Portland Poster Pole

Poster Submission

Monday, June 1st, 2009

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Poster Submission requirements for the Portland Poster Pole

Poster should be a 12 x 18 inch .jpg or .pdf with at least 150 dpi

email posters as attachments to PortlandPosterPole@yahoo.com

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There are 3 types of posters.

1. Commercial admat style

–where you take a hi res promo photo and add a few flourishes

and a text area.

see http://www.concerts.com/tour/listing.aspx

http://portlandposterpole.com/ben-folds-portland-concert-poster/

2 Collage style Where you put together a collage of various images.

Somtimes including a picture of the band ( which you run through a few photoshop filters)

see

http://portlandposterpole.com/taking-back-sunday-portland-concert-poster/

and

http://concertposters.biz/foo-fighters/foo-fighters-weezer-600.jpg

3. Illustration style

http://www.newburycomics.com/images/bmh/BU/103-941671NEWBU.jpg

http://portlandposterpole.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/03/lily-allen-purple.jpg

http://concertposter.org/-concertposters-may09/gnr-07-tour.jpg

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Before starting a poster :

#1 Go the band’s myspace page and listen to their music.

#2 Check The band’s website and do searchs at

http://www.deviantart.com/ and

http://gigposters.com

To see the type of images used to promote the band.

#3 Harmonize your ideas with what will work for the band’s image and fans.

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Tips for making posters

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– Have a large supply of different fonts

see http://www.dafont.com/ for free fonts

Sources for images of bands.

http://www.rcamusicgrouppress.com/index.php

http://www.nastylittleman.com/index.php

http://www.anti.com/press/

http://www.230publicity.com/bandroster.html

http://www.concertedefforts.com/

http://www.shorefire.com/

http://blueghostpublicity.com/bands.html

http://girlieaction.com/

http://www.madisonhousepublicity.com/

http://www.wma.com/0/cta/music/contemporary/roster/

http://www.frontiertouring.com.au/

http://www.epitaph.com/photos/

http://www.wolftrap.org/Media_and_Newsroom/Photos_for_Publication.aspx

http://www.highroadtouring.com/artists/

http://www.bighassle.com/publicity/index.html

http://www.bluerose-records.de/cgi-bin/press-service/Bilder.asp?FormName=Search&FormAction=search&category_id=

http://www.mlk.com/event-kalender

http://www.subpop.com/artists/

http://www.workhardpr.com/Archive/archive.html

http://www.warnerbrosrecords.com/artists

http://www.interscope.com/artists/

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Our $20 Lifetime Buy Back Guarantee on all our concert posters.

The poster you purchased qualifies for our $20 lifetime buyback guarantee. There are several reasons we do this:

** Your poster is rare. It is one of only 300 or so printed for that particular concert. Almost all of those 300 posters were hung around town (at the venue, in record stores, shop windows and on telephone poles), and were subsequently trashed, your poster is one of the few that are remaining.

Over the years, that fact means our posters should increase in value dramatically. For almost all our posters, there are only 10 to 40 left in the world.

—- Compare that to art print silkscreen posters, which have printings of 300 to 1000, and all of those posters are just dumped on the public market.

** Our posters are authentic advertising posters used to advertise that concert. Unlike the silkscreen art print posters that are prevalent today, our posters were actually used to advertise the show.

Silkscreen art print posters are designed and printed solely for sale to the public, Silkscreen art print posters are NOT used to actually advertise the show. This reduces the resale prices of silkscreen art print posters because most real collectors consider them to be nothing more than gray-market merch, they are not authentic advertising posters.

In addition to that, because the entire runs of the silkscreen art print posters are dumped on the public all at once, the market is flooded with them, driving DOWN their resale prices. In comparison, our posters are authentic, rare and we back their resale with our own $$$, to the amount of $20 each.

***We support the aftermarket for our posters with the $20 buy back guarantee, We are the ONLY poster seller in the entire world doing this. We back the re-sale market for our posters with our own $$. We do this because our posters are rare, authentic and they WILL rise in value over the years.

To use the $20 lifetime buy back guarantee, simply mail the poster back to us, in good condition (the same condition in which we delivered it to you) and we will send you a $20 check the next day.

Portland Poster Pole

1731 W.Burnside #5

Portland , Or. 97209

portlandposterpole@yahoo.com

(503)-975-6358

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