NORTHERN NIGHTS MUSIC FESTIVAL 2016

SETTING A HYPERREAL SCENE

After the success of the 2015 poster, I was fortunate to be asked back by the Northern Nights people to have a go at 2016’s. Rather than do a repeating look à la Coachella’s iconic poster, we decided instead to make each year a distinct illustration in the same style, from a different vantage point. Once again, we made the festival’s gorgeous Humboldt County setting the real star of the show. This was an enormously challenging project, since I was working from a blurry Google Earth image and a couple of very low-res onsite photos, extrapolating what it would all come together as on the night: the mountains, the trees, the fog, the canopy of night sky, the lights playing against the smoke and fog. It’s all there. A huge undertaking, but with terrific results.