...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.

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.

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.

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.