Only girls behind the decks — Rzeszów International Music Poster Biennale
Nelli Kamaeva
Poster
A club-night poster — “Only girls behind the decks” — arguing that a flyer can carry the whole noise of a room through pure visual communication.
“Only girls behind the decks” began as a club night and turned into an argument about what a poster is for. A good poster makes the viewer think, not just the maker; its first job is to carry information, and its real power is visual communication — colour, composition, typography, a clear graphic metaphor doing the talking.
The poster pushes that hard: a torn, RGB-split column of red and cyan rips down the centre like a dropped signal, with the essentials — ONLY GIRLS BEHIND THE DECKS, 15.04, 23:00, and the line-up — held legible in the noise. The distortion is the sound made visible.
It was selected for the first edition of the Rzeszów International Music Poster Biennale in Poland — a competition built entirely around music posters, founded by Patrycja Longawa, on the premise that music unites where the news divides. Fitting, for a country with arguably the deepest poster tradition in the world.
Links & coverage. Official: https://rzeszowimpb.com/ · https://www.instagram.com/rzeszow_impb/ · https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=61576457275570 · https://rzeszowimpb.com/patrycja-longawa/ · https://nck.pl/en/patronaty/patronaty-honorowe/i-miedzynarodowe-biennale-plakatu-muzycznego-w-rzeszowie-. Press & coverage: PosterTerritory — https://www.posterterritory.com/1st-international-music-poster-biennale-in-rzeszow/ · Rzeszów News (local newspaper, Polish) — https://rzeszow-news.pl/rzeszow-gospodarzem-pierwszego-na-swiecie-biennale-plakatu-muzycznego/.
“Only girls behind the decks” began as a club night and turned into an argument about what a poster is for. A good poster makes the viewer think, not just the maker; its first job is to carry information, and its real power is visual communication — colour, composition, typography, a clear graphic metaphor doing the talking.
The poster pushes that hard: a torn, RGB-split column of red and cyan rips down the centre like a dropped signal, with the essentials — ONLY GIRLS BEHIND THE DECKS, 15.04, 23:00, and the line-up — held legible in the noise. The distortion is the sound made visible.
It was selected for the first edition of the Rzeszów International Music Poster Biennale in Poland — a competition built entirely around music posters, founded by Patrycja Longawa, on the premise that music unites where the news divides. Fitting, for a country with arguably the deepest poster tradition in the world.
Links & coverage. Official: https://rzeszowimpb.com/ · https://www.instagram.com/rzeszow_impb/ · https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=61576457275570 · https://rzeszowimpb.com/patrycja-longawa/ · https://nck.pl/en/patronaty/patronaty-honorowe/i-miedzynarodowe-biennale-plakatu-muzycznego-w-rzeszowie-. Press & coverage: PosterTerritory — https://www.posterterritory.com/1st-international-music-poster-biennale-in-rzeszow/ · Rzeszów News (local newspaper, Polish) — https://rzeszow-news.pl/rzeszow-gospodarzem-pierwszego-na-swiecie-biennale-plakatu-muzycznego/.
Only girls behind the decks — Rzeszów International Music Poster Biennale
Nelli Kamaeva
