It was a great pleasure to have created a poster for this show. I love both bands and it's really cool that they chose a local artist from Argentina for the job. It always feels special to create posters for shows in Buenos Aires.
The poster is inspired by the Planetarium of Buenos Aires and if you look closer, this poster is connected with my last Foo Fighters poster from Sioux Falls, South Dakota.
The poster is inspired by the waterfalls from Falls Park in South Dakota. I thought it would be cool to do a mix between those waterfalls, the sculptures from Mount Rushmore and some aliens heads. It was a great pleasure to have created a poster for the band. I've been listening to their records since I was a kid and it's definitely another dream come true! MarianoOfficial poster for Foo Fighters - November 11th, Sioux Falls, South Dakota
"I'm really happy to have created a poster for this tour, I love their music and I always wanted to design for them!
And of course, the poster is inspired by the song Head Like a Haunted House from their last record." - Mariano Arcamone
I got inspired by one of the lyrics from his latest record: "Death is the pill that's tough to swallow". So instead of working with a pill, I thought it would be cool to do this mix between a skull and a traditional South American infused drink, called "Mate". "El Mate" is prepared by steeping dried leaves of yerba mate in hot water and is served with a metal straw from a hollow calabash gourd.Mariano has a small run of posters to sell, for copies please email him info@marianoarcamone.com.ar
I also include the David Bowie's lightning bolt in the background as a little tribute to Iggy's great friend. So, Iggy has a skull ring and now he has also a skull "Mate".
The songs were very emotional and full of pain, so after a couple of listens and inspired by some of the lyrics: "I can't stand the sound of my tears" and "the water shines over your eyes", the image of an eye with a tear quickly came to my head.For the promotional poster he created the packaging for that wooden figure.
The main song of the single is called "Burn" so I thought it would be cool to make the vinyl jacket looks like a matchbook.
The chorus of that song has the phrase "I just wanna burn your memory away". After a couple of days working on a concept that fits well with that phrase, I got the idea of some kind of voodoo doll, but instead of having a rag doll to stuck some pins into it, I thought it would be cool to have a little wooden figure that you can burn to forget.
