FOO FIGHTERS
Every once in a while, a cold email comes across your inbox where someone wants you to make a gig poster for the Foo Fighters—a band that I had a poster of on my wall, and a band that I voted for on TRL. When you get an email like that, you of course say, “fuck yeah, dude.”
What’s more, is it was a birthday show for Dave Grohl’s 57th. Which he and the band took as an opportunity to do a benefit show raising money for Hope United: Hope the Mission - the largest rescue mission network in the region, operating dozens of interim housing and recovery sites - and Los Angeles Mission, a historic Skid Row pillar serving individuals and families in downtown Los Angeles since 1936. Together, these groups provide nearly 4 million meals and over 1 million nights of shelter annually across Los Angeles County.
The posters were silk screened on French Paper, marked with hologram seals, and hand humbered. Foo Fighters did 600 for the event, and 30 artist prints were signed and hand numbered by me. The artist prints were sold by me directly and sold out in a few hours.
The poster design was used to promote the show on social media, elements were isolated and placed around the exterior and interior of the Kia Forum, and they even made Dave a special birthday cake with the poster design on it.
