodles, and half finished leftovers” – you can order a copy from his shop.

After finding piece of work I liked, it was once again well worth while digging around the studio responsible’s website – in this case One Fine Day. James Joyce's (great name) work is simple, fun and refreshingly direct in nature. I particularly love this "dials" image from the contact page:



You can buy one of James’ limited edition screenprints in the One Fine Day shop.

Get Involved is a monthly club night at The Social in London. They approach a different designer or image–maker to create the poster for each event. Build, Anthony Burrill and Jon Burgerman have all had a go.

I particularly loved this contribution by James Joyce / One Fine Day:



Build's contribution turned the idea on it's head once again, inviting anyone to download their template poster and create their own version.





You can see all the versions of Build's poster at the Get Involved site, where there's also a full archive of all the monthly posters.

I spotted this great series of posters for Neuf Music which brilliantly illustrate the slogan "Make your mix". Shame the website they are advertising is particularly poorly designed.