UP AND RUNNING AT LAST

Baseline has been lucky enough to have done a considerable amount of music-related work over the course of our seven year history, and in one form or another, we’ve been responsible for the design work involved with the T in the Park festival from its very first year (through promoters DF Concerts) since WAY back in 1994.

A passion for music and a passion for the best parts of graphic design has been realised and inspired by the approach taken by the many talented people producing screen printed gig posters in the USA. And as a small design studio in Scotland, we’ve been extremely fortunate enough to try our hands at this type of design work, either through enlightened clients or off our own backs. Since the first one, it’s been love at first sight.

Exposures have been (almost!) calculated, emulsion coatings have been sweated over and sleeves have been rolled up to stop them getting covered in ink along with everything else, but we’re now almost there with getting a working set-up fine tuned and fully up and running after a heavy learning curve.

The first test prints are now under our belts (using colour scheme variations of our SxSW Scottish Showcase poster design) and commercially available work will then be the next big step for us.

THE JESUS AND MARY CHAIN

We simply couldn’t let the occasion pass when the reformed Mary Chain played the inaugral Connect music festival in Scotland last year. With a life-long Mary Chain fan at Baseline working on Connect’s design work for months on end, we approached the promoters – DF Concerts – with a view to doing something special for the Reid brothers playing again.
We designed this poster and produced a limited run – only 50 – of signed & numbered screenprinted A3’s which were presented to the promoters. Why? Because we really wanted to! Sometimes working in graphic design needs to be made that BIT more exciting…

SOUTH BY SOUTH WEST 07

Baseline was asked to design the the Scottish Showcase poster for South x South West for inclusion in the Flatstock poster exhibition which ran as part of SXSW in 2007. We’ve been asked to work again on SxSW in 2008 – for the third year running – by the Scottish Arts Council

VIVAMELODICA POSTER

After admiring US style rock posters from afar, this was the first poster we did which adopted the same kind of approach. It did help that there were realistic deadlines (ie, some time to actually do it in!) for turning this one around for a change – which may well have been the catalyst for trying something a bit different. A bit of a pastiche… but giant robots will always rock!!!! Sorry, ROCK!!!!

ARE YOU BLIND, OR… DID YOU JUST MISS IT?

This landed up being a ‘blink and you’ll miss it’ experience for Bluetones fans going along to see them in Perth earlier this year. Apparently on the day of the gig, all the posters somehow managed to completely vanish!
The band landed up never seeing them, which, for us, kind of defeated the purpose of doing them in the first place… However, we did take this gesture of mass-theft as a compliment on (we must say) some rather nice design work!