One-of-one concert posters

Every show you’ve ever been to. One poster.

Fillmore style poster titled A Concert Life: a giant pink and acid green flower over palm trees, a Ferris wheel and a cheering crowd, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Metallica and U2 in black lettering, and fourteen shows from 1983 to 2018 down both sides

A one-of-one gig poster of your whole concert life, drawn in one of five classic poster styles. Tell us the shows you remember, even the hazy ones, and we’ll research the missing details for you.

Here’s the whole show in thirty seconds.

Your cities end up in the artwork.

Not just the show list. The renderer reads where you saw your shows and works those places into the background, so the poster looks like the map of your concert life. These are details from our sample posters.

  • Close-up of an Art Nouveau poster: Big Ben, the Houses of Parliament and a stone bridge in cobalt against a gold sky, the Thames below and a blue iris in the corner

    London

    Hyde Park, Wembley, the Royal Albert Hall

    Big Ben and Parliament along the Thames

  • Close-up of a Fillmore-style poster: palm trees and a Ferris wheel before pink desert mountains under a rainbow sun, a crowd with raised hands in the foreground, in pink, acid green and black

    Indio, California

    Coachella and Desert Trip at the Empire Polo Club

    The palms, the Ferris wheel and the desert mountains

  • Close-up of a Modern Gig poster: the Austin skyline, the Capitol dome and a bridge over the river under a gold setting sun, in green and gold halftone

    Austin

    Austin City Limits, from Willie Nelson in ’74

    The skyline and the Capitol over the river at sunset

  • Where were your shows?

You were there. The details are… a little hazy.

No judgment. Was it ’97 or ’99? Who opened? Was that the same festival twice? Tell us what you’ve got (“Metallica, a muddy field, mid-90s?”) and we’ll track down the real date, the venue and the full lineup. You check every show before anything prints.

What you remembered

“Woodstock, in the mud. Metallica, Nine Inch Nails and Rage Against the Machine, all on one bill.”

What actually happened

Two Woodstocks, five years apart. Nine Inch Nails in 1994. Rage Against the Machine in 1999. Metallica played both.

Three steps. Zero homework.

  1. 01

    Tell us what you remember.

    A band, a city, a rough year. Guesses welcome. Start with a few shows and add more anytime.

  2. 02

    Pick your style and watch it come to life.

    Five styles, from 1960s Fillmore to Swiss modernism, plus a headline across the top. Your poster is designed in a few minutes. Not feeling it? Make up to three versions.

  3. 03

    Love it? Order it.

    We print it on archival cotton rag and ship it rolled, ready to frame. Designing is free; you pay only when you order.

Made to hang for the next 30 years of shows.

Hahnemühle Photo Rag, the cotton paper museums print on, with archival pigment inks: deep blacks, loud colour, no glare.

Close-up of the I Was There poster printed on cotton rag: the London skyline and the show list in sharp focus, the soft matte paper texture and its thick white edge curling up in raking light
Up close: 308 gsm cotton rag, archival pigment, no glare. Rendered close-up of a real sample design.
Size
18 × 24 inches (46 × 61 cm). Fits a standard frame.
Shows
Up to 30, 40 or 45, depending on the style. Headliners biggest, first show to last.
Paper
Hahnemühle Photo Rag: 308 gsm, 100% cotton, soft matte.
Ink
Fine art giclée with archival pigment inks. It won’t fade before you do.
Only your acts
Saw six bands at a fifteen-band festival? Your poster lists your six.
Shipping
Free worldwide. Rolled, never folded, in a rigid tube.
A framed A Concert Life poster hanging above a walnut record console with a turntable, in warm lamplight

Launch price

$99

Printed and shipped free worldwide · $129 after launch

Questions, answered.

I don’t remember half the details. Can I still do this?

That’s exactly who this is for. Give us a band and a rough year and we’ll find the rest. You approve every show before it prints.

Is it AI art?

The artwork is generated from scratch for your shows, in the tradition of the great poster makers, and every one is different. The research, the details and the final check are ours. We’d rather tell you than have you wonder. You give us a list of shows, nothing else: no photos, no uploads and no description of the picture. The imagery comes from our own library of classic poster motifs, and it never depicts a real person.

What is it printed on?

Hahnemühle Photo Rag, the German fine-art paper galleries and museums print on: 308 gsm, 100% cotton, with a soft, velvety matte surface and no glare. Archival pigment inks sit in the cotton fibres, so the blacks go deep, the colours stay vivid and it’s made to last for generations. It feels like an art print, because it is one.

How does shipping work?

Shipping is free worldwide. Your poster is printed to order at the lab nearest you and shipped rolled in a rigid tube, unframed and ready for the frame you choose. Outside the US it always ships with tracking, and import duties or taxes may be due on delivery.

Can I give one as a gift?

Yes. Buy a gift poster and we send a certificate to you, or email it to them on the day you pick. They tell us their shows and design their own. It never expires. Click here to gift a poster.

Your shows deserve art like this.

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