Your Thoughts on Flyer Design
Hey Guys 
im starting a Darkpsy/Full-o Psytrance night in october and ive decided to begin to start designing the flyer for the event im not great at art or nothin so i kept things basic yet eye catching (i hope 
) could you guys please let me know what you think, all input is greatly welcome cheers D2D 
donāt use the first picture. at first glance i couldnāt even tell that the random shapes were text. you have to make your typography easy to read so that people donāt have to strain to understand what theyāre looking at.
but the second picture is pretty nice for the most part.
-cut out the ābass +trebleā words itās confusing and distracting. If you need to keep it atleast lower the opacity or use smaller font so that it doesnāt draw the eye away from the important text.
-add some light texture to the background. the flat grey is boring if youāre just using Text and no other imagery to capture the eye.
ill start to make a few changes then i did come up with a more clear flyer but accidently fattened image so cant get the rear of the flyer how i would want even tho i do think it was a better design im just stumped on what to do with it. heres what it looked like if your interested hehe
Mate, i would use the second one, minus the bullet holes and volume images, and find a cool psychedelic or tech background, overlay the text etc on that and jazz it up a bit with drop shadows etc. Iāve been to a lot of psy parties and most of the flyers are pretty simple looking but effective. looking forward to seeing the final result dude
not trying to take this over or anything..iām just really bored and love flyer design
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techy with the fonts..psy-y with the graphics, just some ideas to throw out there. hope it helps/inspires you in some way
niice. more time spare for photoshop till ya get your gear sorted eh
seriously..sitting here staring at my tablesā¦mixing the same 5 vinyls.. you may not hear from me for a while after i get that audio 8.. iām going through withdrawals
woah you wipped that up quick, nice one bro!
Id say never use Photoshop Filters that have been done to death like āExtrudeā.
The thing with Flyer design is , its all relative to the Genre.
The D&B scene uses design that would not be use by the House scene and blah blah.
Its all about whats relative but forward thinking at the same time.
The Indie scene in UK has gone back to that whole cut n paste , marker pen , hand drawn thing. Its boring but thats the way it is. Some time ago all flyers had animals on them. Try to avoid cliches and never have a picture of a turntable on a flyer hahaha
Hey guys thanks for input, i did think the typeface in the first flyer i posted was a little confusing myself but thought it added a trippy edge to the front but in the end i didnt realy think that flyer looked good with other fonts on my pc. so in the end i scaped the whole thing and started afresh. Im trying to keep the flyer simple yet eyecatching as i said in first post but i am still a photoshop noob hehe. i do like your flyer djhipnotikk very underground feeling like the night will be but i canāt do that kinda stuff when i try
I find having just to stick to one type of design due to the scene very hard to do as so many things are visualy apealing and i generaly like alsorts of flyers ive seen over the years and just thought id try something different to the usual just to be slightly different from the rest, but i do see your point and will try to address it in future designs i try speaking of which hehe heres what ive been working on this time.
iām diggin the new design. only thing i would change would be to add some soft kind of patterns in the background on the gray part.
Iām prersonally not to sure about bright pink circles for darkpsy, but that could just be my unfamiliarity with the genre showing through.
That being said, Iād go to the show if I saw that flyer.
im a professional graphic designer and i used to work as a fulltime flyer/club designer for 3 years (worked and still do some stuff for club exit www.myspace.com/exit and worked for club pacha vilnius for about 6 months). IMO you should avoid cheesy ambient-ish backgrounds or do them more simple.
donāt use those extra-fancy-matrix-like fonts and those techno-wannabe fonts. go with the classics first (helvetica was my favourite for a long time, avantgarde bold is great as well) until you feel strong and can judge if the font is good or bad. i know it sounds stupid, but thatās the way it goes
my portfolio (tho i havent updated it for more than a year now) www.vytisgruzdys.com
and my blog about flyer design www.flyingflyer.net . in the blog you can find some nice inspirations!
hope it helps!
and we should keep this thread alive as flyers are one really important part in club scene. it reflects the club. if i get shitty flyer i usually dont even look deeper into it.
not meaning to thread jack..but would you mind critiquing my designs? iāve used some of these publicly, some of them are waiting to be used..but here are some:
http://indydesigns.net/img/flyer1.jpg
http://indydesigns.net/img/flyer2.jpg
http://indydesigns.net/img/flyer3.jpg
http://indydesigns.net/img/flyer4.jpg
http://indydesigns.net/img/studiofest.jpg
http://indydesigns.net/img/omenpt2.jpg
any constructive criticism would be greatly appreciated
i dont think that anyone would mind you showing your designs!
ok. i try to make it short and simple:
the best flyer from the ones youāve shown is http://indydesigns.net/img/studiofest.jpg
text sizes are ok except the price and address, they are too big.
colour scheme is nice. font colour stays the same - good!
im not a fan of that kind of font, but it looks quite good.
i donāt like that in the upper part you use orange dynamic object and in the lower part you use red static lines. i would use the same orange theme in the lower part as well.
hope my comments make sense and will help!
Hey man i took a look at your portfolio, your stuff is really dope. Do you have any advice for people who want to get education/training in graphic design? Iām actually in the process of looking into schools for design and Iām trying to decide between taking a 4 year university program or a condensed 1-2 year intensive at an art college. Any tips for choosing the right program/school?
hey guys thanks again for input, gonna try putting new font into the djās part the letter āIā aint showing very well ive noticed, been trying a more trippy design out this evening with the input of my fellow promoters and seems ok so far. nice stuff in the portfolio dude wish i had good design skills hehe
getting date for the event on tuesday too so gonna have to try sort something out for certain flyer wise so i can get promoting, we have got an ok amount of people interested in our night too, we have been throwing outdoor partys for past few months and its kicking off more than i thought had 150+ people at first real party as some we just had a big group of friends, we are having another outdoor gig on friday and from whats being said its gonna be anything up to 300 people this time.
Heres todays attemt anyhoo
oops just to add was gonna leave shoot thru logo (bit with bullet holes) as all the peeps who come to our partys know us as shoot thru
thats looking a lot more psychedelic mate
maybe i shouldnāt have askedā¦
no but seriously thanks for the time, i really do appreciate the feedback. i donāt really consider myself a pro at flyer design, but graphic design has always been a passion of mine, though i may not be professionally schooled in it
but anyway, new design is lookin spot on brother, iām diggin it.
