36. DJG DESIGN
“Happy accidents and angelic stumbles are great, but one has to think, too ... and in some cases, not think,” remarks Danny Gibson. Designing this poster called for a sizable pinch of both.

The Vines poster story began one fine day years ago, when Gibson’s roommate lined his kitchen cabinets with a jaunty vineprinted contact paper; he stashed the leftover paper roll in Gibson’s basement studio. Another fine day, three years later, Gibson spied a listing announcing that Australian rock bands The Vines and Jet were touring near his town, Kansas City, Mo. Serendipity met inspiration with a resounding thwap. Gibson says, “Without a client’s request or even permission to do so, I adhered the paper onto old posters—I found them in the dumpster at my day job as a janitor—slapped a few words on with spray paint to simulate rock band gear stenciling and rubber stamps, and then made some crafty incisions and dices, to present the appearance of a suitcase.

“Thus, I cranked out a large stack of limited-edition, easy-to-carry, diecut, anti-computer-concert-advertisements for The Vines and Jet,” he concludes. Amen to little wings of inspiration! Jude Stewart