flashback friday: stephen kellogg and the sixers tour book

somewhere between finishing college and my last internship and getting my first design gig, i made a tour book for this band i loved purely for the joy of it (and maybe to practice my book design skills). they didn’t hire me for this but they were aware and cool with it.

i worked with a few fans i knew to submit photos and stories from each show and to help gather each setlist and i also asked the band for a favour (see the end page), and i had the books self-published to a print-on-demand site that fans could order a copy if they wanted to.

since it wasn’t official merch i didn’t really promote it—but any (little bit of) money i did make off of it i’m positive went right back to supporting the band anyway. ;)

ps. it’s fun to see how design styles, trends, and my skills (why did i put blue text on a black page????) have changed and improved over the years—but some aspects of design really are timeless, such as good type setting and typography.