One enormous word, one spot ink, and printer's furniture.

Retro print posters built around one enormous word — halftone photo, spot colour, registration marks and grid furniture. Use for event flyers, playlist and podcast covers, merch prints, announcement graphics and any request for retro poster, swiss punk, print ephemera or bold-type layout.
The exact brief that produced the image above.
Retro print poster on cream stock, filling the frame. A very coarse black halftone photograph of a 1960s ribbon microphone fills the centre, the dot pattern large and clearly visible. The words ON AIR are set enormous in a heavy ultra-bold condensed sans in deep vermilion red, overlapping the microphone so the halftone shows through the counters of the letters. Small uppercase details in the upper corners inside thin ruled boxes. Crop marks at the corners, thin registration crosses, slight ink misalignment, no gradients, very high contrast.
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