Foo Fighters Poster Sacramento 2021

Foo Fighters poster Sacramento 2021

What a long, weird couple of years that was!

My third Foo Fighters poster Sacramento was a wild, intergalactic tableau of the band as galactic prisoners — complete with shock collars — performing for an arena full of aliens and robots who are moshing, fighting, and arguing beneath holographic show information projected overhead as spaceships cruise by.

My first collaboration with Foo Fighters was a concert poster for their 2018 Milwaukee gig. After that, I worked with them again in 2020 on a set of limited-edition prints. At the time, during the lockdowns, the band was planning to do a few virtual Zoom shows and commission a series of posters for each.
I wanted to create something that spoke to that moment — the idea of performing remotely, appearing as holograms on screen. So my concept was to portray the band as holographic figures playing inside a Star Wars-style cantina. Those shows never ended up happening, but the concept stuck with me.
A year later, when touring returned and the band announced a date in Sacramento, I put in for the assignment and got it. I revisited that earlier hologram idea — only this time, the band themselves became the aliens and robots. The setting evolved into a full galactic arena filled with surly creatures moshing and brawling under glowing lights. A few of the foreground aliens from that original concept even made their way into this final Foo Fighters poster Sacramento design.