Poster assignment #2 (yowzah, yowzah, yowzah...)

There was a veritable explosion of 'men's magazines' in the years following the second world war. The vast majority of them were quite cheap and tacky, yet some of them employed effectively catchy graphics on the front cover to snag the attention of browsers at the local newstand. This is my homage to that visual style. Everything here is intended to keep those optic nerves a-jangling along, including a background of narrow contrasting stripes. There is something about misaligned letters in a line of script that tends to catch the eye. For the words 'kit' and 'kat', I used four different layers for each word: one for each background, and one for each letter, which made it a little easier to manipulate and position each element. 'Club' required five layers. I also wanted to use different typefaces, in different colors, on different backgrounds. Tacky, but it accomplishes its intended purpose. This is an advertisement for a venue that is concerned about neither a social nor visual aesthetic. The performance date was inspired by an ad I once saw in a newspaper for a 'special event' at a strip club on Thanksgiving(!). Just doing a quick count, I think this image had about 40 layers.