Copy/Paste/Print/Repeat: Mike King & the Art of the Gig Poster

Exhibition design for Copy/Paste/Print/Repeat: Mike King & the Art of the Gig Poster on view at Poster House. Mike King is America’s most prolific gig poster artist. What began as a means of promoting his own bands’ shows in the late 1970s gradually morphed into a full-time specialty in the art of the eye-catching concert poster.

The posters in this exhibition are a mere slice of a much larger visual pie—a taste of some of Mike’s rarest posters from a thirty-year spread within his ongoing career. They highlight shifts in both the available technology for making posters, from fully analog to digital, as well as how the function of gig posters has evolved from advertisements to collectible merchandise.

Scope
Design and Layout, Typography

Poster Layout
John Lynch

Art Direction
Ola Baldych

Photography
Samuel Morgan