My mate Scott Agnew (Scottish Comedian of the Year 2008, and a finalist in 2010's 'Take The Mic' competition) e-mailed me on Friday night, in a terribly panicked state. He explained to me that his Edinburgh Fringe show, "Pride (In The Name of Love)" was due to start on Wednesday (which is tonight!), and that his usual graphic designer had been rendered unavailable due to a family emergency which required him to return home with all due haste.
This unfortunate turn of events left Scott in the unhappy, and quite stressful position of having a month long run starting in less than a week, but having no flyers with which to publicise his grand comedic opus! He then asked if I could perhaps step into the breach and provide him with a rush job over the weekend, which I duly agreed to do. He roughly explained the motivation behind the idea he and his other designer had been working on, and left me to interpret it in my own way.
A few hours later, I'd produced what you see above. He seemed to be very pleased with them, so much so that he asked me to scale up the design for an A3 poster, because the venue were giving him a hard time about not having any.
Cutting to the end of the story, after a lot of worrying on my part about whether or not the flyers would turn out as well in printed form as they looked on screen, I have just recently been informed that they have turned out brilliantly, and are currently being disseminated to the great and the good of the Edinburgh Festival Fringe scene as we speak! WOOP!
GO SEE IT! HE'S HILARIOUS!
