Prescient Media designs for The New Lines
June 27, 2009 | Tags: graphic design, music, poster design, The New Lines
As brutal as the New York weather has been in recent weeks — and promises to be for at least another week — the rain last Sunday was just sporadic enough to let much of the Make Music NYC festival go off as planned: 850 concerts of every conceivable type in every corner of the city, especially outdoors.
The New Lines, a Brooklyn-based band that plays reverby, melancholy, melodic pop influenced in equal measures by Stephin Merritt, Broadcast, and Joy Division, had a pair of concerts at the festival. Mastermind multi-instrumentalist Hewson Chen asked Prescient Media to produce a poster in the old Bauhaus spirit for a pair of concerts it played that day.
If you were around Williamsburg/Bushwick that Saturday night or Sunday, you may have seen the result:
