flommist gigposter for peter murphy

Flomm is in­spired by ear­ly mod­ern art the way the Bauhaus band was in­spired by the Bauhaus and Ger­man Ex­pres­sion­ism evolved into post-punk goth.

And Bauhaus lead Pe­ter Mur­phy will be hit­ting us up lo­cal­ly next week­end (deets below). 

Mur­phy is tour­ing acousti­cal­ly ‘stripped’ and il­lus­tra­tor (and flom­mist) Galine Tu­masyan craft­ed the lo­cal gig­poster:

 

Here’s a short con­ver­sa­tion I had with Galine about the min­i­mal broadside:

26 NO­VEM­BER 2016
9:37 P.M. PT

MEHAL­LO    Where did your con­cept start? With Bauhaus or his post-Bauhaus work?

galine
No mat­ter how his mu­sic changes, Pe­ter Mur­phy has a very time­less aes­thet­ic that al­ways makes me think of straight lines, black and white and twist­ed fig­u­ra­tive work – some­what in the style of Egon Schiele. If you think about it, Pe­ter Mur­phy IS an Egon Schiele construct!

MEHAL­LO    When de­vel­op­ing an il­lus­tra­tion, how do you start? What’s your process?

galine
I try to get to the bot­tom of the sub­ject mat­ter. Learn a few things, make a list and think of the im­agery that goes with this list. Like a mindmap, of sorts.

Un­used concept

MEHAL­LO    How did you get into illustration?

galine
I al­ways been paint­ing and draw­ing be­cause of my fam­i­ly. Art is sort of a fam­i­ly tra­di­tion – how­ev­er, what ap­pealed to me about il­lus­tra­tion is the prob­lem-solv­ing as­pect. Il­lus­tra­tion is an op­por­tu­ni­ty to col­lab­o­rate and in­ter­pret the ideas of oth­ers, while telling a sto­ry that is ei­ther theirs or my own.

MEHAL­LO    You work has shades of J.C. Leyen­deck­er through­out. How do you see your­self his­tor­i­cal­ly placed?

galine
I’m glad you have men­tioned Leyen­deck­er, he is one of my main clas­si­cal in­flu­ences! His­tor­i­cal­ly, I’m in­trigued by the 1960s MOD move­ment; ad­ver­tis­ing-in­spired pop art.

MEHAL­LO    Last we talked, you were in a psy­che­del­ic band. How does this ex­pe­ri­ence in­flu­ence your work?

galine
I have a new band now called Sea Blite. The fo­cus is much dif­fer­ent. I’ve been around 60s mu­sic for so long, now it’s time to try some­thing else – liv­ing in the real MOD­ern phi­los­o­phy of go­ing for­ward and try­ing new things. This band is very in­spir­ing – the im­agery we use is main­ly pop-art and what was once called bone­head de­sign back in the 1980s, so both go hand in hand and in­spire each other.

 

 

 

For mor of Galine’s work, here’s web­site, twit­ter, in­sta­gram, face­book, and her shop.

Pe­ter Mur­phy plays lo­cal­ly – Sacra­men­to, Cal­i­for­nia, Sun­day 4 De­cem­ber 2016 at Harlow’s. His tour sched­ule can be found here.
 

—steve mehal­lo

Flom­mist Steve Mehal­lo is a graph­ic de­sign­er, il­lus­tra­tor, font de­sign­er, ed­u­ca­tor, food­ie and gad­fly. He is the cre­ator and founder of FLOMM!

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