01 Read fast
Distance
Can you identify the artist, the date, and the action before you have read a word of small type?
Graphic design for artists, promoters, and brands
Design built for the show, the drop, and the brand.
Obsidian Graphics creates concert posters, tour graphics, cover art, campaign assets, brand identities, and digital presentation materials built for real placements and real deadlines.
Suga Free, Concert Poster
- Real work
- Shown as delivered
- Custom direction
- Production-ready files
- Project-specific scope
- Digital and print applications
Selected work
The work is the proof.
6 pieces of live and event design, shown exactly as delivered. Open any piece to inspect it at full size.
The read test
Read fast. Hold up close. Carry across the campaign.
A graphic has to work in more than one moment. Every finished piece is checked three ways, using the delivered file and nothing else.
02 Hold up close
Detail
Does the typography, the image treatment, and the texture hold when you get close?
03 Carry across the campaign
Format
Does the direction stay recognizable when the frame changes?
Run the read test
2 of 6 pieces are here. The full Read Test runs all 6.
Services
One studio. Four clear lanes.
Live and event, release and campaign, brand identity, digital and presentation. Every lane starts with what the piece has to do.
Live and event
Graphics that make the artist, date, venue, and action read quickly.
Concert posters · Event flyers · Tour posters · Show-run graphics · Tour-date graphics
Release and campaign
One visual direction carried through the placements a release or campaign requires.
Cover art · Single and album artwork · Advertising creative · Social graphics · Campaign graphics
Brand identity
Recognizable visual systems built to remain consistent wherever the brand appears.
Logo design · Brand marks · Typography direction · Color systems · Visual rules
Digital and presentation
Professional assets built for real digital layouts, presentations, pitches, sponsor conversations, and sales environments.
Web graphics · Banners · Pitch decks · Presentation graphics · Sales graphics
Format shift
One direction. Every required placement.
Pick a piece and move it through the read test and the placements a campaign asks for. Delivered files are labeled delivered. Everything else is labeled a presentation preview.
The delivered composition at its full proportion.
1122 × 1402 px as delivered
Every piece here was delivered as one file. Frames marked presentation preview show how the delivered composition sits in other placements. They were not delivered and do not imply a result.
The artist name and the words Live in Concert are the only things that need to survive at thumbnail size, and they do.
The headline carries beveled chrome edges, the red rule is a single thin line, and the skyline is layered behind the portraits at reduced contrast so it never competes with the faces.
Presentation preview. Not a delivered format.
Presentation preview. Not a delivered format.
Presentation preview. Not a delivered format.
Total Chaos and One Night Only read at any size. The collage texture signals the genre before a single word is read.
The information lives on torn white paper so it stays legible over the collage, and the venue, date, doors, support acts, age, and ticket line are stacked in one consistent block.
Presentation preview. Not a delivered format.
Presentation preview. Not a delivered format.
Presentation preview. Not a delivered format.
Suga Free, Concert Poster
Ways to work
Start at the right scale.
From one decisive asset to ongoing support. The engagement starts with the real scope, not a bundle.
- One asset
Starter Design Pass
A focused asset for a show, release, campaign, deck, or brand moment.
Start a project - One campaign
Campaign Asset Kit
One visual direction carried across the real formats needed for a launch, announcement, or campaign.
Start a project - Full identity
Full Brand System
A complete and usable visual identity for a project, company, artist, venue, or brand that needs consistency.
Start a project - Ongoing support
Monthly Creative Retainer
Recurring creative support for an artist, promoter, company, venue, agency, or team with continuing design needs.
Start a project
Scope, timing, deliverables, and price are confirmed for each project.
Process
Direction before decoration.
The work starts with what the piece has to do, where it has to run, and what has to be delivered.
Brief
The brief determines the build.
Direction
Direction before decoration.
Design
Build the hierarchy before the effects.
Revision
Focused feedback improves the approved direction.
Delivery
Final files are named, sized, and exported for their actual use.
- See how it works
Selected project
Whitey NW, Show Run
A show-run poster for three Northwest dates. The artist's logotype sits at the top under stage lights, three portraits of the artist in a black shirt fill the middle, and a chrome headline reads Whitey NW with Live in red beneath. The line 3 Shows. 3 Nights. Northwest Takeover. introduces a three-column date block: June 6th at The Waypost in Portland, June 7th at The Fun House in Seattle, and June 8th at The 520 in Albany.
- Deliverable
- Show-run poster
- Lane
- Live and event
- Delivered as
- One portrait graphic. File shown at 1122 × 1402 px.
Start a project
Have a show, release, campaign, or brand to build?
Send a brief. The studio replies with a written scope: deliverables, dimensions, placements, deadline, revision process, usage, and price.