Everything about Gig Posters

IdleBeats has just come out with two new Japanese inspired posters for the CAMERA JAPAN Festival in Holland this fall. The festival is an annual event that celebrates Japanese culture, art, music but especially film.




IdleBeats' own Gregor Koerting was asked to design two great posters for the festival this year. The two unique posters each display a different character from Japanese culture: the geisha, and the tengu. The geisha, more well-known outside Japan than the tengu, is a refined artesian of Japanese culture who is skilled in the art of dance, music, tea ceremony, and conversation. Geisha still exist today in Japan. The tengu, less graceful than the geisha, is a demon known to protect Japan’s mountains and forests. Tengu are still worshiped as Shinto gods in shrines all over Japan.





The theme of this year’s CAMERA JAPAN Festival is “Made in Japan?” which is exactly what the characters on the left hand side of each poster mean. Any western elements you might notice in the poster pertain to this 'made in Japan(or not?)' theme, such as the windmill in the geisha’s hair which is definitely a Dutch element as well as the bucket of popcorn in tengu's hand.





Two posters are both with 4 layers, hand-printed by the artist Gregor Koerting himself. Geisha has an edition of 109 and Tengu only 95. Both prints are on high quality art paper and printed with water-based silk screeen paint. Also every order of a pair comes with a bonus gift!
Grab them here: Geisha & Tengu

IdleBeats recently designed gig posters for two concerts of American band Crystal Stilts' European tour, Gregor from IdleBeats has also invited many poster designers around world to create artworks for other stops of the band's whole tour.

Here comes Mr.Gregor Koerting's masterpiece for Manchester first:



The artwork is inspired by the music as well as the album name.
“A forgotten corner in a museum, an unknown space or people's heart.” - as the artist explains.



It's a 2-color print on 250gsm matte argental art paper, first layer with smooth gradient effect all printed by hand. Silver paper reflects delicate color variations under different lights and environment, this poster is def a piece that worthy collecting and enjoying for a long time.



Get one HERE via our online shopping cart or Etsy.

This one called"She Follows Me Into The Forest" is created by Nini Sum for the band's London concert. Both the visual and name inspiration come from the first song 'Sycamore Tree' of the band's latest album.


It's also the first time that we tried to use water-based luminous(glow-in-dark) paint -on the eyes and pyramid part. It spreads out a quiet and beautiful glow in darkness after absorbing enough light.



We are quite happy with the quality of the prints as well as the glow-in-dark effect. The paper is also a collector choice - thick double-side pearl silver card that generates delicate color reflections when you look at it from different angles.





Grab one HERE. if you are also friends with pyramid and crows.

Clickhere to see some of other artists' work。

New poster design by Nini for Dubway(Thailand) and Sub-Culture (Shanghai)'s gig at Chiangmai bar in Thailand.

We recently designed and hand-printed this gig poster for Maybe Mars' Shanghai showcase at 'JUE' music + art festival, a concert of two awesome Chinese bands - AV OKUBO and SNAPLINE.

These two bands are both great but with different music styles, so Nini hand-drew a Fire Dragon to stand for the spirit of Av Okubo and a Sea Monster as the Snapline part, maybe you can feel the hot and coldness while listening to them.



"JUE | Music + Art is an independent urban arts and music festival in both Shanghai and Beijing. Now in its third year, JUE is a collection of alternative, creative and progressive arts and music events over a three-week period every March, presented by Split Works."

'Late night Screen Printing Club' activating!




Done! 4 colors + 60 edition in all.


We will be selling this batch along with other IdleBeats handmade art on the concert night at Dream Factory. Come grab one and more importantly - don't miss this great show!

Check out the posters(originally designed by Zeke Clough) we printed recently for Shackleton's gig at The Shelter (Shanghai) this Saturday, we are so exicited to work with Sub-Culture creating such well-designed and high quality posters, hand-pulled gig poster art finally arrives in Shanghai!









Let's see what SmartShanghai says as well:

"Aces of bass, Sub-Culture have a big show on their hands this Saturday when they welcome in Skull Disco co-founder, and one of dubstep's most original voices, Shackleton in to Shanghai for his first show ever at The Shelter. It's going to be a huge deal, and they're doing it right, bringing in extra speakers and sub-woofers for this thing. It's the biggest one they've done so far -- it's excessive. I think they're just trying to show that they haven’t gone soft.

Every month, the Sub-Culture crew is inviting locally-based and international artists and graphic designers to design their event posters, and in collaboration with Nini Sum and IdleBeats, they're silk screening them up and making them available for purchase on the night. It's a really great idea -- hand-done, silk-screened images by unique graphic designers that you can buy for cheap, go get framed, and use to spruce up your living room. We've got some pictures of Idle Beats silk screening these Shackelton posters. Scroll all the way down for those.

For their first go with the concept, they've got artwork from Zeke Clough, a UK-based artist who designed all the sleeves for all the Skull Disco releases. His own distinctive style has been incorporated as "the look" of Skull Disco these past few years, but he's also done stuff for Mordant Music and Warp Records. Last but not least, his art work has also been featured in Wire, which we all know, is the Greatest Music Magazine in the World.

Speaking as someone with absolutely no real background in illustration (I checked out of comics sometime during the Bronze Age), I would describe Clough's style as The Misfits reading Zap Comics whilst high on hot knives. Possibly also listening to Cannibal Corpse. Maybe a documentary on Norwegian Black Metal is on in the background. Check out Zeke Clough on the web right here, and don't forget to check out his comic strips."

See below for the printing process, thanks much to Gregor for the help!







5 of the 33 are available to purchase via our online store, you can also pick one up at "Sub-Culture pres. Shackleton" this Saturday @ The Shelter. Support is from the Sub-Culture crew. Cover is only 50rmb.