What does a Singing Group have to do with Graphic Design?

The singing group is a client and I'm the designer. Cascade Foothills Chorale just completed their spring concert and I have had the pleasure of designing their posters for the last two years.

Their concerts always have a theme and this spring it was “All-Occasions” for the all occasion cards that used to be advertised in the backs of magazines. Their concert featured songs for the various celebrations that happen throughout the year.

To capture the theme I selected images from Flickr Commons that invoked most of the prominent US celebrations throughout the year. I was more concerned about how everything fit together in a collage rather than a sequential layout. You can see New Years Day, Valentine’s Day, Mother’s Day, Father’s Day, St. Patrick’s Day, Easter, Flag Day, July 4^th (the American flag represents both), Halloween, Thanksgiving, Martin Luther King, Jr Day, and Christmas. 

All of it was created in Photoshop and I used a lot of masking to merge, combine, or overlap images. 

I thought a vintage look would be appropriate and selected Snell Roundhand for the font and added a dark orange shadow for the edge of the poster.