Gig Posters Volume 2: Rock Show Art of the 21st Century

by Clay Hayes

Readers gave the first Gig Posters anthology a standing ovation—so for your viewing pleasure, here’s one heck of an 700 more incredible posters from the archives of GigPosters.com, the Internet’s premier destination for concert poster art. It’s a mad jam of illustration and photography, collage and typography, bringing the contemporary music scene to exciting visual life for a generation of fans who’ve grown up in the post-album-art era.

Gig Posters Volume 2 showcases bold artistic riffing by a hundred of today’s most talented designers, including David V. D’Andrea, Peter Cardoso, Graham Pilling, Tyler Stout, Marq Spusta, and Nashville’s legendary Hatch Show Print. You’ll peek inside their portfolios and hear the backstage stories of how these incredible art-and-music creations came to be.

You’ll also find 101 perforated and ready-to-frame posters promoting the most dynamic musical acts of the twenty-first century, from the Black Keys, Flight of the Conchords, Ice-T, and My Morning Jacket to Norah Jones, the Avett Brothers, Coheed & Cambria, and many, many more.

It’s an awesome compendium of pop-art-history in the making—and it’s also just what the walls of your apartment or office have been waiting for. 

Genres: Art

208 pages, Paperback

First published November 1, 2011

Reviews

[Susan S · Rating 5 out of 5]

I love this book, and volume 1 too. Great posters by great artists. Pages are perforated, easy to frame. Buy it at gigposters.com and you will get a free limited edition print. There is also other great merch to check out as well.

[Am Y · Rating 4 out of 5]

A huge compilation of hundreds of gig posters in many different styles, by many different artists. A brief artist bio accompanies them. Lots of inspiration to be found here!

[Sari · Rating 5 out of 5]

I was lucky enough to recently receive a review copy of Quirk Books' Gig Posters Volume 2 by Clay Hayes. What an awesome book! It's huge, first of all, and loaded full of amazing posters for music shows. I personally love music posters - I grew up in the era of record albums and would spend hours looking at the sleeves and the liner notes. There was plenty of room for art and there were always all sorts of cool things inside. Music posters are, to me, right along the same line.

The book is sorted by the artists who created the posters, with assorted small pictures and a full page spread of their work. There are descriptions of the posters from how they were made to how the ideas for the designs came about.

There's a great variety of bands - from world famous to I-never-heard-of-them-before but the posters are all top notch and from shows in the last year or two. The best part of the book? All of the full size posters are perforated so you can remove them from the book, frame them and hang them on your wall! Now my only problem is finding enough wall space.

[Frank · Rating 4 out of 5]

Obviously, a very cool collection of the best concert poster artists. Only problem is you'll want to buy half the book and who really has that kind of money or wall space?