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Rip Curl Boardmasters Festival - Poster Designs
We spent a very wet weekend at the annual Ripcurl Boardmasters Festival held in Newquay, Cornwall. The Boardmasters event celebrates surf, skate and music with the Vans Skate competition, the Ripcurl Surf competition and the Unleashed Music Festival.
We were wondering through Newquay and found a Ripcurl shop sporting all the usual surf gear as well as all the previous posters promoting the Festival. It is interesting to see how the event posters have evolved over time.
As you can see the posters were originally very photo driven and have evolved over time to incorporate heavy use of vector graphics. It’s interesting to see that they never seem to use the same logo design, but each years logo utilises the use of the wings and blocky fonts. The posters all seem similar in style - they all look very distressed and rough and a lot of attention is given to the typography. However,as each year goes on, they have shifted the focus from surf and skate to music - the posters have to reflect the evolution of the festival.
There are other Ripcurl events held internationally and I have popped a couple of posters below, I love the use of the clean lines and illustrations for the female events.
So what do you think of these poster designs? Over used vectors and destroyed look that you’ve seen too many times before? Or nice sense of style and branding?
Tags: branding, Graphic Design, poster design
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